Learn the basics of Python with these beginner-friendly tutorials
You may know Adam from all his work around the Django web framework. If you head to the Python Package Index (PyPI), you will see that Adam has made or contributed to more than 80 projects! Adam recently released a new book called Boost Your Git DX Listen in as we chat about: Book writing Django Python […]
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Python has many remarkable web frameworks to choose from. Sanic is another excellent web framework and one of the first to support async programming. Sanic is built to be able to build fast and run fast. In this episode, we talk to Adam Hopkins, one of the maintainers of the Sanic web framework. We discuss the following
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Deprecation warnings are handy ways for open-source maintainers to alert their users that some part of their package is no longer going to be supported. Good maintainers will provide migration guides that tell you what to do when you see a deprecation warning. You don’t want to ignore a deprecation warning because it alerts you
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The Ruff project was released about a year ago and stormed the Python world. Ruff is written in Rust, but lints Python super fast. You can read all about it in An Intro to Ruff. This week, the Ruff formatted was released! You can still use Ruff to lint your Python code, but now you
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There are many different tools that you can install to help you be a better Python programmer. For example, you might install pytest so that you can do unit tests of your code. Or you might install Ruff, a super fast Python linter. The focus of this article is on another tool called Radon that
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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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