Protocol buffers are a data serialization format that is language agnostic. They are analogous to Python’s own pickle format, but one of the advantages of protocol buffers is that they can be used by multiple programming languages. For example, Protocol buffers are supported in C++, C#, Dart, Go, Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, PHP, Ruby, and more […]
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Microsoft announced that Python is now a part of Excel! Guido van Rossum mentioned on Twitter that he helped the Excel team add Python to the popular spreadsheet application. You can get Python in Excel if you have the ability to access Public Preview versions of Office. This new feature allows you to write Python
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Working with file and folder paths in Python can take time and effort. Fortunately, the Python programming language has a couple of great packages to help you! This tutorial will teach you how to expand an initial path component, such as a tilde (~). You will also learn how to expand/replace environment variables such as
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Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) may finally be coming to an end. The Python Steering Council recently announced that they are accepting PEP 703. This PEP proposes adding a build configuration (–disable-gil) to CPython, which will turn off the GIL. The Python Global Interpreter Lock or GIL, is a mutex or lock that only ever allows
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This week we welcome Zac Hatfield Dodds as our PyDev of the Week! Zac is a core developer of the Hypothesis package, which is a Python library for creating unit tests. You can see what else Zac is up to by checking out Zac’s GitHub profile or by visiting Zac’s website. Let’s take a few
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This week we welcome Dr. Becky Smith (@rebkwok) as our PyDev of the Week! Becky is one of the organizers for DjangoCon Europe. If you’d like to see what Becky has been coding recently, you shold check out Becky’s GitHub profile. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know Becky better! Can you tell us
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This week we welcome Sanskar Jethi (@sansyrox) as our PyDev of the Week! Sanskar is the author of Robyn, a super fast Python web framework with a runtime written in Rust. Sanskar is also the creator of Starfyre, a package for building reactive frontends with Python. If you’d like to catch up with Sanskar, you
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This week we welcome Sophia Yang (@sophiamyang) as our PyDev of the Week! Sophia is a data scientist who works at Anaconda. You can connect with Sophia on LinkedIn. If podcasts are your thing, you can catch Sophia on this Teaching Python Podcast from last year. Let’s take a few moments to get to know
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A lot of people complain that Python is slow. But is it really? In my own experience, Python has almost always been “fast enough”. However, there is that niggling issue of the Global Interpreter Lock or GIL. Let’s talk about that! The Global Interpreter Lock The Python Global Interpreter Lock or GIL, is a mutex or
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This week we welcome Micaela Reyes (@codemickeycode) as our PyDev of the Week! Micaela helps organize Python conferences in Asia. Micaela has been especially active with PyCon PH. She is also a member of the Python Software Foundation. If you’d like to catch up with Micaela, you can check out her website. Let’s spend a
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This week we welcome Marcelo Trylesinski (@marcelotryle) as our PyDev of the Week! Marcelo is a core developer of the Pydantic package. You can use Pydantic to enforce type hints at runtime and data validation. You can catch up with Marcelo on his blog or over on Mastodon. You can also check out Marcelo’s YouTube
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What is linting? A linter will help you find syntactical and stylistic issues with your code. Python has several great 3rd party linting tools. Here are the two most famous ones: pylint Flake8 Innumerable projects use Flake8 to help find problems in their code before it is committed. Many also use pylint, but you won’t
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This week, we welcome Max Kahan (@max_does_tech) as our PyDev of the Week! Max is a Python Developer Advocate and software engineer. You can see Max’s code over on GitHub if you’re curious about what Max has been up to. Let’s take some time to get to know Max better! Can you tell us a
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This week we welcome Jeffrey Glass (@JeffersGlass) as our PyDev of the Week! Jeffrey is the maintainer of PyScript. PyScript is a framework that allows users to create rich Python applications in the browser using HTML’s interface and the power of Pyodide, WASM, and modern web technologies. You can catch up with Jeff by checking
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The Python Show’s second episode is now on YouTube! Today’s episode is about data science and Python with my guest, Akshay Pachaar! You can follow Akshay on Twitter or befriend him on LinkedIn. Topics covered include: How Akshay got into tech, data science, and Python Using Python in data science Python and maps / GIS
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