Learn the basics of Python with these beginner-friendly tutorials
Reading and writing files is a basic task that most software applications need to do. You will also find that you sometimes need to read and write files to a remote machine or perhaps run commands on a remote machine as well. Python is well-suited for this type of activity using tools such as Paramiko. […]
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Textual v0.80.0 was released today, and it included the brand-new MaskedInput widget. If you have used other GUI toolkits, such as wxPython, you might already be familiar with a masked input widget. These widgets allow you to control the user’s input based on a mask string that the developer provides when instantiating the widget. Let’s spend
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My Kickstarter for my latest Python book is still going on for another eight days. Now is a great time to pre-order the book as well as get my other Python books. The project is fully funded, and I added a stretch goal. Stretch Goal The stretch goal is $5000 or 350 backers. If we reach
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The Python programming language has thousands of wonderful third-party packages available on the Python Package Index. One of those packages is TerminalTextEffects (TTE), a terminal visual effects engine. Here are the features that TerminalTextEffects provides, according to their documentation: Xterm 256 / RGB hex color support Complex character movement via Paths, Waypoints, and motion easing,
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Have you ever wanted to create a plot or graph in your terminal? Okay, maybe you haven’t, but now that you know you can, you want to! Python has the plotext package for plotting in your terminal. However, while that package is amazing all on its own, there is another package called textual-plotext that wraps
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The Textual package is a great way to create GUI-like applications with Python in your terminal. These are known as text-based user interfaces or TUIs. Textual has many different widgets built-in to the framework. One of those widgets is the ProgressBar. If you need to show the progress of a download or long-running process, then
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Have you ever needed a progress bar in your Python command-line application? One great way of creating a progress bar is to use the alive-progress package created by Rogério Sampaio de Almeida! Alive progress provides multiple different types of progress bars in your terminal or IPython REPL session. The alive progress package will work with
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Have you ever wanted to show a pandas DataFrame in your terminal? Of course, you have! All you need is the textual-pandas package! Yes, you can also view a pandas DataFrame in a REPL, such as IPython or Jupyter Notebook, but you can write a TUI application with textual-pandas and use that to display pandas
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A newer Python package called Rich Pixels allows you to create images in your terminal and display them. Darren Burns, one of the team members from the Textual project, created this package. Anyway, let’s find out how to use Rich Pixels! Installation You can install Rich Pixels using Python’s pip utility. Here’s how: python -m pip install rich-pixels Once
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The latest Python book from Michael Driscoll is now out. You can get Python Logging today on any of your favorite platforms! The Kindle version of the book is only 99 cents for a limited time! What does every new developer do when they are first learning to program? They print out strings to their
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This episode focuses on the Harlequin application, a Python SQL IDE for your terminal written using the amazing Textual package. I was honored to have Ted Conbeer, the creator of Harlequin, on the show to discuss his creation and the other things he does with Python. Specifically, we focused on the following topics: Favorite Python packages Origins
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In this episode, I chatted with Armin Ronacher about his many amazing Python packages, such as pygments, flask, Jinja, Rye, and Click! Specifically, we talked about the following: How Flask came about Favorite Python packages Python packaging and much more! Links Sentry Rye Flask pygments Jinja Click uv
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Python’s logging module isn’t the only way to create logs. There are several third-party packages you can use, too. One of the most popular is Loguru. Loguru intends to remove all the boilerplate you get with the Python logging API. You will find that Loguru greatly simplifies creating logs in Python. This chapter has the following sections: Installation
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The Matplotlib package is great for visualizing data. One of its many features is the ability to annotate points on your graph. You can use annotations to explain why a particular data point is significant or interesting. If you haven’t used Matplotlib before, you should check out my introductory article, Matplotlib – An Intro to
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I’m a little late in reporting on this topic, but Ruff put out an update in April 2024 that includes a hand-written recursive descent parser. This update is in version 0.4.0 and newer. Ruff’s new parser is >2x faster, translating to a 20-40% speedup for all linting and formatting invocations. Ruff’s announcement includes some statistics
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