Over the last two days I’ve continued working on the photo album scripts and made some good progress…
Successes
- Changed the format of the index so that it’s based on a table. This makes it so the photos are arranged in rows, rather than in one column vertically - much more user friendly!
- I changed several hard-coded values in the HTML generator script to parameters, making the script easier to re-use
- I added code to allow both scripts to be run either as main or imported as a module, and by doing so better understood this process:
if __name__ == "__main__": # if the script is being run as the main code \\ makeIndex('./photoSite', '.jpg') # run the code with these values for the parameters - To run the code with other values for parameters, I ran Python in the terminal and imported the script:
python3 #run Python \\ import makeIndex # import name of script without '.py' makeIndex.makeIndex('./other-photos', 'jpg') # call function with desired values as parameters - I create a repo for the project on GitHub (private for now). This is now my first original project I’ll be using version control on, hooray!
Challenges
- When I was researching how to format the index using a table, I read that this is an outdated method of doing page layout, which folks are generally advised to avoid. While I generally like to use best practices in my work, in this case I stuck with the table, as it was good practice for me and got me the results I was looking for. I hope to learn better ways to format pages down the line!
Future work
- I’d likr to better understand how to format docstrings to describe useage, parameters, etc.