Pillow: Image Processing with Python is my latest book on the Python programming language. The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon. The paperback version of the book is in full color. That is why it more expensive than any of my other books to purchase. I put together a little video where […]
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This week we welcome Ngazetungue Muheue (@muheuenga) as our PyDev of the Week! Ngazetungue helps organize PyCon Namibia and is the co-founder of Python Namibia. He is an active speaker and a member of the Python Software Foundation. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better! Can you tell us a little about yourself
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This week we welcome Yuxi (Hayden) Liu as our PyDev of the Week! Hayden is the author of Python Machine Learning By Example and other books. You can connect with Hayden on LinkedIn. Now let’s spend some time getting to know Hayden better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I
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I recently did a talk on Python’s neat functools module. This screencast covers the majority of the module: Caching cache lru_cache total_ordering partial reduce singledispatch wraps Related Reading Mouse Vs Python – Partial Functions Real Python: Python’s reduce(): From Functional to Pythonic Style Mouse Vs Python – Function Overloading with singledispatch Mouse Vs Python
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This week we welcome John Sheehan (@JennaSys) as our PyDev of the Week. John is the author of React to Python. You can see what John has been up via his website or on his Github profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know John now! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies,
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This week we welcome Žan Anderle (@z_anderle) as our PyDev of the Week! Žan is a freelance software developer. You can check out his blog or check out his Github profile you’d like to know what he is up to. Let’s take some time to get to know Žan better! Can you tell us a
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This week we welcome Jens Winkelmann (@WinmanJ) as our PyDev of the Week! Jens is a former PhD researcher in the Foams and Complex System Group at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) but is now working as a Data Scientist at talpasolutions. You can find out more about what Jens does on his web page. Jens
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Once again the Python Packaging Index (PyPI) has been hit with malicious libraries. Over 3500 of them in fact. You can read more about this at The Register or the Sonatype Blog. The administrators at PyPI were quick to remove these libraries and minimize the risk of people installing them. On the plus side, these
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In this tutorial, I talk about some of Python’s most popular GUI frameworks. You will learn the basics of graphical user interfaces. Then you will learn how to create a simple image viewer using wxPython. Finally, you will see how to rewrite the image viewer using PySimpleGUI. Related Reading Creating an Image Viewer with PySimpleGUI
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This week we welcome Jonathan Hoffstadt (@jhoffs1) as our PyDev of the Week! Jonathan is the co-author of Dear PyGUI. It’s a neat, new Python GUI package. You can see what else Jonathan has been working on over on Github. Let’s spend some time getting to know Jonathan better! Can you tell us a little
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Drawing shapes on images is neat. But wouldn’t it be nice if you could draw the shapes interactively? That is the point of this tutorial. You will create a user interface using PySimpleGUI to allow you to draw shapes on images! The purpose of this user interface is to show you how you can make
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Pillow provides a drawing module called ImageDraw that you can use to create simple 2D graphics on your Image objects. According to Pillow’s documentation, “you can use this module to create new images, annotate or retouch existing images, and to generate graphics on the fly for web use.” If you need more advanced drawing capabilities
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This week we welcome Mariano Anaya (@rmarianoa) as our PyDev of the Week. Mariano is the author of Clean Code in Python and has been a speaker at EuroPython. You can see what he’s been working on over on Github or you can check out his website. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know
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Pillow: Image Processing with Python is my latest book on Python. It is now available for pre-order. What that means is that you can purchase an early version of the book and get all the updates to it for free after purchase, including the final edition. The final edition will be done in April 2021.
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Built-ins are a somewhat overlooked part of Python. You use them every day, but there are a number of them that get overlooked or just aren’t used to their full potential. This article won’t be covering all the built-ins in Python, but will focus on the ones that you probably don’t use every day. any()
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