Using Python to Turn Text-to-Speech on Mac OSX (Video)
Learn how to turn text into speech on Mac OSX with the Python programming language
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Learn the basics of Python with these beginner-friendly tutorials
What’s New in Python 3.11 (Video)
In this video, Mike Driscoll talks about what to expect in Python’s newest release, which is coming in Fall 2022 Better Performance Improved error messages Exception groups New type hints The new `tomllib` module See the Python website for full details
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Data Science Packages in Python (Video)
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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An Intro to Python Web Frameworks (Video)
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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An Intro to the contextlib Module in Python (Video)
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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Python Video Series: The builtins module
In this video tutorial, you will learn about Python’s builtins module
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Python’s Calendar Module (video)
Learn the basics of Python’s amazing calendar module in this video:
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Python Automation Libraries (Video)
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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How to Create a Command-line Application with argparse
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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Python 101 – Learn All About Functions (Video)
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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Announcing: The Python 101 Video Course
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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Python 101 – The REPL (Video)
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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Intro to Testing Python with doctest (Video)
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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PyDev of the Week: Kalob Taulien
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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A Tour of Python’s itertools Library
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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