You can use many great tools to help you in your software development journey. One such tool is pre-commit, a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks. You use pre-commit to run one or more tools before allowing you to commit your code locally. For example, you might run the Flake8 linter or the Ruff formatter […]
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Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from me to you! I have been giving away hundreds of Python books and courses for Christmas for the last couple of years! From now until Christmas, I will be giving away hundreds more. You can start learning Python for free using my books or courses. All you have to
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When you are working on your personal or work projects in Python, you usually want to have a way to enforce code standards. You can use tools like Flake8, PyLint or Ruff to lint your code. You might use Mypy to verify type checking. There are lots of other tools at your disposal. But it
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JupyterLab, the latest iteration of the Jupyter Notebook, is a versatile tool that empowers you to share your code in an easily understandable format. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Jupyter Notebooks or variations of the Notebook architecture for any or all of the following: teaching presentations learning a computer language numerical
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday are nearly here, so it’s time to do a Python sale! All my books and courses are 35% off until December 4th if you use this code: BF24 at checkout. You can learn about any of the following topics in my books and courses: Basic Python (Python 101) PDF Processing
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Textual is a great Python package for creating a lightweight, powerful, text-based user interface. That means you can create a GUI in your terminal with Python without learning curses! But what happens when you encounter some problems that require debugging your application? A TUI takes over your terminal, which means you cannot see anything from
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Textual-cogs is a collection of Textual dialogs that you can use in your Textual application. You can see a quick demo of the dialogs below: Dialogs included so far: Generic MessageDialog – shows messages to the user SaveFileDialog – gives the user a way to select a location to save a file SingleChoiceDialog – gives the user a series
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Reading and writing files is a basic task that most software applications need to do. You will also find that you sometimes need to read and write files to a remote machine or perhaps run commands on a remote machine as well. Python is well-suited for this type of activity using tools such as Paramiko.
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Textual v0.80.0 was released today, and it included the brand-new MaskedInput widget. If you have used other GUI toolkits, such as wxPython, you might already be familiar with a masked input widget. These widgets allow you to control the user’s input based on a mask string that the developer provides when instantiating the widget. Let’s spend
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My Kickstarter for my latest Python book is still going on for another eight days. Now is a great time to pre-order the book as well as get my other Python books. The project is fully funded, and I added a stretch goal. Stretch Goal The stretch goal is $5000 or 350 backers. If we reach
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The Python programming language has thousands of wonderful third-party packages available on the Python Package Index. One of those packages is TerminalTextEffects (TTE), a terminal visual effects engine. Here are the features that TerminalTextEffects provides, according to their documentation: Xterm 256 / RGB hex color support Complex character movement via Paths, Waypoints, and motion easing,
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My latest Python book is now available for pre-order on Kickstarter. JupyterLab, the latest iteration of the Jupyter Notebook, is a versatile tool for sharing code in an easily understandable format. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Jupyter Notebooks or variations of the Notebook architecture for any or all of the following:
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Have you ever wanted to create a plot or graph in your terminal? Okay, maybe you haven’t, but now that you know you can, you want to! Python has the plotext package for plotting in your terminal. However, while that package is amazing all on its own, there is another package called textual-plotext that wraps
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The Textual package is a great way to create GUI-like applications with Python in your terminal. These are known as text-based user interfaces or TUIs. Textual has many different widgets built-in to the framework. One of those widgets is the ProgressBar. If you need to show the progress of a download or long-running process, then
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Have you ever needed a progress bar in your Python command-line application? One great way of creating a progress bar is to use the alive-progress package created by Rogério Sampaio de Almeida! Alive progress provides multiple different types of progress bars in your terminal or IPython REPL session. The alive progress package will work with
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