I had a use-case where I needed to create a class that had an attribute that was a Python list. Seems simple, right? The part that made it complicated is that I needed to do something special when anything was appended to that attribute. Watching for attribute changes don’t work the same way for lists […]
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This week we welcome Sarah Gibson (@drsarahlgibson) as our PyDev of the Week! Sarah is a core developer for Binder, JupyterHub, and The Turing Way. You can see what else she is contributing to over on GitHub. Sarah also maintains a blog. Let’s spend some time getting to know Sarah better! Can you tell us
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This week we welcome Tzu-ping Chung (@uranusjr) as our PyDev of the Week! Tzu-ping is a member of Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) and a maintainer of pip and pipx. You can see what else Tzu-ping has been contributing to over on GitHub. He also maintains a website. Let’s take some time to get to know
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This week we welcome Yury Selivanov (@1st1) as our PyDev of the Week! Yury is the founder of CEO of EdgeDB. Yury is also a core developer of the Python programming language. One of his most well known recent contributions is adding async to Python in PEP 492. You can see what else he has
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This week we chatted with Talley Lambert (@TalleyJLambert) who is a microscopist and Python enthusiast at Harvard Medical School. You can learn more about what Talley is up to and see his publications on his website. Let’s spend some time getting to know Talley better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education,
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This week we welcome Pedro Pregueiro (@pedropregueiro) as our PyDev of the Week! Pedro is an entrepreneur who has co-founded several companies. He is also an author and contributor at Real Python. If you have some time, check out Pedro’s website. You can also see what he’s up to over on GitHub or connect with
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This week, Mike Driscoll (author of this website), is on the PyBites Podcast. It’s titled Episode #043 – Becoming a prolific Python content provider You can listen to the podcast on PyBites. In the podcast, the hosts and I talk about: how Mike got into programming and Python (and the importance of community), how Mike
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This week we welcome Martha Teye (@teye_martha) as our PyDev of the Week! Martha talks about her first big Python project in this YouTube video where she creates a chat bot. You can connect with Martha on LinkedIn. Let’s spend some time getting to know Martha better! Can you tell us a little about yourself
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I am joining some of my fellow indie content creators to create a FREE Python book bundle for the month of October 2021! The Indie Python Extravaganza! A collection of books that will help you to improve your knowledge of the Python programming language one page at a time. Join four indie authors in a
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Software developers have to work with data. More often than not, the data that you work with will need to be available to multiple developers as well as multiple users at once. The typical solution for this type of situation is to use a database. Databases hold data in a tabular format, which means that
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When you first get started as a programmer or software developer, you usually start by writing code that prints to your console or standard out. A lot of students are also starting out by writing front-end programs, which are typically websites written with HTML, JavaScript and CSS. However, most beginners do not learn how to
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a very popular way to share documents across multiple platforms. The goal of the PDF is to create a document that will look the same on multiple platforms and that will print the same (or very similar) on various printers. The format was originally developed by Adobe but has
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This week we welcome Tony Roberts as our PyDev of the Week! Tony is the creator and maintainer of PyXLL, a paid add-in for Microsoft Excel that lets you script Excel using the Python programming language. You can see what else Tony is working on over on GitHub. Tony writes on Medium and the Towards
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The Python programming language comes with its own built-in Integrated Development Environment (IDE) called IDLE. The name, IDLE, supposedly came from the actor, Eric Idle, who was a part of the Monty Python troupe, which is what Python itself is named after. IDLE comes with Python on Windows and some Linux variants. You may need
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There are many common file types that you will need to work with as a software developer. One such format is the CSV file. CSV stands for “Comma-Separated Values” and is a text file format that uses a comma as a delimiter to separate values from one another. Each row is its own record and
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