Python 3.6 added yet another way to do string substitution that they are calling “Formatted String Literals”. You can read all about the concept in PEP 498. I take a bit of umbrage here in that the Zen of Python states that There should be one– and preferable only one –obvious way to do it. […]
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The local Python users group, Pyowa, was restarted last night after a year and a half hibernation. I hadn’t been to one of their meetings in a few years, but I had decided at the end of 2016 to get it going again. Once the ball was rolling, we got multiple offers of sponsorships for
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This week we welcome Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) as our PyDev of the Week! Michael is an author and speaker. He is also a Python and MongoDB enthusiast, and an entrepreneur. He is the host of the popular Talk Python To Me podcast as well as the new Python Bytes Podcast. In 2016, he founded the
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I try to write a retrospective of the previous year every year, usually for the first day of the new year. However due to tons of projects and family medical issues, I ended up pushing it to today. The year 2016 was pretty exciting. I wrote two books. The first was a sequel to my
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This week we welcome Lisa Roach as our PyDev of the Week! Lisa is one of the authors of PEP 526 – Syntax for Variable Annotations which is a part of Python 3.6. You can check out which FOSS projects Lisa is interested in over on Github. Let’s take a few moments to get you
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After the amazing response I had when I made Python 101 free for a few days a couple of months ago (see here, I have decided to make it free (or Pay What You Want) permanently on Leanpub (PDF, mobi and epub): https://leanpub.com/python_101 Note: I am still selling it on Amazon, Gumroad and Lulu Now
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This week we welcome Mark Haase as our PyDev of the Week. Mark is the author of PEP 505 – None-aware operators. You can check out what projects Mark is interested in over on Github. He also has a programming blog that covers various programming topics. Let’s take some time getting to know Mark better!
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My first book, Python 101, has been made into an online course on the educative website. Educative is kind of like Code Academy in that you can run the code snippets from the book to see what kind of output they produce. You can edit the examples that are executable, but you cannot save your
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This week we welcome Cameron Simpson as our PyDev of the Week. Cameron is the co-author of PEP 418 – Add monotonic time, performance counter, and process time functions and the author of PEP 499 – python -m foo should bind sys.modules[‘foo’] in addition to sys.modules[‘__main__’]. He is also a core Python developer and enthusiast.
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Python 3.6 added another interesting new feature that is known as Syntax for variable annotations. This new feature is outlined in PEP 526. The basic premise of this PEP is take the idea of Type Hinting (PEP 484) to its next logical step, which is basically adding option type definitions to Python variables, including class
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Python 3.6 added some interesting new features. The one that we will be looking at in this article comes from PEP 515: Underscores in Numeric Literals. As the name of the PEP implies, this basically gives you the ability to write long numbers with underscores where the comma normally would be. In other words, 1000000
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This week we welcome Oleg Broytman (@phd_ru) as our PyDev of the Week. Oleg is the maintainer of the SQLObject project. According to their website “SQLObject is a popular Object Relational Manager for providing an object interface to your database, with tables as classes, rows as instances, and columns as attributes.“. You can also see
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I always put a lot of thought into the covers of my book. For my first book on wxPython, I thought it would be fun to do a cookbook because I already had a lot of recipes on my blog. So I went with the idea of doing a cookbook. For the cover, my first
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This week we welcome Ivan Levkivskyi (@ILevkivskyi) as our PyDev of the Week! Ivan is the author or coauthor of several Python Enhancement Proposals, specifically 483, 484 and 526. In other words, Ivan is one of the lead developers behind adding type hints to Python via the typing module. Ivan is a scientist and as
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I recently finished up Mmy third book, wxPython Cookbook and I am officially releasing it today. My wxPython Cookbook is my longest book yet, clocking in at over 340 pages and over 50 recipes. I have a full table of contents on Leanpub for anyone who is interested in the nitty gritty details. Here are
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