Sometimes you will find yourself wanting to resize a photo. I usually want to do this for photos that I want to email or post on a website since some of my images can be quite large. Normal people use an image editor. I usually do as well, but for fun I thought I would […]
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Black and white images aren’t for everyone. I personally like to play around with them as you can sometimes take a boring photo and turn it into something dramatic. I have also rescued a drab photo by turning it black and white. If you want to change a photo that you took into a black
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This week we welcome Giampaolo Rodola’ (@grodola) as our PyDev of the Week! Giampaolo is the creator and maintainer of the psutil project as well as the pyftpdlib and pysendfile packages. He is also been a core developer and maintainer of ftplib, asyncore and asynchat stdlib modules. You can check out some of his work
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In our last article, we learned how to crop images with the Pillow package. For this article, we will learn how to rotate and mirror our images. Rotating an Image Rotating an image with Python and Pillow is quite simple. Let’s take a look at some code:
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If you like taking photos than you will probably also find yourself cropping your photos from time to time. I will crop photos to get rid of background noise or to just focus more on the subject I was trying to capture. I also like to take high resolution photos of insects or other small
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This week we welcome Tom Augspurger (@TomAugspurger) as our PyDev of the Week! Tom is a core developer of the pandas, dask and distributed Python packages. You can see what Tom is up to by checking out his blog or over on Github. Let’s spend some time getting to know Tom better! Can you tell
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Anaconda released a statement that they are partnering with Microsoft to “deliver Python-powered machine learning”. Anaconda is a data science distribution of the Python programming language. If you go check out the statement, you will find that Microsoft is specifically planning to “embed Anaconda into Azure Machine Learning, Visual Studio and SQL Server”. I used
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The wxPython toolkit supports using keyboard shortcuts via the concept of Accelerators and Accelerator Tables. You can also bind directly to key presses, but in a lot of cases, you will want to go with Accelerators. The accelerator gives to the ability to add a keyboard shortcut to your application, such as the ubiquitous “CTRL+S”
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This week we welcome Mariatta Wijaya (@mariatta) as our PyDev of the Week! Mariatta is the co-chair of the PyCascades conference, a regional Python conference taking place in Vancouver, BC. She is also a core developer of the Python programming language. She does automation and web development for a movie company, so she also shows
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This week we welcome Daniel Roseman as our PyDev of the Week. I stumbled across Daniel on StackOverflow via some of the Python answers he has given. He is in the top 0.01% overall on StackOverflow, which is pretty impressive. He also has an old blog with a few interesting Python related articles in it.
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Malicious code has been found on the Python Package Index (PyPI), the most popular location for sharing Python packages. This was reported by Slovak National Security Office which was then picked up by Bleeping Computer among other places (i.e. Reddit). The attack vector used typosquatting, which is basically someone uploading a package with a misspelled
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StackOverflow published a report last week in which they stated that Python has a solid claim to being the fastest-growing major programming language. Python was also called out as one of the top programming languages of 2017 over on the IEEE Spectrum website, which I covered in an earlier article. Python just keeps growing more
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This week we welcome Jeff Forcier (@bitprophet) as our PyDev of the Week. Jeff is the current maintainer of the popular Fabric and Paramiko packages. He is also the creator of the Invoke package. You can check out other projects that Jeff contributes to on Github. He also has a blog that you might find
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This week we welcome Matthias Bussonnier (@Mbussonn) as our PyDev of the Week. Matthias is a core developer of the Jupyter Notebook and IPython. You may want to check out his Github profile to see what projects he is interested in and working on. Let’s spend some time getting to know Matthias better! Can you
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It’s time for school and going back to the university, so I am putting on a “Back to School” sale for my Python books. You can now buy my second and third books for 50% off on Leanpub. Python 201: Intermediate Python wxPython Cookbook You can check out my first book, Python 101, in its
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