This week we welcome Stacy Morse (@geekgirlbeta) as our PyDev of the Week! Stacy loves Python and has been writing about it on her blog as well as giving talks at various user groups and conferences. You can catch her at PyCon 2018 in Ohio this year where she will be talking about code reviews. […]
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The Qt Team recently posted that Qt will now be officially supporting the PySide2 project, which they are calling “Qt for Python”. It will be a complete port of the original PySide, which only supported Qt 4. PySide2 supports Qt 5. Qt for Python will have the following license types: GPL, LGPL and commercial. PySide2
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This week we welcome Andrew Knight (@automationpanda) as our PyDev of the Week! Andrew is an entrepreneur who co-founded Reformed Menswear and the site was created using Python and Django. If you have a moment, check out his Github profile to find out what Andrew has been contributing to. Andrew also has programming blog that
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ReportLab has native support for generating SVGs, but not for embedding SVGs in their PDFs. Fortunately, Dinu Gherman created the svglib package, a pure-Python package that can read SVG files and convert them to other formats that ReportLab can use. The official website for svglib is on Github. The svglib package will work on Linux,
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The PyPDF2 package allows you to do a lot of useful operations on existing PDFs. In this article, we will learn how to split a single PDF into multiple smaller ones. We will also learn how to take a series of PDFs and join them back together into a single PDF. Getting Started PyPDF2 doesn’t
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There are lots of PDF related packages for Python. One of my favorite is PyPDF2. You can use it to extract metadata, rotate pages, split or merge PDFs and more. It’s kind of a Swiss-army knife for existing PDFs. In this article we will learn how to extract basic information about a PDF using PyPDF2
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Anaconda put out a press release this morning that states the following: “Anaconda, the most popular Python data science platform provider, today introduced the Anaconda Data Science Certification, giving data scientists a way to verify their proficiency, and organizations an independent standard for qualifying current and prospective data science experts.” Anaconda is in a non-exclusive
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This week we welcome Edward Ream as our PyDev of the Week! Edward is the creator of the Leo (Leonine Editor with Outlines) text editor / outliner. He has been using Python since 2001. You can see what Edward has been working on over on Github. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better!
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This week we welcome Eric Snow (@ericsnowcrntly) as our PyDev of the Week! Eric is a core developer of the Python language. You can check out his blog where he post sporadically of his Github profile where you can see what he’s currently up to. Let’s spend some time getting to know Eric better! Can
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Last week I was honored to be a part of the Talk Python to Me Podcast. During the podcast, we talked about the history of Python as well as its future. We also talked about the books I have written and how I used Kickstarter to connect with my readers. We spent some time going
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This week we welcome Yusuke Tsutsumi as our PyDev of the Week! Yusuke is a web developer for Zillow and has been working on open source projects for several years. He has a blog where you can learn more about him as well as various programming languages. You can also check out what projects he’s been
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Python added the enum module to the standard library in version 3.4. The Python documentation describes an enum like this: An enumeration is a set of symbolic names (members) bound to unique, constant values. Within an enumeration, the members can be compared by identity, and the enumeration itself can be iterated over. Let’s look at
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This week we welcome Elias Dorneles as our PyDev of the Week! Elias works on the tooling of the Beeware Suite and contributes to several other projects too, all of which you can see on Github. He also has a programming blog that you can check out. Let’s take some time to learn more about
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When I first started this blog, ten years ago today, I never thought I would be blogging about Python for a decade. In fact, the very first post wasn’t even about the Python language itself, but about me going to PyCon in Chicago. In fact, I wrote 7 articles about that first PyCon event before
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Python 3.6 added another way to do string interpolation that is called “f-strings” or Formatted string literals (PEP 498). The idea behind f-strings is to make string interpolation simpler. To create an f-string, you just need to prefix the string with the letter “f”. The string itself can be formatted in much the same way
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