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Thousands of Scientific Papers May be Invalid Due to Misunderstanding Python

Python / Mike / October 13, 2019 / Python

It was recently discovered that several thousand scientific articles could be invalid in their conclusions because scientists did not understand that Python’s glob.glob() does not return sorted results. This is being reported on by Vice, Slashdot and there’s an interesting discussion going on over on Reddit as well. Some are reporting this as a glitch […]

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PyDev of the Week: Paul Ivanov

1 Comment / PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / October 7, 2019 / Python

This week we welcome Paul Ivanov (@ivanov) as our PyDev of the Week! Paul is a core developer of IPython and Jupyter. He is also an instructor at Software Carpentry. You can learn more about Paul on his website. You can also see what he’s been up to in open source by visiting his Github

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PyDev of the Week: Marlene Mhangami

1 Comment / PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / September 30, 2019 / Python

This week we welcome Marlene Mhangami (@marlene_zw) as our PyDev of the Week! Marlene is the PyCon Africa (@pyconafrica) chair, the co-founder of @zimbopy and a director for the Python Software Foundation. Let’s spend some time getting to know her! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): Sure, in college I

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PyDev of the Week: Peter Farrell

1 Comment / Books, PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / September 23, 2019 / Python

This week we welcome Peter Farrell (@hackingmath) as our PyDev of the Week! Peter is the author Math Adventures with Python and two other math related Python books. You can learn more about Peter by visiting his website. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Peter! Can you tell us a little about

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Python Code Kata: Fizzbuzz

Python, Testing / Mike / September 18, 2019 / Python, TDD

A code kata is a fun way for computer programmers to practice coding. They are also used a lot for learning how to implement Test Driven Development (TDD) when writing code. One of the popular programming katas is called FizzBuzz. This is also a popular interview question for computer programmers. The concept behind FizzBuzz is

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PyDev of the Week: Veronica Hanus

1 Comment / PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / September 16, 2019 / Python

This week we welcome Veronica Hanus (@veronica_hanus) as our PyDev of the Week! Veronica is a regular tech speaker at Python and other tech conferences and meetups. You can see some of her talks and her schedule on her website. She has been active in the Python community for the past few years. Let’s take

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wxPython – Creating a PDF Merger / Splitter Utility

Books, Cross-Platform, GUI Toolkits, Python, wxPython / Mike / September 10, 2019 / Books, Python, wxPython

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a well-known format popularized by Adobe. It purports to create a document that should render the same across platforms. Python has several libraries that you can use to work with PDFs: ReportLab – Creating PDFs PyPDF2 – Manipulating preexisting PDFs pdfrw – Also for manipulating preexisting PDFs, but also

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PyDev of the Week: Aymeric Augustin

1 Comment / PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / September 9, 2019 / Python

This week we welcome Aymeric Augustin (@aymericaugustin) as our PyDev of the Week. Aymeric is a core developer of Django, a Python web framework. He is also an entrepreneur and speaker at several Django related conferences. You can catch up with Aymeric over on his website or check out his FOSS contributions on Github. Let’s

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Rotating Images in ReportLab

Python, ReportLab / Mike / September 5, 2019 / Python, Reportlab

There are times when you want to rotate images or other objects in ReportLab while creating a PDF. For example, you might want to rotate an image by 45 degrees for watermarking purposes. Or you might need an image that runs vertically along one of the edges of the PDF. You can rotate images by

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Lucid Programming Podcast – Writing Books About Python

1 Comment / Books, Python / Mike / September 4, 2019 / Python

I was recently interviewed on the Lucid Programming Podcast by Vincent Russo about writing books about Python. You can listen to the audio here: If you’d like to know more about how I write books, you might enjoy this article I wrote on the topic. I also wrote an article on the Pros and Cons

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PyDev of the Week: Katherine Kampf

2 Comments / PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / September 2, 2019 / Python

This week we welcome Katherine Kampf (@kvkampf) as our PyDev of the Week! Katherine is a Program Manager at Microsoft, specifically for Azure Notebooks, which is Microsoft’s version of Jupyter Notebook. She also recently gave a talk at EuroPython 2019. Let’s take a few moments getting to know Katherine better! Can you tell us a

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Profitable Python Episode: Put Your Family First

Python / Mike / August 26, 2019 / Podcast, Python

I was a guest on the Profitable Python podcast this week. You can check it out here: During the interview, I was asked how I would like to have Python runnable in the browser and I couldn’t recall the name of a product that makes this sort of thing possible. The product I was thinking

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PyDev of the Week: Frank Wiles

1 Comment / PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / August 26, 2019 / Python

This week we welcome Frank Wiles (@fwiles) as our PyDev of the Week! Frank is the President and Founder of Revolution Systems and President of the Django Software Foundation. If you’d like to know about Frank, you should take a moment to check out his website or his Github account. For now, let’s take some

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PyDev of the Week: Paul Ganssle

3 Comments / PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / August 19, 2019 / Python

This week we welcome Paul Ganssle (@pganssle) as our PyDev of the Week. Paul is the maintainer of the dateutil package and also a maintainer of the setuptools project. You can catch up with Paul on his website or check out some of his talks. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Paul

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An Intro to Flake8

1 Comment / Debugging, Python / Mike / August 13, 2019 / Python

Python has several linters that you can use to help you find errors in your code or warnings about style. For example, one of the most thorough linters is Pylint. Flake8 is described as a tool for style guide enforcement. It is also a wrapper around PyFlakes, pycodestyle and Ned Batchelderâ€™s McCabe script. You can

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