We are coming into the last week of the Kickstarter and I thought I would give you all a quick update. I finished writing up the chapter on creating a calculator today and got started on chapter 7. I also wanted to let you know what the current table of contents looks like right now: […]
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This week we welcome Ali Spittel (@ASpittel) as our PyDev of the Week! Ali is a blogger and speaker and enjoys teaching about tech. You can see what code she’s been writing over on Github. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Ali better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies,
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In this screencast, we will learn how to turn your Python application into a Windows installer using Inno Setup. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
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I recently had the opportunity to partner with Sundeep Agarwal, the author of Python re(gex)? to create a bundle with my second book, Python 201: Intermediate Python. The Python Regex book covers Regular Expressions in Python. While only 50 pages in length, it has lots of examples that you can use to learn all about
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I am currently working on a new book entitled Creating GUI Applications with wxPython that you can support on Kickstarter. This is the current table of contents for the book: Chapter 1 – Intro to wxPython Chapter 2 – Creating an Image Viewer Chapter 3 – Enhancing the Image Viewer Chapter 4 – Creating a
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This week we welcome Lorena Mesa (@loooorenanicole) as our PyDev of the Week! Lorena is an organizer for the PyLadies Chicago group and a director at the Python Software Foundation. You can check out some of the things that she is up to on her blog or via her Github page. Let’s spend a few
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In this screencast, we will learn how to turn your Python code into a Windows executable file using the PyInstaller project. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
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The Kickstarter campaign for my latest book has been going quite well, so I thought it would be fun to share some sample chapters of the book with you. You can check out the first couple of chapters here as a PDF. I have also been doing some experiments with regards to some of the
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This week we welcome Nina Zakharenko (@nnja) as our PyDev of the Week! Nina has been active in the Python community for several years and has spoken or keynoted dozens of conferences. She has also contributed to the Python core language! If you’d like to see what she is up to, check out her blog.
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In this screencast, we will learn how to turn your Python code into a Windows executable file using the cx_Freeze project. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
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I am pleased to announce my latest book project, Creating GUI Applications with wxPython which I am running a Kickstarter campaign for. Creating GUI Applications with wxPython is a book that will teach you how to use wxPython to create applications by actually creating several mini-programs. I have found that while learning how the various
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This week we welcome Lance Bragstad (@LanceBragstad) as our PyDev of the Week! Lance is a core developer of the OpenStack project. You can find out more about his passions via his website or his Github profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know Lance! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education,
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In this screencast, we will learn how to turn your Python code into a Windows executable file using the bbfreeze project. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub Related Reading A bbfreeze Tutorial – Build a Binary Series!
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This week we welcome Kushal Das (@kushaldas) as our PyDev of the Week! Kushal is a core developer of the Python programming language and a co-author of PEP 582. You can learn more about Kushal by checking out his blog or his Github profile. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Kushal better!
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The wxPython GUI toolkit has a very rich and powerful Grid widget that I have written about previously on this blog. It allows you to create sheets of cells similar to those in Microsoft Excel. There is also a neat mixin that allows you to apply a custom renderer to the labels on the columns
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