Learn the basics of Python with these beginner-friendly tutorials
In this tutorial, I will talk about some of the many different data science packages you can use in Python. Packages mentioned: pandas, matplotlib, numpy, scipy, mahotas, OpenCV, Keras, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Theano, Bokeh, Plotly, Scikit-learn, Scikit-image
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Learn about some of the many Python web frameworks that are available to you in this video. Web frameworks mentioned in this video Django – https://www.djangoproject.com/ Flask – https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.1.x/ Pyramid – https://trypyramid.com/ FastAPI – https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/ CherryPy – https://docs.cherrypy.dev/en/latest/ TurboGears – https://turbogears.org/ Web2py – http://www.web2py.com/ Bottle – https://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/ Python Content Management Systems Plone – https://plone.org/ Django
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Learn how to create different types of context managers using Python’s contextlib module! You can learn more in the contextlib documentation. Related Articles Python’s with Statement and Context Managers Python 3.10 – Parenthesized Context Managers wxPython’s Context Managers Python 201 – An Intro to Context Managers
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In this video tutorial, you will learn about Python’s builtins module
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Learn the basics of Python’s amazing calendar module in this video:
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Learn about some of the automation packages that you can use in Python in this handy video. Links are also provided here underneath the video. Web Automation Packages Selenium – https://www.selenium.dev/ Playright – https://playwright.dev/python/docs/intro ScraPy – https://scrapy.org/ BeautifulSoup – https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ GUI Automation Packages SikuliX – http://sikulix.com/ pywinauto – https://pywinauto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ PyAutoGUI – https://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Excel Automation OpenPyXL
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When you are creating an application, you will usually want to be able to tell your application how to do something. There are two popular methods for accomplishing this task. You can make your application accept command-line arguments or you can create a graphical user interface. Some applications support both. Command-line interfaces are helpful when
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In this video tutorial you will learn the following: Creating a function Calling a function Passing arguments Type hinting your arguments Passing keyword arguments Required and default arguments *args and **kwargs Positional-only arguments Scope Related Merch Python 101 Video Series Python 101 – 2nd Edition: Amazon (paperback / Kindle) Gumroad (eBook – PDF, mobi, epub)
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I am happy to announce that I am creating a Python 101 video course, which is based on Python 101: 2nd Edition. The course will eventually include videos that cover the chapters in the books. It is launching with 13 videos that run 168+ minutes! The following link will give you $10 off! Purchase Now
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In this tutorial, you will learn what a REPL is and why it is useful. I also show you a couple of alternative REPL environments in this tutorial, such as IDLE and IPython. Related Articles An Intro to Python Editors Python 101 – An Intro to IDLE
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This video tutorial teaches you the basics of using Python’s doctest module for testing your code. This video is based on my article, Python Testing with doctest. Want to learn more Python? Check out some of my Python books on Leanpub, Gumroad, or Amazon.
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This week we welcome Kalob Taulien (@KalobTaulien) as our PyDev of the Week! Kalob is a WagtailCMS core dev, which is a CMS on top of the Django web framework. You can catch up with Kalob by going to his website where you can check out some of Kalob’s bootcamp courses. Let’s spend a few
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Python provides a great module for creating your own iterators. The module I am referring to is itertools. The tools provided by itertools are fast and memory efficient. You will be able to take these building blocks to create your own specialized iterators that can be used for efficient looping. In this article, you will
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Software developers have to work with data. More often than not, the data that you work with will need to be available to multiple developers as well as multiple users at once. The typical solution for this type of situation is to use a database. Databases hold data in a tabular format, which means that
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The Python programming language comes with its own built-in Integrated Development Environment (IDE) called IDLE. The name, IDLE, supposedly came from the actor, Eric Idle, who was a part of the Monty Python troupe, which is what Python itself is named after. IDLE comes with Python on Windows and some Linux variants. You may need
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