This week we welcome Philip House (@PhilipHouse2) as our PyDev of the Week! Philip is one of the authors behind PEP 526 – Syntax for Variable Annotations which was provisionally accepted into Python 3.6. Philip also writes a blog and is involved in the development of several 3rd party Python packages which you can check […]
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This week we welcome Jacob Vanderplas (@jakevdp) as our PyDev of the Week! Jacob is the author of Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with Data and works at the University of Washington as a researcher and teacher. As you might have guessed from the title of his book, Jacob is very much
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This week we welcome David Goodger as our PyDev of the Week! David is the original author of reStructuredText and Docutils. He has an old school website where you can get an idea of what he’s been up to. Let’s take some time to get to know our fellow Pythonista! Can you tell us a
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It’s the holiday season so I am putting all my books on sale starting today. The sale will run through December 23rd. You can purchase any of my books for $6.99 on Gumroad or Leanpub. I’m actually recommending Leanpub now as I find its user interface much easier to navigate for my readers, but if
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This week we welcome Alex Clark (@aclark4life) as our PyDev of the Week! Alex is fork author and project leader of pillow, a “friendly” fork of the Python Imaging Library. Alex writes at his own Python blog which is certainly worth checking out. He is also the author of Plone 3.3 Site Administration. You might
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This week we welcome Jim Fulton (@j1mfulton) as our PyDev of the Week! He has been doing software development for over a quarter century. Jim is the chief architect of Zope, which is a object-oriented web application server written in Python. You will actually find various other Python packages using some Zope components, such as
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This week we welcome David Mertz (@mertz_david) as our PyDev of the Week! David is the author of Text Processing in Python as well as many interesting articles about Python on IBM developerWorks. I’m pretty sure I read some of those articles when I was first learning Python. You can check out a pretty intensive
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This week we welcome Kirby Urner (@thekirbster) as our PyDev of the Week. Kirby teaches Python for the O’Reilly School of Technology. He also speaks at PyCon USA from time to time. You might also want to check out his website to learn more about his passions. Let’s take a few moments to get to
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Python 3.5 added some new syntax that allows developers to create asynchronous applications and packages easier. One such package is aiohttp which is an HTTP client/server for asyncio. Basically it allows you to write asynchronous clients and servers. The aiohttp package also supports Server WebSockets and Client WebSockets. You can install aiohttp using pip: pip
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Leanpub is featuring my second book on their homepage today: You can get the book for 50% off until tomorrow by using the following link: http://leanpub.com/python201/c/50percent Python 201 covers the following topics: Part I – Intermediate Modules Chapter 1 – The argparse module Chapter 2 – The collections module Chapter 3 – The contextlib module
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Today I am releasing my first book, Python 101, for free for 48 hours. Python 101 was written as an introduction to the Python programming language. While it is intended for beginners, some have claimed that they needed more hand-holding than this book provided for them. So I currently recommend it as an introductory and
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This week we welcome Al Sweigart as our PyDev of the Week. Al is the author of the PyAutoGUI and Pyperclip packages. He is also the author of several Python books such as: Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python Making Games with Python & Pygame
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I am happy to announce that I now have all the chapters for my latest book, wxPython Cookbook, ready to be checked out. I still consider the book to be in beta mode as I need to go through each chapter and check them over as much as possible this month, but I am also
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This week we welcome Maurits van Rees (@mauritsvanrees) as our PyDev of the Week. Maurits is a core developer of the Plone project as a member of the Plone Security Team and the Plone Release Team. He is also a maintainer of zest.releaser. You can find out more about what Maurits has been up to
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Over the summer, I came across an interesting plotting library called GooPyCharts which is a Python wrapper for the Google Charts API. In this article, we will spend a few minutes learning how to use this interesting package. GooPyCharts follows syntax that is similar to MATLAB and is actually meant to be an alternative to
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