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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This week we welcome Joshua Ebner (@Josh_Ebner) as our PyDev of the Week. Joshua trains people in data science at Sharp Sight. Let’s take some time to get to know Joshua better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): Professionally, I own a data science training company, Sharp Sight. My background
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This week’s PyDev of the Week is Paulus Schoutsen (@balloob). He is the founder of Home Assistant, an open source home automation tool / package. You can see what else Paulus is up to over on his GitHub profile. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Paulus better! Can you tell us a
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Texas Instruments announced that they are adding a new graphing calculator called TI-84 Plus CE Python. The TI-84 Plus uses CircuitPython rather than the standard Python that most developers are aware of. CircuitPython is made by AdaFruit for embedded devices, like a calculator. You can read more about CircuitPython being added to the calculator over
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This week we welcome Daniel Zingaro as our PyDev of the Week! Daniel is the author of Learn to Code by Solving Problems: A Python Programming Primer and Algorithmic Thinking from No Starch Books. If you’d like to see what else Daniel is up to, you should visit his website. Daniel even braved sky-diving once!
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OpenPyXL gives you the ability to style your cells in many different ways. Styling cells will give your spreadsheets pizazz! Your spreadsheets can have some pop and zing to them that will help differentiate them from others. However, don’t go overboard! If every cell had a different font and color, your spreadsheet would look like
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This week we welcome Patrick Arminio (@patrick91) as our PyDev of the Week! Patrick works on Strawberry GraphQL, a Python GraphQL library based on dataclasses. You can catch up with Patrick over on his website. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know Patrick better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education,
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This week we welcome Patrick Loeber (@python_engineer) as our PyDev of the Week! Paticks runs a popular Python YouTube channel that covers Python basics, machine learning, and more! You can learn more about Patrick over on his website or support his work on Patreon. Let’s spend some time getting to know Patrick better! Can you
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My 10th Python book is called Automating Excel with Python: Processing Spreadsheets with OpenPyXL. It only has 11 more days to go on Kickstarter where you can get an exclusive t-shirt! I also have the eBook available for pre-order on Gumroad. No matter whether you purchase a copy on Kickstarter or Gumroad, you will be
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Reading Excel spreadsheets is all well and good. However, you also need to be able to create or edit a spreadsheet. The focus of this chapter will be on learning how to do that! OpenPyXL lets you create Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with a minimum of fuss. Creating Excel spreadsheets using Python allows you to generate
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A couple of weeks ago, I was on the Talk Python Podcast to talk about creating desktop applications with wxPython. The recording of that talk was released today. We talked about many of the GUI frameworks in Python before turning out attention to my book, Creating GUI Applications with wxPython. You can listen to the
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This week we welcome Philipp Rudiger (@PhilippJFR) as our PyDev of the Week! Philipp is the creator of Panel, HoloViews and GeoViews. If you’re interested in the code that Philipp works on, then you should check out his GitHub profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know Philipp better! Can you tell us a little
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There are a couple of fundamental actions that you will do with Microsoft Excel documents. One of the most basic is the act of reading data from an Excel file. You will be learning how to get data from your Excel spreadsheets. Editor’s note: This article is based on a chapter from the book: Automating
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