If you are a software developer or engineer, then you know it can be really helpful to have sample data. The data doesn’t have to be real data either. Instead, the data can be fake. For example, if you are writing a program that will process HIPAA data, then you won’t be using actual data […]
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Python 3.10 is coming out next month, so now is the time to start talking about the new features that it will contain. The core developers of Python recently announced that they are adding parenthesized context managers, which is a bugfix to a bug where Python 3.9 and earlier did not support parentheses for continuation
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Data visualizations are an important method of sharing your data with others. Some people refer to visualizations as plots, charts, or graphs. These names are synonymous in this article. Python has many 3rd party packages that do data visualizations. In fact, there are so many that it can be somewhat overwhelming. One of the oldest
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This week we welcome Déborah Mesquita as our PyDev of the Week! Déborah is a content writer at Real Python. You can see what she is up to over on her website or by checking out her GitHub profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know Déborah better! Can you tell us a little about
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When you create a graphical user interface for your amazing program, you want to add a little bit of yourself to the application. One way to do that is to use images as buttons. While some people find these types of buttons unintuitive because they don’t look like buttons, it is a legitimate way to
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You learned how to create a file search GUI with wxPython in an earlier tutorial. In this article, you will learn how to create a text search utility with wxPython. If you’d like to learn more about creating GUI applications, you should check out my book Creating GUI Applications with wxPython on Leanpub, Gumroad, or
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Application developers are always working with files. You create them whenever you write a new script or application. You write reports in Microsoft Word, you save emails or download books or music. Files are everywhere. Your web browser downloads lots of little files to make your browsing experience faster. When you write programs, you have
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Have you ever needed to search for a file on your computer? Most operating systems have a way to do this. Windows Explorer has a search function and there’s also a search built-in to the Start Menu now. Other operating systems like Mac and Linux are similar. There are also applications that you can download
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Do you need to work measurements often? What about converting from one unit of measurement to another? There is a Python package called Pint that makes working with quantities easy to do. Pint allows you do arithmetic operations between a numerical value and a quantity as well. You can see the many different unit types
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This week we welcome Joshua Ebner (@Josh_Ebner) as our PyDev of the Week. Joshua trains people in data science at Sharp Sight. Let’s take some time to get to know Joshua better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): Professionally, I own a data science training company, Sharp Sight. My background
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This week’s PyDev of the Week is Paulus Schoutsen (@balloob). He is the founder of Home Assistant, an open source home automation tool / package. You can see what else Paulus is up to over on his GitHub profile. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Paulus better! Can you tell us a
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Texas Instruments announced that they are adding a new graphing calculator called TI-84 Plus CE Python. The TI-84 Plus uses CircuitPython rather than the standard Python that most developers are aware of. CircuitPython is made by AdaFruit for embedded devices, like a calculator. You can read more about CircuitPython being added to the calculator over
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This week we welcome Daniel Zingaro as our PyDev of the Week! Daniel is the author of Learn to Code by Solving Problems: A Python Programming Primer and Algorithmic Thinking from No Starch Books. If you’d like to see what else Daniel is up to, you should visit his website. Daniel even braved sky-diving once!
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OpenPyXL gives you the ability to style your cells in many different ways. Styling cells will give your spreadsheets pizazz! Your spreadsheets can have some pop and zing to them that will help differentiate them from others. However, don’t go overboard! If every cell had a different font and color, your spreadsheet would look like
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This week we welcome Patrick Arminio (@patrick91) as our PyDev of the Week! Patrick works on Strawberry GraphQL, a Python GraphQL library based on dataclasses. You can catch up with Patrick over on his website. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know Patrick better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education,
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