This week we welcome Frank Valcarcel (@fmdfrank) as our PyDev of the Week! He is the cofounder of Cuttlesoft. If you’d like to see what projects Frank is working on, head on over to Github. Let’s take some time to learn more about Frank! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): […]
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to drag an image into your #wxPython application and display it to your user. If you enjoy this video, you may want to check out my book, Creating GUI Applications with wxPython, available on Leanpub and Amazon.
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This week we welcome William Cox as our PyDev of the Week. William is a data scientist who has spoken at a few Python conferences. He maintains a blog where you can catch up on what’s new with him Let’s spend a few moments getting to know William better! Can you tell us a little
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Recently CodingNomads invited me on their Tech Talk series. CodingNomads does online code camps for Python and Java. The Tech Talks are a series of videos that teach or talk about tech. In my case, I got to talk about my favorite programming language, Python! The first talk I did was on wxPython. In this
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to add an image to your panel so that you have a background image to put your widgets on.
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This week we welcome Jim Anderson (@jimande75053775) as our PyDev of the Week! Jim is a contributing writer for Real Python. You can see some of the things that Jim works on in his spare time over on Github. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Jim better! Can you tell us a
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In this video tutorial, you will learn how to add icons to your wxPython application’s title bar. This is a nice feature to add to your application to give your program some branding.
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JavaScript Object Notation, more commonly known as JSON, is a lightweight data interchange format inspired by JavaScript object literal syntax. JSON is easy for humans to read and write. It is also easy for computers to parse and generate. JSON is used for storing and exchanging data in much the same way that XML is
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My latest book, Python 101 (2nd Edition), is now available on Leanpub (PDF, epub, mobi) and Amazon (paperback / Kindle). I rewrote Python 101 almost completely from scratch. I used the original as a guide, but this book is completely fresh. It is based on Python 3.8 and covers lots of beginner and intermediate topics.
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This week we welcome Débora Azevedo (@pydebb) as our PyDev of the Week! Débora is active in the PyLadies and DjangoGirls groups as well as teaching Python at PyLadies workshops. Let’s spend some time getting to know her better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I’m an educator. I love
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In this tutorial, you will learn about Python’s comprehensions, like the popular list comprehension and the dictionary comprehension. Would you like to learn more about Python? Python 101 – 2nd Edition Purchase now on Leanpub or Amazon
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Python to crop a photo using Pillow, the friendly fork of the Python Imaging Library. Would you like to learn more about Python? Python 101 – 2nd Edition Purchase now on Leanpub
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In this wxPython tutorial, you will learn how to make your label flash. This is a useful way to get a user’s attention when something goes wrong.
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This week we welcome Nathan Epstein (@epstein_n) as our PyDev of the Week! Nathan has given talks on various subjects all over the world. He has also written articles for Dev.to, Codewords and more. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Nathan better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education,
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to use for and while loops in Python. Specifically, you’ll learn how to: Create a for loop Loop over a string Loop over a dictionary Extract multiple values from a tuple Use enumerate with loops Create a while loop Breakout of a loop Use continue Use else with
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