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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PySimpleGUI makes creating applications easy. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use PySimpleGUI to create a simple Image Viewer. You will be using the regular version of PySimpleGUI, which wraps Tkinter, rather than its wxPython or PyQt variants. Let’s get started! Getting Started You need to install PySimpleGUI as it is not included
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This week we welcome Aly Sivji (@CaiusSivjus) as our PyDev of the Week. Aly is an organizer for the Chicago Python Users Group (ChiPy), one of the largest Python groups around. If you’d like to see what Aly is up to, you can visit his blog or check out his Github profile. You can also
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This week we welcome Bojan Miletic as our PyDev of the Week! Bojan is an entrepreneur and given talks at EuroPython on Django testing. If you’d like to learn more about Bojan, you can connect with him on LinkedIn. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better! Can you tell us a little about
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The Pillow package lets you draw text on images using Python. This includes using TrueType and OpenType fonts. You have a lot of flexibility when adding this text to your images. If you’d like to know more, you should check out Drawing Text on Images with Pillow and Python. Note: The code and fonts used
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Pillow supports drawing text on your images in addition to shapes. Pillow uses its own font file format to store bitmap fonts, limited to 256 characters. Pillow also supports TrueType and OpenType fonts as well as other font formats supported by the FreeType library. In this chapter, you will learn about the following: Drawing Text
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This week we welcome Carl Friedrich Bolz (@cfbolz) as our PyDev of the Week! Carl is a core developer of PyPy, which is an RPython variant of CPython that runs faster in general than regular Python. If you’d like to know more about what Carl is up to, you can check out his Github profile.
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Python has the concept of the virtual environments built-in to the language. A Python virtual environment is an environment where you can install 3rd party packages for testing without affecting the system Python installation. Each virtual environment has its own set of installed packages and, depending on the virtual environment and how it’s set up,
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The Pillow package gives you the ability to extract Exif (Exchangeable Image File Format) metadata from images. You can get a lot of information about your images via the Exif data. However, there are some key data points that are more useful than others. For those pieces of data, it’s nice to create a GUI
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My Kickstarter for my latest book, Pillow: Image Processing with Python is ending in 8 days. You should check it out and learn how you can edit photos with Python! You will learn about the following topics in this book: Chapter 1 – Pillow Basics Chapter 2 – Colors Chapter 3 – Getting Image Metadata
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This week we welcome Leodanis Pozo Ramos (@lpozo78) as our PyDev of the Week! Leodanis is a contributor and author for Real Python. You can see some of his projects over on Github or see what he’s up to on his own website. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know Leodanis better! Can you
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When you are creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs), you will often find that you need to create more than one window. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create two windows with PySimpleGUI. PySimpleGUI is one of the easiest Python GUIs to get started with. It wraps other Python GUIs and gives them a
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This week we welcome Claudia Regio (@ClaudiaRegio) as our PyDev of the Week! Claudia is a program manager for Python Data Science with a focus on Python Notebooks in Visual Studio Code at Microsoft. She also blogs on Microsoft’s dev blog. Let’s spend some time getting to know Claudia better! Can you tell us a
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Did you know that you can get EXIF data from JPG image files using the Python programming language? You can use Pillow, the Python Imaging Library’s friendly fork to do so. You can read an article about that on this website if you want to. Here is some example code for getting regular EXIF data
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Python 101 2nd Edition is the latest version of Python 101. This book is meant to help you learn Python and then go beyond the basics. I’ve always felt that a beginner’s book should teach more than syntax. If you’d like to try out Python 101, you can do so for FREE for the next
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