I am happy to announce my first Udemy course on the Python programming language. It is called Python by Example and is a re-branding of my Python 101 Screencast series. I had originally hoped to keep the name, Python 101 on Udemy, but someone else had already taken it by the time I got my […]
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This week we welcome Ben Bangert as our PyDev of the Week! Ben is the mastermind behind the Pylons project, which was a web framework in Python. It is now known as Pyramid. If you have a moment or two, you should check out Ben’s website or his Github profile to see what he’s been
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The unittest module is actually a testing framework that was originally inspired by JUnit. It currently supports test automation, the sharing of setup and shutdown code, aggregating tests into collections and the independence of tests from the reporting framework. The unittest frameworks supports the following concepts: Test Fixture – A fixture is what is used
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This week we welcome Larry Hastings as our PyDev of the Week! Larry is a core Python developer and long time user of Python. He has a fun talk about Python’s GIL on Youtube that is well worth your time checking out. He is also the mastermind behind the now defunct Radio Free Python podcast.
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The urllib module in Python 3 is a collection of modules that you can use for working with URLs. If you are coming from a Python 2 background you will note that in Python 2 you had urllib and urllib2. These are now a part of the urllib package in Python 3. The current version
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This week we welcome Barry Warsaw (@pumpichank) as our PyDev of the Week! Barry works on the Ubuntu operating system for Canonical and he’s the project leader for GNU Mailman. He also used to be the lead maintainer for the Jython project. If you have the time, you should check out his website. Barry’s Github
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I get asked by publishers to review books from time to time. Last month, Packt asked me if I’d be willing to review for their book, Python Projects for Kids by Jessica Ingrassellino. Frankly I tend to avoid beginning Python books now because they tend to be very similar, but I thought this one might
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The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is used by many companies and organizations for sharing data. Python provides an File Transfer Protocol module in its standard library called ftplib that implements the client side of the FTP protocol. You can learn all about the File Transfer Protocol by reading the RFC 959 document on the Internet.
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This week we welcome Amber Brown (@hawkieowl) as our PyDev of the Week. Amber is one of the core developers of the Twisted package. She has a fun little twisted blog that you might enjoy checking out. You can also see what Amber’s been up to by checking out her Github profile. She has also
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Redirecting stdout to something most developers will need to do at some point or other. It can be useful to redirect stdout to a file or to a file-like object. I have also redirected stdout to a text control in some of my desktop GUI projects. In this article we will look at the following:
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Earlier this year or late 2015, Packt Publishing asked me to be technical reviewer for a book called “Modular Programming with Python” by Erik Westra. It sounded really interesting and it ended up being one of the best books I’ve read from Packt. Note that I am the sole technical reviewer of the book. I’m
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This week we welcome Georg Brandl (@birkenfeld) as our PyDev of the Week. Georg is a core developer of the Python language and has been for over 10 years. He is also a part of the Pocoo team. You can see what projects get him excited by checking out his Github profile. Let’s take a
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Descriptors were introduced to Python way back in version 2.2. They provide the developer with the ability to add managed attributes to objects. The methods needed to create a descriptor are __get__, __set__ and __delete__. If you define any of these methods, then you have created a descriptor. The idea behind the descriptor is to
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The other day, I decided I wanted to create a decorator to catch exceptions and log them. I found a rather complex example on Github that I used for some ideas on how to approach this task and came up with the following: # exception_decor.py import functools import logging def create_logger(): “”” Creates a logging
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Regular expressions are basically a tiny language all their own that you can use inside of Python and many other programming languages. You will often hear regular expressions referred to as “regex”, “regexp” or just “RE”. Some languages, such as Perl and Ruby, actually support regular expression syntax directly in the language itself. Python only
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