Welcome to Astutus¶
Astutus is a repository to demonstrate the range and depth of my python development skills. It also serves as a useful codebase from which I can search and reuse code as needed. Finally, it serves as repository of things that I’ve learned and want to be able to efficiently reuse.
Git repository¶
The code can be found at https://github.com/rich-dobbs-13440/astutus.
Why is it called Astutus?¶
The same name should be used for a repository as for the python package. In both cases, the name should be short, memorable, and easily searchable.
For example, flask is a good name, because when searching on the internet for software, it is easy to make a good search, just by searching for python flask. In contrast, robot is a poor name for a testing framework, since there are a lot of things related to robot and robots that might use python.
So the first thing to do in selecting a package name is to to do a search. In this case, I started with animals in Colorado. This lead to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring-tailed_cat. Which has a species name of Bassariscus astutus. Hmmm. Maybe astutus would be a good package name. So search for astutus. Essentially no hits for software related items.
As a bonus: Here is the meaning in Latin: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/astutus
Meaning: shrewd, sagacious, expert, astute.
Sounds wonderful.