This week we welcome Mary Chester-Kadwell (@marycktech) as our PyDev of the Week! Mary is a software engineer at Cambridge University Library. You can see some of what she’s up to over on Github. I think you’ll find her journey into Python really interesting. So without further ado, let’s find out more about Mary! Can […]
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The business world uses Microsoft Office. Their spreadsheet software solution, Microsoft Excel, is especially popular. Excel is used to store tabular data, create reports, graph trends, and much more. Before diving into working with Excel with Python, let’s clarify some special terminology: Spreadsheet or Workbook – The file itself (.xls or .xlsx). Worksheet or Sheet
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This week we welcome Kevin Thomas (@mytechnotalent) as our PyDev of the Week. Kevin is the author of Python for Kids, which is “a comprehensive and FREE Online Python Development course FOR KIDS utilizing an official BBC micro:bit Development Board”. Let’s spend some time getting to know Kevin better! Can you tell us a little
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This week we welcome William Horton (@hortonhearsafoo) as our PyDev of the Week! William is a Senior Software Engineer at Compass and has spoken at several local Python conferences. He is a contributor to PyTorch and fastai. Let’s spend some time getting to know William better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies,
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This week we welcome Sunita Dwivedi as our PyDev of the Week! Sunita works for the DISH Network. She is active with PyDEN, the Denver, CO Python users group as well as PyColorado. Let’s take some time to learn more about Sunita! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I live
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ReportLab’s standard built-in fonts when generating PDFs with Python.
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This week we welcome Sean Tibor (@smtibor) as our PyDev of the Week! Sean is the co-host of the Teaching Python podcast. He has been a guest on other podcasts, such as Test & Code and is the founder of Red Reef Digital. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know Sean better!
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This week we welcome Frank Valcarcel (@fmdfrank) as our PyDev of the Week! He is the cofounder of Cuttlesoft. If you’d like to see what projects Frank is working on, head on over to Github. Let’s take some time to learn more about Frank! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc):
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to drag an image into your #wxPython application and display it to your user. If you enjoy this video, you may want to check out my book, Creating GUI Applications with wxPython, available on Leanpub and Amazon.
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This week we welcome William Cox as our PyDev of the Week. William is a data scientist who has spoken at a few Python conferences. He maintains a blog where you can catch up on what’s new with him Let’s spend a few moments getting to know William better! Can you tell us a little
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Recently CodingNomads invited me on their Tech Talk series. CodingNomads does online code camps for Python and Java. The Tech Talks are a series of videos that teach or talk about tech. In my case, I got to talk about my favorite programming language, Python! The first talk I did was on wxPython. In this
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to add an image to your panel so that you have a background image to put your widgets on.
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This week we welcome Jim Anderson (@jimande75053775) as our PyDev of the Week! Jim is a contributing writer for Real Python. You can see some of the things that Jim works on in his spare time over on Github. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Jim better! Can you tell us a
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In this video tutorial, you will learn how to add icons to your wxPython application’s title bar. This is a nice feature to add to your application to give your program some branding.
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JavaScript Object Notation, more commonly known as JSON, is a lightweight data interchange format inspired by JavaScript object literal syntax. JSON is easy for humans to read and write. It is also easy for computers to parse and generate. JSON is used for storing and exchanging data in much the same way that XML is
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