Generate Your Text Files With Python Using Cog

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• Episode: Generate Your Text Files With Python Using Cog
• Website: The Python Podcast.__init__
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• Duration: 00:50:32
• Published: 2022-01-14 00:27

Developers hate wasting effort on manual processes when we can write code to do it instead. Cog is a tool to manage the work of automating the creation of text inside another file by executing arbitrary Python code. In this episode Ned Batchelder shares the story of why he created Cog in the first place, some of the interesting ways that he uses it in his daily work, and the unique challenges of maintaining a project with a small audience and a well defined scope.