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I see questions relating to the title of this article a lot. How do I open a second frame / window? How do I get all the frames to close when I close the main application? When you are first learning wxPython, these kinds of questions can be kind of hard to find answers for […]
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In this screencast we will learn how to install 3rd party modules and packages using easy_install, pip and from source. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
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Debugging is an important concept. The concept of debugging is trying to figure out what is wrong with your code or just trying to understand the code. There are many times where I will come to unfamiliar code and I will need to step through it in a debugger to grasp how it works. Most
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The more you do programming, the more you will here about how you should test your code. You will hear about things like Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development (TDD). These are great ways to create quality code. But how does testing fit in with Jupyter? Frankly, it really doesn’t. If you want to test
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This week we welcome Marc Garcia (@datapythonista) as our PyDev of the Week! Marc is a core developer of pandas, a Python data analysis library. If you’d like to know more about Marc, you can check out his website which has links to his talks that he has given at PyData in Europe as well
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In this episode, you will learn the basics of using Python’s doctest and unittest modules. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub Related Articles Python 3 Testing: An Intro to unittest Python 102: An Intro to TDD and unittest
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According to The Economist, Python is “becoming the world’s most popular coding language”. Here’s a chart that shows how popular the language is: There’s a lot of interesting information in that article and there’s some interesting conversation going on in this Reddit thread which is related to the article.
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When working with Jupyter Notebook, you will find yourself needing to distribute your Notebook as something other than a Notebook file. The most likely reason is that you want to share the content of your Notebook to non-technical users that don’t want to install Python or the other dependencies necessary to use your Notebook. The
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This week we welcome K Lars Lohn (@2braids) as our PyDev of the Week! He has been a part of the Python community for quite a few years. You can learn a bit more about him over on his blog or by checking out his Github account. Let’s spend some time getting to know him
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In this screencast you will learn the basics of profiling your code using Python’s built-in cProfile module. You can read the chapter this screencast is based on here – http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or get a copy of the book on Leanpub.
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There are several methods of extending the functionality of Jupyter Notebooks. Here are four of them: Kernels IPython kernel extensions Notebook extensions Notebook server extensions For the purposes of this article, I will be focusing on the third item, Notebook Extensions. However, let’s take a moment and talk about the other three so that you
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This week we welcome Jacqueline Kazil (@JackieKazil) as our PyDev of the Week! She is the co-author of Data Wrangling with Python. Jacqueline is the creator of the Mesa package. You can see what other projects she is working on by going to Github. Let’s take a few moments to get to know her better!
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In this screencast you will learn how to use lambdas in Python. You can read the chapter this screencast is based on here: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or purchase the book on Leanpub Related Articles Python 101: Lambda Basics The Python Lambda
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Jupyter Notebook can be turned into a slide presentation that is kind of like using Microsoft Powerpoint, except that you can run the slide’s code live! It’s really neat how well it works. The only con in my book is that there isn’t a lot of theming that can be applied to your slides, so
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This week we welcome Hillel Wayne (@Hillelogram) as our PyDev of the Week! Hillel is the author of “Learn TLA+” and is currently writing “Practical TLA+” with Apress. You should check out his website / blog as it is a good place to learn more about him. Hillel also recently spoke at PyCon US on
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