I always spend some time thinking about how I want my book’s cover to look. When I was designing the Cookbook’s cover, I thought mostly about food and chefs. I had originally thought I might have some kind of kitchen scene with mice in chef hats and a snake on the mantle. But I wanted […]
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My second book, Python 201: Intermediate Python (ISBN: 978-0-9960628-3-1), is now finished and officially published. You can check it out at the following locations: You can get a paperback copy through Lulu It is available as a PDF, mobi and epub via Gumroad and Leanpub Amazon Kindle The paperback will become available on Amazon and
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This week we welcome Reinout van Rees (@reinoutvanrees) as our PyDev of the Week! Reinout is the creator / maintainer of zest.releaser. He has a nice website that includes a Python blog that you might want to check out. I would also recommend checking his Github page to see what projects he’s a part of.
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My newest book will be my own home brewed version of a wxPython Cookbook. If you’re interested in learning more about it, then please check out the Kickstarter campaign. The brief synopsis is that it will have a little over 50 recipes in the book and around 300 pages of content. To help you make
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This week we welcome Damien George as our PyDev of the Week! Damien is the man behind the MicroPython project which allows you to run a version of Python on microcontrollers. You can learn more about Damien on his website or by visiting his Github page. Let’s spend some time getting to know our fellow
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My second book, Python 201: Intermediate Python is releasing two weeks from today on September 6th, 2016. I just wanted to remind anyone who is interested that you can pre-order a signed paperback copy of the book here right up until release day. You will also receive a copy of the book in the following
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Several years ago, the readers of this blog asked me to take some of my articles and turn them into a cookbook on wxPython. I have finally decided to do just that. I am including over 50 recipes that I am currently editing to make them more consistent and updating them to be compatible with
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This week we welcome Michele Simionato as our PyDev of the Week! Michele is an expert on Python and is known for his paper on Python’s Method Resolution Order which was published to the Python website by Guide Van Rossum and for a very interesting series of articles on metaclasses that he wrote with David
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This week we welcome Harry Percival (@hjwp) as our PyDev of the Week! Harry is the author of Test-Driven Development with Python. You can visit his website to learn more about the book and even read it for free! Harry is also a programmer at PythonAnywhere which allows you to host, run and code Python
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This week we welcome Ben Nuttall (@ben_nuttall) as our PyDev of the Week. Ben is a Raspberry Pi Community Manager http://bennuttall.com/ and is the creator of GPIO Zero, which is a simple interface to the GPIO components on the Raspberry Pi. You should also check out his website to see what Ben is up to.
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Web scraping is where a programmer will write an application to download web pages and parse out specific information from them. Usually when you are scraping data you will need to make your application navigate the website programmatically. In this chapter, we will learn how to download files from the internet and parse them if
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The concurrent.futures module was added in Python 3.2. According to the Python documentation it provides the developer with a high-level interface for asynchronously executing callables. Basically concurrent.futures is an abstraction layer on top of Python’s threading and multiprocessing modules that simplifies using them. However it should be noted that while the abstraction layer simplifies the
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The multiprocessing module was added to Python in version 2.6. It was originally defined in PEP 371 by Jesse Noller and Richard Oudkerk. The multiprocessing module allows you to spawn processes in much that same manner than you can spawn threads with the threading module. The idea here is that because you are now spawning
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This week we welcome Cory Benfield (@lukasaoz) as our PyDev of the Week! Cory is a core developer of the Python language, specifically on urllib3 as well as a core developer of the requests package. He is also the lead maintainer of the Hyper Project which is a set of related projects that provide HTTP/2
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The threading module was first introduced in Python 1.5.2 as an enhancement of the low-level thread module. The threading module makes working with threads much easier and allows the program to run multiple operations at once. Note that the threads in Python work best with I/O operations, such as downloading resources from the Internet or
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