This week I am putting my 2 most recent self-published books on Sale starting today through November 26th. ReportLab – PDF Processing with Python is available for $9.99: Leanpub Gumroad – Use offer code black18 JupyterLab 101 is available for $9.99: Leanpub Gumroad – Use offer code black18 You can also get my book, wxPython […]
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In this screencast, we learn about the popular SQLAlchemy package. SQLAlchemy is an Object Relational Mapper for Python that allows you to interface with databases in a “Pythonic” manner. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub Note: This video was recorded a couple of
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This week we welcome Mike Müller (@pyacademy) as our PyDev of the Week. Mike is the creator of Python Academy and has been teaching Python for over 14 years. Mike has spoken at PyCon for several years and was featured on the Talk Python podcast two years ago. Let’s take a few moments to learn
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In this screencast, I introduce the popular requests package, which is a replacement for Python’s urllib. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
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My latest book, Jupyter Notebook 101 is now officially released. You can purchase it at the following retailers: Amazon (Kindle or Paperback) Leanpub (mobi, epub and PDF) on sale for $9.99 until the end of November Gumroad (mobi, epub and PDF) You can also download a sample of the book from Leanpub. Get it for
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This week we welcome Frank Vieira as our PyDev of the Week. Frank is the creator of the Vibora package, a “fast, asynchronous and elegant Python web framework.” You can see what else Frank is up to over on his Github profile. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Frank better! Can you
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In this episode, we learn how we can use PyLine and PyFlakes to check our code for issues. Of course since this video was made, Flake8 and Python Black have become pretty popular, so you might want to check those out as well. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here
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I recently had the opportunity to get my second book, Python 201: Intermediate Python added to a bundle of other interesting programming books. It is called The Ultimate Programmer Super Stack and it is is a hand-curated collection of 25+ premium ecourses, bestselling ebooks, and bonus resources that will help new programmers: Learn a
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This week we welcome Bernat Gabor (@gjbernat) as our PyDev of the Week! Bernat is a core developer of the tox automation project. You can check out his Github to see what other open source projects he is a part of. Let’s take a few moments to learn more about Bernat! Can you tell us
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Malware was recently discovered on the Python Packaging Index that targets Windows users. The package was called colourama and if it had been installed, would end up installing malware on your PC. It is basically hoping that you will misspell the popular colorama pacakge. You can read more about the malware on Medium where it
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In this screencast, you will learn the basics of using the popular lxml (https://lxml.de/) package for parsing XML. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
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This week we welcome Anthony Sottile (@codewithanthony) as our PyDev of the Week! Anthony is one of the maintainers for the tox and pytest packages. He is also on the “deadsnakes” PPA team, which backports Python for certain EOL Linux distros. While you can discover a little about Anthony on his website, you will probably
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In this episode you will learn how to use the configobj package. This is a 3rd party package that I think is better and easier to use than Python’s built-in configparser module. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub Related Reading A Brief ConfigObj
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What are Jupyter widgets? A widget is an “eventful python object” that in the case of Jupyter Notebook, resides in the browser and is a user interface element, such as a slider or textbox. Jupyter supports a fairly wide array of widgets including the following: Numeric Boolean Selection String Image Button Output Animation Date picker
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The Jupyter Notebook has a feature known as widgets. If you have ever created a desktop user interface, you may already know and understand the concept of widgets. They are basically the controls that make up the user interface. In your Jupyter Notebook you can create sliders, buttons, text boxes and much more. We will
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