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Python Automation Libraries (Video)

beginner, Python, Video / Mike / May 25, 2022

Learn about some of the automation packages that you can use in Python in this handy video. Links are also provided here underneath the video. Web Automation Packages Selenium – https://www.selenium.dev/ Playright – https://playwright.dev/python/docs/intro ScraPy – https://scrapy.org/ BeautifulSoup – https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ GUI Automation Packages SikuliX – http://sikulix.com/ pywinauto – https://pywinauto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ PyAutoGUI – https://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Excel Automation OpenPyXL […]

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PyDev of the Week: Brian Skinn

PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / May 23, 2022

This week we welcome Brian Skinn (@btskinn) as our PyDev of the Week! Brian maintains the from python import logging RSS feed on Python news / personal blog. Brian is active in the Python community as well. Let’s spend some time getting to know Brian better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies,

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How to do a Simple Cache with Python and functools (Video)

intermediate, Python / Mike / May 20, 2022 / Python

Learn how to use Python’s amazing standard library to add caching to your functions. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to use functools.cache to add caching to a function If you’d like to learn more about the functools module, you can check out this other video of mine:

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How to Create a Command-line Application with argparse

beginner, intermediate, Python / Mike / May 19, 2022 / Python

When you are creating an application, you will usually want to be able to tell your application how to do something. There are two popular methods for accomplishing this task. You can make your application accept command-line arguments or you can create a graphical user interface. Some applications support both. Command-line interfaces are helpful when

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PyDev of the Week: Raza (Rython) Zaidi

1 Comment / PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / May 16, 2022 / Python

This week we welcome Raza Zaidi (@razacodes) as our PyDev of the Week! Raza is a content creator on Twitter and YouTube. You can learn about Python, data science, Django, and more on Raza’s YouTube channel. Check it out when you get a chance! Now let’s spend a few moments getting to know Raza better!

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PyDev of the Week: Mason Egger

PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / May 9, 2022 / Python

This week we welcome Mason Egger (@masonegger) as our PyDev of the Week! Mason is an organizer of PyTexas and a developer advocate at Gretel. Mason also maintains a Python website where you can see what Mason has been up to. Let’s take a few minutes to get to know Mason better! Can you tell

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Python 101 – Learn All About Functions (Video)

1 Comment / beginner, Python, Video / Mike / May 7, 2022 / Python, Python 101

In this video tutorial you will learn the following: Creating a function Calling a function Passing arguments Type hinting your arguments Passing keyword arguments Required and default arguments *args and **kwargs Positional-only arguments Scope Related Merch Python 101 Video Series Python 101 – 2nd Edition: Amazon (paperback / Kindle) Gumroad (eBook – PDF, mobi, epub)

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Announcing: The Python 101 Video Course

beginner, Education, intermediate, Video / Mike / May 3, 2022 / Course, Python

I am happy to announce that I am creating a Python 101 video course, which is based on Python 101: 2nd Edition. The course will eventually include videos that cover the chapters in the books. It is launching with 13 videos that run 168+ minutes! The following link will give you $10 off! Purchase Now

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PyDev of the Week: Jyotika Singh

PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / May 2, 2022 / Python

The PyDev of the Week this week is Jyotika Singh (@JyotikaSingh_). Jyotika is the maintainer of pyAudioProcessing and a speaker at multiple conferences. You can check out what Jyotika is up to by going to her GitHub profile. Let’s spend a few minutes getting to know Jyotika better! Can you tell us a little about

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Python 101 – The REPL (Video)

beginner, Python, Video / Mike / April 27, 2022 / Python

In this tutorial, you will learn what a REPL is and why it is useful. I also show you a couple of alternative REPL environments in this tutorial, such as IDLE and IPython. Related Articles An Intro to Python Editors Python 101 – An Intro to IDLE

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Python 101 – Creating Multiple Threads

advanced, intermediate, Python / Mike / April 26, 2022 / Python

Concurrency is a big topic in programming. The concept of concurrency is to run multiple pieces of code at once. Python has a couple of different solutions that are built-in to its standard library. You can use threads or processes. In this chapter, you will learn about using threads. When you run your own code,

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PyDev of the Week: Julien Palard

1 Comment / PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / April 25, 2022 / Python

This week we welcome Julien Palard (@sizeof) as our PyDev of the Week! Julien is a core developer of the Python programming language and a Python trainer. Julien is also the creator of HackInScience, a Python learning platform as well as an organizer for AFPy, the French Python user group. Julien did the French translation

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Python 101 – Intro to Testing with Python and unittest (Video)

intermediate, Python, Testing / Mike / April 20, 2022 / Python, Testing

In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of testing with Python and the built-in unittest module You can also read the article that this video is based on at Mouse vs Python here: Python 3 Testing: An Intro to unittest

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PyDev of the Week: Mirko Galimberti

PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / April 18, 2022

This week we welcome Mirko Galimberti (@M1sl6) as our PyDev of the Week! Mirko is a core developer of Kivy, a cross-platform GUI framework for Python that targets iOS and Android, but works on Linux, Mac, and Windows too. Mirko also has a website, which is a great way to see what he is up

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Python 101 – Intro to Graphing with Python and Matplotlib (Video)

Python, Video / Mike / April 14, 2022 / graph, Python

Python has lots of data visualization packages available to it. One of the most popular is Matplotlib. In this video tutorial, will be learning about the following topics: Creating a Simple Line Chart with PyPlot Creating a Bar Chart Creating a Pie Chart Adding Labels Adding Titles to Plots Creating a Legend Showing Multiple Figures

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