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Anaconda Partners with Teradata for AI with Python packages in the Cloud

Packaging, Python / Mike / April 9, 2024 / Python

Anaconda has announced a new partnership with Teradata to bring Python and R packages to Teradata VantageCloud through the Anaconda Repository. But what does that mean? This new partnership allows engineers to: Rapidly deploy and operationalize AI/ML developed using open-source Python and R packages. Unlock innovation and the full potential of data at scale with a […]

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Python 3.13 Allows Disabling of the GIL + subinterpreters

beginner, Python 3 / Mike / March 14, 2024 / Python, Python3

Python 3.13 adds the ability to remove the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) per PEP 703. Just this past week, a PR was merged in that allows the disabling of the GIL using a command line flag or an environment variable in free-threaded builds. Note that Python must be built using the Py_GIL_DISABLED flag for this

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NEW COURSE: Python 101 Video Course on Udemy and TutorialsPoint

beginner, Python / Mike / March 13, 2024 / Python

I recently put my Python 101 Video Course up on Udemy and TutorialsPoint. There are one thousand free copies of the course available on Udemy by using the following link: https://www.udemy.com/course/python-101-c/?couponCode=A9CBEA3F6A1790FA40FF If you prefer TutorialsPoint, you can get a free copy here: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python-101-with-mike-driscoll/index.asp Use coupon code: py101 The Python 101 video course is also available

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uv – Python’s Fastest Package Installer and Resolver

beginner, Packaging, Python / Mike / February 27, 2024 / Packaging, Python

There’s a new Python package installer out now and it’s called uv. The uv package installer and resolver is made by Astral. Uv is written in Rust instead of Python and is super fast! Astral is best known for Python’s fastest formatter, Ruff. The uv package is meant to be a drop-in replacement for pip and pip-tools.

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NEW COURSE: Automating Excel with Python on Udemy

beginner, Python / Mike / February 20, 2024 / Automation, Excel, Python

In Automating Excel with Python: Processing Spreadsheets with OpenPyXL, you will learn how to use Python to create, edit, or read Microsoft Excel documents using OpenPyXL. This course is based on the book, Automating Excel with Python by Michael Driscoll. Python is a versatile programming language. You can use Python to read, write and edit

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Episode 27 – Python Formatters with Lukasz Langa

beginner, Python / Mike / February 7, 2024 / Podcast, Python

Episode 27 of The Python Show Podcast welcomes Lukasz Langa as our guest. Lukasz is a CPython Developer in Residence, which means he works full-time on the core CPython language. He is also the creator of Black, a super popular Python code formatter. In this episode, we talked about the following topics: Core python development

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Creating a Modal Dialog For Your TUIs in Textual

GUI Toolkits, Python / Mike / February 6, 2024 / Python, Textual, TUI

Textual is a Python package that you can use to create beautiful text-based user interfaces (TUIs). In other words, you can create a GUI in your terminal with Textual. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a modal dialog in your terminal. Dialogs are great ways to alert the user about something or

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Viewing an Animated GIF with Python

beginner, Python / Mike / December 5, 2023 / jupyter, Python

Animated GIFs are a fun way to share silent videos on social media. This website has a tutorial to help you learn how to create your own animated GIFs with Python. But what if you wanted to view an animated GIF with Python? If you’re wondering if Python can present an animated GIF to the

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Episode 23 – The Ruff Formatter with Charlie Marsh

beginner, Python / Mike / November 27, 2023 / linter, Python

The Ruff linter is a Python linter written in Rust that is super fast. The people behind Ruff recently released a new tool that is a part of Ruff that allows Ruff to format your Python code using the Black rules. In this episode, I speak with Charlie Marsh, the original creator of Ruff and the founder of Astral,

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Black Friday Python Deals 2023

beginner, Python / Mike / November 20, 2023 / Python

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner, so let’s start the holidays early with some amazing Python-related deals! You can take 33% off ANY of my self-published books on Gumroad by using the following coupon code: black23 I am also running a 33% off sale on all my Python courses over on Teach Me Python using the

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Episode 22 – Git and Django with Adam Johnson

beginner, Python / Mike / November 17, 2023 / Podcast, Python

You may know Adam from all his work around the Django web framework. If you head to the Python Package Index (PyPI), you will see that Adam has made or contributed to more than 80 projects! Adam recently released a new book called Boost Your Git DX Listen in as we chat about: Book writing Django Python

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Using CSS to Style a Python TUI with Textual

Python, Python GUI Toolkits / Mike / November 15, 2023 / Python, Textual, TUI

Textual is a Python framework for creating Text Based user interfaces (TUIs). You can create graphical user interfaces in your terminal with Textual. If you haven’t heard of Textual before, check out An Intro to Textual – Creating Text User Interfaces with Python In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and style a

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PyDev of the Week: Phil Ewels

PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / November 13, 2023 / Python

This week, we welcome Phil Ewels as our PyDev of the Week! Phil is the creator of the rich-click package. You can find Phil on Twitter, Mastodon, or BlueSky. You can also catch up with Phil over on GitHub. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know Phil better! Can you tell us a little

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Episode 21 – Sanic – The Async Python Web Framework

beginner, Python, Web / Mike / November 10, 2023 / Python, Python Web Frameworks

Python has many remarkable web frameworks to choose from. Sanic is another excellent web framework and one of the first to support async programming. Sanic is built to be able to build fast and run fast. In this episode, we talk to Adam Hopkins, one of the maintainers of the Sanic web framework. We discuss the following

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wxPython 101 – wx.NewId() is Deprecated!

beginner, intermediate, Python, wxPython / Mike / November 9, 2023 / Python, wxPython

Deprecation warnings are handy ways for open-source maintainers to alert their users that some part of their package is no longer going to be supported. Good maintainers will provide migration guides that tell you what to do when you see a deprecation warning. You don’t want to ignore a deprecation warning because it alerts you

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