This week we welcome Kyle Stanley (@aeros_py) as our PyDev of the Week! Kyle is a core developer of the Python programming language. If you’d like to see what Kyle is working on, you can check out his Github profile. You can also connect with Kyle on LinkedIn. Let’s spend some time getting to know […]
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This week we welcome Dong-hee Na (@dongheena92) as our PyDev of the Week! Dong-hee is a core developer of the Python programming language. You can see some of what he has been working on over on Github. Let’s take some time to get to know him better! Can you tell us a little about yourself
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This week we welcome Seth Michael Larson (@sethmlarson) as our PyDev of the Week! Seth is the lead maintainer of urllib3. He also writes a Python blog. You can see some of Seth’s other contributions over on Github. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Seth better! Can you tell us a little
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There are many times when you are writing code that you will need to find a way to iterate over something. Perhaps you’ll need to iterate over the letters in a string or the objects in a list. The process of iterating over something is done via a loop. A loop is a programming construct
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This week we welcome Cristi Vlad (@CristiVlad25) as our PyDev of the Week! Cristi teaches cybersecurity with Python on his Youtube Channel. He has also authored some books and writes on his blog. You can see his books there too. Let’s take some time to get to know Cristi better! Can you tell us a
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Learn how to create a basic cross-platform image viewer using wxPython and Python This video is based on one of the examples from my book, Creating GUI Applications with wxPython, which you can purchase at the following: Amazon Leanpub The code for this example can be found in chapter 2 of the book as well
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This week we welcome Qiusheng Wu (@giswqs) as our PyDev of the Week! Qiusheng has developed several Python packages that you can check out on Github. Specifically they are geemap, lidar, whitebox and they are used for advanced geospatial analysis. Qiusheng also has a website where you can learn more about his research and interests.
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Learn how to use Python’s logging module in this screencast: You will learn about the following: Creating a log Logging Levels Logging Handlers Logging Formatters Logging to Multiple Locations and more!
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This week we welcome Jan Giacomelli (@jangiacomelli) as our PyDev of the Week. Jan is an entrepreneur and blogs about Python. You can see what projects Jan contributes to over on Github. Let’s spend a few minutes and get to know Jan better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I’ve
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This week we welcome Samuel Hinton (@samreayh) as our PyDev of the Week! Samuel has written quite a few projects in Python and given lots of talks on astronomy. If you are interested in either of those topics, then you should definitely check out his website or his Github profile. Let’s take a few moments
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Developers have to make decisions all the time. How do you approach this problem? Do you use technology X or technology Y? Which programming language(s) can you use to solve this? Your code also sometimes needs to make a decision. Here are some common things that code checks every day: Are you authorized to do
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A set data type is defined as an “unordered collection of distinct hashable objects” according to the Python 3 documentation. You can use a set for membership testing, removing duplicates from a sequence and computing mathematical operations, like intersection, union, difference, and symmetric difference. Due to the fact that they are unordered collections, a set
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This week we welcome Gaetan Delannay as our PyDev of the Week! Gaetan is the creator of Appy, a Python web framework and an entrepreneur. Let’s spend some time getting to know Gaetan better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): It is quite unusual for me to talk about myself,
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This week we welcome Cheukting Ho (@cheukting_ho) as our PyDev of the Week. Cheuk is an organizer for EuroPython and various Python sprints. You can find our more about her accomplishments on her website or see what open source projects she is a part of over on Github. Let’s take some time to get to
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Type checking or hinting is a newer feature of Python that was added in Python 3.5. Type hinting is also known as type annotation. Type hinting is adding special syntax to functions and variable declarations that tell the developer what type the argument or variable is. Python does not enforce the type hints. You can
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