Last time we learned how to get Flask set up. In this article we will learn how to add a database to our music data website. As you might recall, Flask is a micro-web-framework. That means it doesn’t come with an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) like Django does. If you want to add database interactivity, […]
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The Flask 101 series is my attempt at learning the Flask microframework for Python. For those who haven’t heard of it, Flask is micro web framework for creating web applications in Python. According to their website, Flask is based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions. For this series of articles, I wanted to create
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This week we welcome Anthony Tuininga as our PyDev of the Week! Anthony is the creator of the cx_Freeze library among several others in the cx Suite. You can get a feel for what he’s currently working on over on Github. Let’s take some time to get to know Anthony better! Can you tell us
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This week we welcome Charles R. Harris as our PyDev of the Week. Charles is a core developer of NumPy, one of Python’s most popular scientific computing libraries. He has been working on NumPy since it was still called Numeric. He is also a core developer of SciPy. Let’s take some time to get to
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This week we welcome Ruud van der Ham as our PyDev of the Week! Ruud is the creator of the Salabim project. Let’s take some time getting to know him a bit better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I have always worked in the port industry as a professional
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This week we welcome Adrian Rosebrock (@PyImageSearch) as our PyDev of the Week. Adrian is the author of several books on Python and OpenCV. He is also the author of PyImageSearch.com, a very popular Python blog that focuses on computer vision. Let’s take some time to get to know him a bit better! Can you
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I was recently asked about how to implement drag-and-drop of items in a wx.ListCtrl or in ObjectListView. Unfortunately neither control has this built-in although I did find an article on the wxPython wiki that demonstrated one way to do drag-and-drop of the items in a ListCtrl. However I did think that implementing some buttons to
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A couple of months ago, Brian Okken asked me if I would be interested in reading his book, Python Testing with pytest. I have been interested in learning more about the pytest package for a while, so I agreed to take a look. I also liked that the publisher was The Pragmatic Programmers, which I’ve
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This week we welcome Bert JW Regeer as our PyDev of the Week! Bert is a core developer of the Pyramid web framework. You can check our his experience over on his website or go check out his Github profile to see what projects he’s been working on lately. Let’s take a few moments to
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This week we welcome Bruce Eckel as our PyDev of the Week! Bruce is the author of several books including Thinking in Java, Thinking in C++ and Thinking in Python among others. He also has a Programming Blog that is well worth a look. Let’s spend some time getting to know Bruce better! Can you
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Python added syntax for what something called Variable Annotation in the version 3.6. Variable Annotation is basically an enhancement of type hinting, which was introduced in Python 3.5. The full explanation behind Variable Annotation is explained in PEP 526. In this article, we will have a quick refresher on type hinting and then introduce the
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It’s that time of year again where the holidays are upon us, so I am doing a sale of some of my works. You can get Python 101 for FREE and Python 201: Intermediate Python for 50% off. Here are the coupon codes you can use: For Python 101 – au-py101-free For Python 201 –
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This week we welcome Matthew Makai as our PyDev of the Week! Matthew is the creator of Full Stack Python and he also works with Michael Kennedy on his Python for Entrepreneurs video course. You might also want to check out what he’s been up to over on Github. Let’s take a few minutes to
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Sometimes it’s fun to add a simple border to your photos. The Pillow package has a very easy method of adding such borders to your images via its ImageOps module. As usual, you will need to have Pillow installed to do any of the examples in this article. If you don’t have it already, you
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I recently came across a question on StackOverflow where the user wanted to know how to drag images onto their image control in wxPython and have the dragged image resize into a thumbnail. This piqued my interest and I decided to figure out how to do it. I knew that you could create a thumbnail
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