According to The Economist, Python is “becoming the world’s most popular coding language”. Here’s a chart that shows how popular the language is: There’s a lot of interesting information in that article and there’s some interesting conversation going on in this Reddit thread which is related to the article.
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When working with Jupyter Notebook, you will find yourself needing to distribute your Notebook as something other than a Notebook file. The most likely reason is that you want to share the content of your Notebook to non-technical users that don’t want to install Python or the other dependencies necessary to use your Notebook. The
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This week we welcome K Lars Lohn (@2braids) as our PyDev of the Week! He has been a part of the Python community for quite a few years. You can learn a bit more about him over on his blog or by checking out his Github account. Let’s spend some time getting to know him
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In this screencast you will learn the basics of profiling your code using Python’s built-in cProfile module. You can read the chapter this screencast is based on here – http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or get a copy of the book on Leanpub.
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There are several methods of extending the functionality of Jupyter Notebooks. Here are four of them: Kernels IPython kernel extensions Notebook extensions Notebook server extensions For the purposes of this article, I will be focusing on the third item, Notebook Extensions. However, let’s take a moment and talk about the other three so that you
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This week we welcome Jacqueline Kazil (@JackieKazil) as our PyDev of the Week! She is the co-author of Data Wrangling with Python. Jacqueline is the creator of the Mesa package. You can see what other projects she is working on by going to Github. Let’s take a few moments to get to know her better!
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In this screencast you will learn how to use lambdas in Python. You can read the chapter this screencast is based on here: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or purchase the book on Leanpub Related Articles Python 101: Lambda Basics The Python Lambda
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Jupyter Notebook can be turned into a slide presentation that is kind of like using Microsoft Powerpoint, except that you can run the slide’s code live! It’s really neat how well it works. The only con in my book is that there isn’t a lot of theming that can be applied to your slides, so
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This week we welcome Hillel Wayne (@Hillelogram) as our PyDev of the Week! Hillel is the author of “Learn TLA+” and is currently writing “Practical TLA+” with Apress. You should check out his website / blog as it is a good place to learn more about him. Hillel also recently spoke at PyCon US on
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In this episode, you will learn the basics of Python decorators and what the are good for. You can read the chapter this screencast is based on here: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or purchase the book on Leanpub You can also read about decorators in a couple of other articles on my blog: Python: All About Decorators Python
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I don’t usually write about my book writing while the book is in progress on my blog, but I know some readers probably wonder why there are times where I am not writing blog posts as regularly as I usually do. The reason is usually because I am deep into writing chapters for a book
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This week we welcome Younggun Kim (@scari_net) as our PyDev of the Week! Younggun has been on the board of directors for the Python Software Foundation and is the founder of PyCon Korea. He has translated several programming books into Korean. You can get the full list on his website. You can also check his
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A common UI element that you used to see a lot of was the Splash Screen. A splash screen is just a dialog with a logo or art on it that sometimes includes a message about how far along the application has loaded. Some developers use splash screens as a way to tell the user
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Learn the basics of using Python’s built-in debugger, pdb. Note that this screencast was recorded before Python 3.6 and 3.7 so it does not cover some of the new enhancements in the debugger. You can read the chapter this screencast is based on here: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/chapter24_debugging.html
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This week we welcome Oliver Bestwalter (@obestwalter) as our PyDev of the Week! He is one of the core developers of the tox automation project and the pytest package. He is also a speaker at several Python related conferences. You can learn more about Oliver on his website or on Github. Let’s take a few
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