Learn the basics of Python with these beginner-friendly tutorials
Validating data is one of the many tasks engineers face around the world. Your users make typos as often as anyone else, so you must try to catch those errors. One common type of information that an engineer will need to capture is someone who wants to edit or enter an IP address for a […]
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Textual is an amazing Python package for creating Text-Based User Interfaces (TUIs) in Python. You can learn more in An Intro to Textual – Creating Text User Interfaces with Python. However, Textual isn’t only about creating user interfaces for your terminal. The Textual team is also making Textual for the web! Textual Cloud Service will
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Protocol buffers are a data serialization format that is language agnostic. They are analogous to Python’s own pickle format, but one of the advantages of protocol buffers is that they can be used by multiple programming languages. For example, Protocol buffers are supported in C++, C#, Dart, Go, Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, PHP, Ruby, and more
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Working with file and folder paths in Python can take time and effort. Fortunately, the Python programming language has a couple of great packages to help you! This tutorial will teach you how to expand an initial path component, such as a tilde (~). You will also learn how to expand/replace environment variables such as
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Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) may finally be coming to an end. The Python Steering Council recently announced that they are accepting PEP 703. This PEP proposes adding a build configuration (–disable-gil) to CPython, which will turn off the GIL. The Python Global Interpreter Lock or GIL, is a mutex or lock that only ever allows
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What is linting? A linter will help you find syntactical and stylistic issues with your code. Python has several great 3rd party linting tools. Here are the two most famous ones: pylint Flake8 Innumerable projects use Flake8 to help find problems in their code before it is committed. Many also use pylint, but you won’t
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The Python Show’s second episode is now on YouTube! Today’s episode is about data science and Python with my guest, Akshay Pachaar! You can follow Akshay on Twitter or befriend him on LinkedIn. Topics covered include: How Akshay got into tech, data science, and Python Using Python in data science Python and maps / GIS
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Today’s episode is about data science and Python with my guest, Akshay Pachaar! You can follow Akshay on Twitter or befriend him on LinkedIn. Topics covered include: How Akshay got into tech, data science, and Python Using Python in data science Python and maps / GIS Machine learning LLMs Content creation + audience growth tips
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The Python Show Podcast is something that I have thought about creating for several years. I have had several people tell me or ask me if I would do a podcast. Of course, the problem with creating a podcast is choosing your niche. I don’t want to sound like everyone else. On the other hand,
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Teach Me Python has multiple text-based courses that you can use to learn the Python programming language or level up your Python knowledge. Today, I am happy to announce some new content on the site! New Python Courses There are two new courses available on Teach Me Python. The latest course is the first video
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Textual is a Python package used to create cross-platform Text User Interfaces (TUI). This may sound like you’ll be creating a user interface with ASCII-art, but that is not the case. Textual is quite advanced and allows you to add widgets to your terminal applications, including buttons, context switchers, scroll bars, checkboxes, inputs and more.
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The Python Quiz Book is Mike Driscoll’s latest book on the Python programming language. There are over one hundred quizzes and answers in the book to help you test your Python knowledge. From the Publisher Test your Python programming language the fun way… Rather than making annoying mistakes in your code! The Python Quiz Book
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This is the next video in my Python Built-ins Series. Did you know Python has an all() function? Do you know what to use the all() function for? Find out today by watching this short video! More Videos in the series The Python Built-in Functions – aiter and anext (Video) Python’s Built-in Functions Video
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This is the next video in my Python Built-ins Series that I started last week. Learn a little about aiter() and anext() in this one!
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I have started producing a new Python video series on Python’s built-in functions. Did you know there are over 70 built-in functions? Here’s a listing of all the functions straight from the Python documentation: Here’s the introduction video to my new series on The Mouse vs Python YouTube channel: But that’s only the introduction. You
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