ReportLab is a very powerful library. With a little effort, you can make pretty much any layout that you can think of. I have used it to replicate many complex page layouts over the years. In this tutorial, you will be learning how to use ReportLab’s pdfgen package. You will discover how to do the […]
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The Python Imaging Library (PIL) is a 3rd party Python package that adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. It allows you to process photos and do many common image file manipulations. The current version of this software is in Pillow, which is a fork of the original PIL to support Python 3. Several
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This week we welcome Nikita Sobolev (@sobolevn) as our PyDev of the Week! Nikita is the founder of wemake.services. Nikita also writes a technical blog that you should check out. You can also see what he’s working on over on GitHub. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Nikita better! Can you tell
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Documenting your code early on is quite a bit more important than most new developers realize. Documentation in software development refers to the idea of giving your variables, functions and other identifiers descriptive names. It also refers to adding good comments. When you are immersed in developing your latest creation, it is easy to create
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Python 3.10 has several new typing features. They are given in detail here: PEP 604, Allow writing union types as X | Y PEP 613, Explicit Type Aliases PEP 612, Parameter Specification Variables The focus of this tutorial is to talk about PEP 604, which makes writing union types easier when adding type annotation (AKA:
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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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If you are a software developer or engineer, then you know it can be really helpful to have sample data. The data doesn’t have to be real data either. Instead, the data can be fake. For example, if you are writing a program that will process HIPAA data, then you won’t be using actual data
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Python 3.10 is coming out next month, so now is the time to start talking about the new features that it will contain. The core developers of Python recently announced that they are adding parenthesized context managers, which is a bugfix to a bug where Python 3.9 and earlier did not support parentheses for continuation
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Data visualizations are an important method of sharing your data with others. Some people refer to visualizations as plots, charts, or graphs. These names are synonymous in this article. Python has many 3rd party packages that do data visualizations. In fact, there are so many that it can be somewhat overwhelming. One of the oldest
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This week we welcome Déborah Mesquita as our PyDev of the Week! Déborah is a content writer at Real Python. You can see what she is up to over on her website or by checking out her GitHub profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know Déborah better! Can you tell us a little about
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When you create a graphical user interface for your amazing program, you want to add a little bit of yourself to the application. One way to do that is to use images as buttons. While some people find these types of buttons unintuitive because they don’t look like buttons, it is a legitimate way to
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You learned how to create a file search GUI with wxPython in an earlier tutorial. In this article, you will learn how to create a text search utility with wxPython. If you’d like to learn more about creating GUI applications, you should check out my book Creating GUI Applications with wxPython on Leanpub, Gumroad, or
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Application developers are always working with files. You create them whenever you write a new script or application. You write reports in Microsoft Word, you save emails or download books or music. Files are everywhere. Your web browser downloads lots of little files to make your browsing experience faster. When you write programs, you have
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Have you ever needed to search for a file on your computer? Most operating systems have a way to do this. Windows Explorer has a search function and there’s also a search built-in to the Start Menu now. Other operating systems like Mac and Linux are similar. There are also applications that you can download
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Do you need to work measurements often? What about converting from one unit of measurement to another? There is a Python package called Pint that makes working with quantities easy to do. Pint allows you do arithmetic operations between a numerical value and a quantity as well. You can see the many different unit types
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