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Python Automation Libraries (Video)

beginner, Python, Video / Mike / May 25, 2022

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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Python 101 – Learn All About Functions (Video)

1 Comment / beginner, Python, Video / Mike / May 7, 2022 / Python, Python 101

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

beginner, Education, intermediate, Video / Mike / May 3, 2022 / Course, Python

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)

beginner, Python, Video / Mike / April 27, 2022 / Python

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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Python 101 – Intro to Graphing with Python and Matplotlib (Video)

Python, Video / Mike / April 14, 2022 / graph, Python

Python has lots of data visualization packages available to it. One of the most popular is Matplotlib. In this video tutorial, will be learning about the following topics: Creating a Simple Line Chart with PyPlot Creating a Bar Chart Creating a Pie Chart Adding Labels Adding Titles to Plots Creating a Legend Showing Multiple Figures

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Intro to Testing Python with doctest (Video)

beginner, Testing, Video / Mike / April 5, 2022 / Python, Testing

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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Automating Excel with Python Video Overview

Python, Video / Mike / March 29, 2022 / Excel, Python

In this tutorial, I will show you an overview of using OpenPyXL and Python to read and write Excel documents. You will also learn how to: Style cells Change fonts Create named styles Use pandas with Excel Combine pandas and OpenPyXL Basics of using XslxWriter The code in this tutorial is based on code from

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5 Tips on Learning Python From Zero

Python, Video / Mike / March 1, 2022 / Python

I was recently contacted by https://www.developrec.net/ to create a video about Python. Here is the result:

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Python 101 – Importing Modules (Video)

Python, Video / Mike / September 17, 2021 / 30DaysOfPython, Python

In this video tutorial, you will learn all about how to import modules using the import and from keywords Related Tutorials Python 101: All about imports Creating a Simple Wizard with wxPython (Video) Python 101 – Working with Files (Video)

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Creating a Simple Wizard with wxPython (Video)

Python, Video, wxPython / Mike / September 10, 2021 / 30DaysOfPython, Python, wxPython

In this video tutorial, you will learn how to create a wizard with the wxPython GUI toolkit: Related tutorials wxPython: How to Disable a Wizard’s Next Button wxPython: How to Create a Generic Wizard wxPython: A Wizard Tutorial wxPython by Example – Drag-and-Drop an Image (Video)

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Python 101: Exception Handling (Video)

Python, Video / Mike / June 25, 2021 / Python, Python 101

In this video tutorial, you will learn how exception handling works in Python. Specifically, you will learn the following: Common exceptions Handling exceptions Raising exceptions Examining exception objects Using the finally statement Using the else statement If you prefer to read a tutorial, you might be interested in this: Python 101 – Exception Handling Want

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An Overview of Image Processing with Python and Pillow (Video)

Python, Video / Mike / May 3, 2021 / Pillow, Python, Video

Learn how to edit and enhance photos using Pillow and the Python programming language. What you’ll learn in this video: Opening Images Extracting Image Information (EXIF) Cropping Rotating Image Enhancement Drawing Adding a GUI and more! Talk Notes / Jupyter Notebook Example Code from Pillow: Image Processing with Python book

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Free Python Videos from Manning Publications

Python, Video / Mike / November 24, 2020 / Python

Manning Publications recently contacted me to let me know that they had some new Python videos going up on their YouTube channel. Carl Osipov – author of Cloud Native Machine Learning. He created a session on automatic differentiation used by PyTorch autograd for deep learning: Jonathan Rioux – author of Data Analysis with Python and

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Python 101 – Learning About Comprehensions (Video)

Books, Python, Video / Mike / September 11, 2020 / Python, Python 101

In this tutorial, you will learn about Python’s comprehensions, like the popular list comprehension and the dictionary comprehension. Would you like to learn more about Python? Python 101 – 2nd Edition Purchase now on Leanpub or Amazon

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Python 101 – How to Crop a Photo (Video)

Python, Video / Mike / September 10, 2020 / Python

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Python to crop a photo using Pillow, the friendly fork of the Python Imaging Library. Would you like to learn more about Python? Python 101 – 2nd Edition Purchase now on Leanpub

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