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Effective Python Third Edition

Today my copy of Effective Python Third Edition arrived. The book by Brett Slatkin has 125 specific ways to write better Python.

I browsed the book a bit and it looks very good! I like how the program listings have colors. After I have finished the Python Certification course on freeCodeCamp I want either start in this book or continue with the 2^nd edition of Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho. I have reread the first two chapters of the latter.

• book
• python

Changing the margin with Pandoc

Yesterday I learned how to generate a PDF file with the official Pandoc LaTeX image. The resulting PDF looked good, but has a huge margin around the body of text. Today I created a header.tex file with the following contents:

\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{margin=1in}

Next, I ran the following command:

docker run --rm \
  -v "$(pwd):/data" \
  -u $(id -u):$(id -g) \
  pandoc/latex freecodecamp.md \
  -H header.tex \
  -o freecodecamp.pdf &&
  open freecodecamp.pdf

And with this command the margin was shrunk to 1"; much better.

• docker
• pdf
• pandoc