Packt Publishing recently released a new book called Modern Python Cookbook by Steven Lott. It’s sub-title is “133 recipes to develop flawless and expressive programs in Python 3.8, 2nd Edition”, which may give you some indication that this is a big book. In fact, it clocks in at 822 pages! I first read Lott’s Mastering […]
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In this screencast, you will learn how to change the transparency of your application. This will allow you to make your application fade in or out.
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to reset the background color of your application to the default color.
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In this video, you will learn how to create conditional statements using the Python programming language. Specifically, you will learn about the following topics: Comparison operators Creating a simple conditional Branching conditional statements Nesting conditionals Logical operators Special operators
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This week we welcome Connor Ferster as our PyDev of the Week! Connor is the author of handcalcs which was recently featured on the PythonBytes Podcast. You can see more of Connor’s work on Github. Let’s spend some time getting to know Connor now! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc):
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In case you missed it earlier this month, Blackberry released a tool of theirs that they use for reverse engineering malware. That tool is called PE Tree and is open-source and written in Python. Blackberry used the popular PyQt5 GUI toolkit to write that displays a tree view of portable executables, which makes it easier
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This week we welcome Ethan Smith (@ethanhs) as our PyDev of the Week! Ethan is a core developer of the Mypy project, which is a static type checker for Python. You can see what other projects Ethan contributes to over on Github. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know Ethan better! Can you tell
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In this video tutorial, you will learn how Python’s Boolean operators work. You will also learn about Python’s None keyword Did you enjoy the video? Check out the book that it’s based on: Python 101 – 2nd Edition.
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This week we welcome Jason Coombs (@jaraco) as our PyDev of the Week! Jason is the maintainer of twine, SetupTools, CherryPy and 140+ other Python packages. You can see what he’s currently working on by checking out Github. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Jason better! Can you tell us a little
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This week we welcome Julia Signell (@JSignell) as our PyDev of the Week! She helps develop Holoviz, a browser-based data visualization open source package for Python and Conda. Julia is also a co-organizer for PyDataPHL. Let’s spend some time getting to know Julia better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc):
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In this video you will learn about the basics of Python’s dictionary data type. You will cover the following: Create dictionaries Access dictionaries Dictionary methods Modifying dictionaries Deleting from your dictionary Buy the book: Python 101 2nd Edition Get the code on Github
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Cyborg Security reported recently that malware is starting to appear that has been written using the Python programming language. Traditionally, most malware has been written in compiled languages, such as C or C++. The reason is simple. Compiled languages let the attacker create smaller, harder to detect, executables. However, Python’s popularity and ease of use
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The Python community is amazing. I started learning Python over 15 years ago and the community was almost always very supportive in helping me figure things out. However, the past few years there seems to have been a shift. I’m not sure if it’s just because Python has grown so much in popularity or if
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This week we welcome Or Carmi (@liiight) as our PyDev of the Week! Or is the creator and maintainer of notifiers. You can see what else Or has been up to by checking out his Github profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know Or better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies,
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I am on the latest Real Python podcast where I talk about my ReportLab book, wxPython, and lots more. The podcast episode that I take part in is called Episode 20: Building PDFs in Python with ReportLab. Check it out and feel free to ask questions in the comments. Related Articles Talk Python Podcast and
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