GitLab CI Warning: "git": executable file not found in $PATH

WARNING: current commit information was not captured by the build: git was not found in the system: exec: "git": executable file not found in $PATH

I saw this WARNING sail by while I was watching a Docker build process run on my GitLab CI pipeline. The build wasn’t failing but wasn’t completing cleanly. The GitLab runner image being used for this pipeline was:

image: python:3.9-slim

The solve came after a bit of experimentation and found that I needed to edit my .gitlab-ci.yml file to include the following:

before_script:
  - apk add --update --no-cache git

That edit solved the Warning and cleaned up the pipeline. Noted.

pip list - Shows Installed Packages and Updates

Version 1.3 (2013-03-07) of pip saw the addition of "list", for listing currently installed packages and the latest version of those packages that is available.  Nice.

$ pip list --outdated
google-api-python-client (Current: 1.0 Latest: 1.1)
pysolr (Current: 3.0.5 Latest: 3.0.6)

Move over freeze...​

Django Template's "with" Statement

You can use Django template's "with" statement to calculate values. This is an elegant approach as it removes the need for many "if" statements.

Example: Put a border around a specific kind of image on a page.

Using the conditional style:

​Using the calculation style: