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Creating software is hard work. To make your software better, your application needs to keep working even when the unexpected happens. For example, let’s say your application needs to pull information down from the Internet. What happens if the person using your application loses their Internet connectivity? Another common issue is what to do if […]
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Type checking or hinting is a newer feature of Python that was added in Python 3.5. Type hinting is also known as type annotation. Type hinting is adding special syntax to functions and variable declarations that tell the developer what type the argument or variable is. Python does not enforce the type hints. You can
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Python is one of the most popular languages in the world. I have been using it myself for over a decade and am still constantly learning new things. Since so many people are stuck at home, I thought it might be a good time to do a book sale. Now is great time to learn
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The original Python 101 was the first book I had ever written. In deciding to write a 2nd edition, I needed to decide what I should keep and what I should remove from the book. What I ended up doing was rewriting the book from the ground up. In the original book, Python 101 was
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My Kickstarter for the 2nd Edition of Python 101 is ending in less than two days. If you want a signed copy or to purchase one of my other books for a discount, you should check out the Kickstarter as I have lots of good deals on there. Also, note that the 2nd Edition of
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I have put together some sample chapters for the 2nd edition of Python 101 which is coming out later this year. You can download the PDF version of these sample chapters here. Note that these chapters may have minor typos in them. Feel free to let me know if you find any bugs or errors.
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The second edition of my book, Python 101, has been successfully funded on Kickstarter. As is tradition, I have added a couple of stretch goals for adding more content to this already hefty book. Here are the goals: 1) $5000 – Get 4 Bonus Chapters These chapters would cover the following topics: Assignment Expressions How
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I am excited to announce that my newest book, Python 101, 2nd Edition is launching on Kickstarter today! Python 101 holds a special place in my heart as it was the very first book I ever wrote. Frankly, I don’t think I would have even written a book if it weren’t for the readers of
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Interesting in learning Python? Well you will be happy to know that I am running a Black Friday / Cyber Monday sale of my Python books. But I am starting the sale early so that you have plenty of time to decide if you’d like to buy one of my books. Check them out below!
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This week we welcome Peter Farrell (@hackingmath) as our PyDev of the Week! Peter is the author Math Adventures with Python and two other math related Python books. You can learn more about Peter by visiting his website. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Peter! Can you tell us a little about
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a well-known format popularized by Adobe. It purports to create a document that should render the same across platforms. Python has several libraries that you can use to work with PDFs: ReportLab – Creating PDFs PyPDF2 – Manipulating preexisting PDFs pdfrw – Also for manipulating preexisting PDFs, but also
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I was recently interviewed on the Lucid Programming Podcast by Vincent Russo about writing books about Python. You can listen to the audio here: If you’d like to know more about how I write books, you might enjoy this article I wrote on the topic. I also wrote an article on the Pros and Cons
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This week we welcome Eric Matthes (@ehmatthes) as our PyDev of the Week! Eric is the author of the popular book, Python Crash Course. He also created a neat set of Python Flash Cards that I reviewed earlier this year. You can catch up with Eric on his website or check out some of his
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It’s summer time and now is a great time to learn Python! To help with that, I am running a sale of my Python books for the next week. The sale ends August 6th. All books are $9.99-$14.99 on Leanpub! Creating GUI Applications with wxPython Creating GUI Applications with wxPython is my latest book. In
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This week we welcome David Kopec (@davekopec) as our PyDev of the Week! David is the author of Classic Computer Science Problems in Python from Manning, as well as several other books. He was even interviewed about his book by Talk Python! If you would like to see what open source projects he is working
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