This week we welcome Lais Carvalho (@lais_bsc) as our PyDev of the Week! Lais is active in multiple Python user groups in Ireland and has helped organize multiple Python conferences. She is on a recent episode of Python Bytes too, so be sure to check that out! If you’d like to see what projects Lais […]
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My 10th Python book, Automating Excel with Python is now available on Amazon in Paperback or Kindle versions. In this book, you will learn how to use Python to do the following: Create Excel spreadsheets Read Excel spreadsheets Create different cell types Add and remove sheets Convert Excel spreadsheets into other file types Cell styling
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I am running a sale on my Python books where you can take $10 off any of my books on Gumroad. All you need to do is use this offer code when you check out: tenoff. This sale will continue until January 3rd, 2022! This code works on ALL my books, including my latest books!
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This week we welcome Martin Manns as our PyDev of the Week! Martin is the creator of pyspread, “a non-traditional spreadsheet application that is based on and written in the programming language Python.” It’s a really neat application that you can use yourself or learn from. Let’s take a few moments to learn more about
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This week we welcome Alex Hall as our PyDev of the Week! Alex is the creator of https://futurecoder.io/, a platform for learning Python. You can see what other projects Alex works on over at GitHub. Let’s spend some time getting to know Alex better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc):
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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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This week we welcome Fanilo Andrianasolo (@andfanilo) as our PyDev of the Week! Fanilo is a core developer for several Streamlit extensions and a Community Ambassador for Streamlit itself. He also has several tutorials on Streamlit that you can check out. Let’s spend some time getting to know Fanilo! Can you tell us a little
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This week we welcome Pradyun Gedam (@pradyunsg) as our PyDev of the Week! Pradyun works on pip, Python Packaging Index (PyPI), the Python Packaging Authority (PyPA), Sphinx, TOML and more! Pradyun blogs and does talks. You can find out more about those on his website. If you’re more interested in seeing Pradyun’s work, then you
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Lots of companies do sales on Black Friday, sometimes for the entire week. I am going to link to Black Friday sales for Python-related materials, including my own, in this article. I am having a sale where you can get $10 off if you use the following coupon: black21. This coupon works on any of
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This week we welcome Paul McGuire (@ptmcguire) as our PyDev of the Week! Paul is the author of the pyparsing package. Paul is a Site Reliability Engineer for Indeed.com. He is also the co-author of the 4th edition of Python in a Nutshell. You can find out what he is up to by checking out
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This week we welcome Dawn Wages (@DawnWagesSays) as our PyDev of the Week! Dawn is a core developer for Wagtail CMS, which is based on Django. Dawn is also a speaker. You can get more details of what Dawn is up to from her website or by checking her GitHub profile. Let’s spend some time
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I had a use-case where I needed to create a class that had an attribute that was a Python list. Seems simple, right? The part that made it complicated is that I needed to do something special when anything was appended to that attribute. Watching for attribute changes don’t work the same way for lists
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This week we welcome Sarah Gibson (@drsarahlgibson) as our PyDev of the Week! Sarah is a core developer for Binder, JupyterHub, and The Turing Way. You can see what else she is contributing to over on GitHub. Sarah also maintains a blog. Let’s spend some time getting to know Sarah better! Can you tell us
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This week we welcome Tzu-ping Chung (@uranusjr) as our PyDev of the Week! Tzu-ping is a member of Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) and a maintainer of pip and pipx. You can see what else Tzu-ping has been contributing to over on GitHub. He also maintains a website. Let’s take some time to get to know
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This week we welcome Yury Selivanov (@1st1) as our PyDev of the Week! Yury is the founder of CEO of EdgeDB. Yury is also a core developer of the Python programming language. One of his most well known recent contributions is adding async to Python in PEP 492. You can see what else he has
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