Learn the basics of Classes and get your first taste of Object Oriented Programming in Python in this tutorial You will learn about: Class creation self — what it means Subclass creation Polymorphism Want to learn more? Buy my book, Python 101 – 2nd Edition: Leanpub (PDF, epub, mobi) Gumroad (PDF, epub, mobi) Amazon (Paperback […]
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Learn how to use 3 lines of code to transform a CSV file to Excel using Python and the pandas package! Also demonstrates how to fix issues when things go wrong!
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Did you know you can serve files on your local network using Python? It’s easy when you use the built-in HTTP server! You can even use this technique to transfer files to your phone! Learn more about this topic in this short video!
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Functions are reusable pieces of code. Anytime you find yourself writing the same code twice, that code should probably go in a function. For example, Python has many built-in functions, such as dir() and sum(). You also imported the math module and used its square root function, sqrt(). In this tutorial you will learn about:
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This week we welcome Luiz Gustavo Martins (@gusthema) as our PyDev of the Week! Luiz has been posting a lot of Python content on Twitter lately, so if you like to learn Python or machine learning, you should check him out. Let’s spend some time getting to know Luiz better! Can you tell us a
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Learn how to turn text into speech on Mac OSX with the Python programming language
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Learn how to layout your widgets in Kivy, a mobile GUI framework for Python. Kivy is a cross-platform GUI framework that also works on iOS and Android. The examples in this video are based on the code from Kivy 101: How to Use BoxLayouts
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This week we welcome Jürgen Gmach (@jugmac00) as our PyDev of the Week! Jürgen is a maintainer of the tox automation project. You can see what else Jürgen is up to over on his website. You can also check out Jürgen’s code over on GitHub or Launchpad. Let’s spend some time getting to know Jürgen
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In this video, Mike Driscoll talks about what to expect in Python’s newest release, which is coming in Fall 2022 Better Performance Improved error messages Exception groups New type hints The new `tomllib` module See the Python website for full details
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In this tutorial, I will talk about some of the many different data science packages you can use in Python. Packages mentioned: pandas, matplotlib, numpy, scipy, mahotas, OpenCV, Keras, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Theano, Bokeh, Plotly, Scikit-learn, Scikit-image
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This week we welcome Allen Downey (@AllenDowney) as the PyDev of the Week! Allen is the author of Think Python, Modeling and Simulation in Python, Think Java: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, and several other books. Allen is also a professor at Olin College in Massachusetts. You can catch up with Allen by
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Learn about some of the many Python web frameworks that are available to you in this video. Web frameworks mentioned in this video Django – https://www.djangoproject.com/ Flask – https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.1.x/ Pyramid – https://trypyramid.com/ FastAPI – https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/ CherryPy – https://docs.cherrypy.dev/en/latest/ TurboGears – https://turbogears.org/ Web2py – http://www.web2py.com/ Bottle – https://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/ Python Content Management Systems Plone – https://plone.org/ Django
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Learn how to create different types of context managers using Python’s contextlib module! You can learn more in the contextlib documentation. Related Articles Python’s with Statement and Context Managers Python 3.10 – Parenthesized Context Managers wxPython’s Context Managers Python 201 – An Intro to Context Managers
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Context managers are a handy way to open and close files, dialogs, thread-locks and so much more! Check out this short tutorial that introduces you to the concepts of context managers by Mike Driscoll Related Articles Python’s with Statement and Context Managers Python 3.10 – Parenthesized Context Managers wxPython’s Context Managers Python 201 – An
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This week we welcome Denny Perez (@dennyperez18) as our PyDev of the Week! Denny works at nventive and is very active in the Python community, including helping to organize PyCon itself. You can see what Denny is up to on Denny’s GitHub page. Let’s take some time to get to know Denny better! Can you
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