This week we welcome Rachell Calhoun (@Rachell_Calhoun) as our PyDev of the Week! Rachell is active in the Python community and the Django Girls community. You can see some of the many things that Rachell is working on over on Rachell’s website. You can also check out Rachell’s GitHub profile to see what cool project’s […]
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Are you ready to power up your Python skills? The Python programming language has more than 200 modules in its standard library. In this tutorial, you will learn about functools, a module that is tailor-made for acting on or returning other modules. You will learn about how to use functool decorators effectively, caching, function overloading
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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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This week we welcome Brian Skinn (@btskinn) as our PyDev of the Week! Brian maintains the from python import logging RSS feed on Python news / personal blog. Brian is active in the Python community as well. Let’s spend some time getting to know Brian better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies,
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Learn how to use Python’s amazing standard library to add caching to your functions. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to use functools.cache to add caching to a function If you’d like to learn more about the functools module, you can check out this other video of mine:
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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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This week we welcome Raza Zaidi (@razacodes) as our PyDev of the Week! Raza is a content creator on Twitter and YouTube. You can learn about Python, data science, Django, and more on Raza’s YouTube channel. Check it out when you get a chance! Now let’s spend a few moments getting to know Raza better!
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This week we welcome Mason Egger (@masonegger) as our PyDev of the Week! Mason is an organizer of PyTexas and a developer advocate at Gretel. Mason also maintains a Python website where you can see what Mason has been up to. Let’s take a few minutes to get to know Mason better! Can you tell
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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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The PyDev of the Week this week is Jyotika Singh (@JyotikaSingh_). Jyotika is the maintainer of pyAudioProcessing and a speaker at multiple conferences. You can check out what Jyotika is up to by going to her GitHub profile. Let’s spend a few minutes getting to know Jyotika better! Can you tell us a little about
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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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Concurrency is a big topic in programming. The concept of concurrency is to run multiple pieces of code at once. Python has a couple of different solutions that are built-in to its standard library. You can use threads or processes. In this chapter, you will learn about using threads. When you run your own code,
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This week we welcome Julien Palard (@sizeof) as our PyDev of the Week! Julien is a core developer of the Python programming language and a Python trainer. Julien is also the creator of HackInScience, a Python learning platform as well as an organizer for AFPy, the French Python user group. Julien did the French translation
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In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of testing with Python and the built-in unittest module You can also read the article that this video is based on at Mouse vs Python here: Python 3 Testing: An Intro to unittest
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