There are lots of PDF related packages for Python. One of my favorite is PyPDF2. You can use it to extract metadata, rotate pages, split or merge PDFs and more. It’s kind of a Swiss-army knife for existing PDFs. In this article we will learn how to extract basic information about a PDF using PyPDF2 […]
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Anaconda put out a press release this morning that states the following: “Anaconda, the most popular Python data science platform provider, today introduced the Anaconda Data Science Certification, giving data scientists a way to verify their proficiency, and organizations an independent standard for qualifying current and prospective data science experts.” Anaconda is in a non-exclusive
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This week we welcome Edward Ream as our PyDev of the Week! Edward is the creator of the Leo (Leonine Editor with Outlines) text editor / outliner. He has been using Python since 2001. You can see what Edward has been working on over on Github. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better!
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This week we welcome Eric Snow (@ericsnowcrntly) as our PyDev of the Week! Eric is a core developer of the Python language. You can check out his blog where he post sporadically of his Github profile where you can see what he’s currently up to. Let’s spend some time getting to know Eric better! Can
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Last week I was honored to be a part of the Talk Python to Me Podcast. During the podcast, we talked about the history of Python as well as its future. We also talked about the books I have written and how I used Kickstarter to connect with my readers. We spent some time going
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This week we welcome Yusuke Tsutsumi as our PyDev of the Week! Yusuke is a web developer for Zillow and has been working on open source projects for several years. He has a blog where you can learn more about him as well as various programming languages. You can also check out what projects he’s been
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Python added the enum module to the standard library in version 3.4. The Python documentation describes an enum like this: An enumeration is a set of symbolic names (members) bound to unique, constant values. Within an enumeration, the members can be compared by identity, and the enumeration itself can be iterated over. Let’s look at
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This week we welcome Elias Dorneles as our PyDev of the Week! Elias works on the tooling of the Beeware Suite and contributes to several other projects too, all of which you can see on Github. He also has a programming blog that you can check out. Let’s take some time to learn more about
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When I first started this blog, ten years ago today, I never thought I would be blogging about Python for a decade. In fact, the very first post wasn’t even about the Python language itself, but about me going to PyCon in Chicago. In fact, I wrote 7 articles about that first PyCon event before
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Python 3.6 added another way to do string interpolation that is called “f-strings” or Formatted string literals (PEP 498). The idea behind f-strings is to make string interpolation simpler. To create an f-string, you just need to prefix the string with the letter “f”. The string itself can be formatted in much the same way
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This week we welcome Jason Myers as our PyDev of the Week! Jason is the co-author of Essential SQLAlchemy: Mapping Python to Databases, 2nd Edition and is also an instructor at DataCamp. If you have some free time, check out which Python packages he contributes too over on Github or visit his website. Let’s take
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The following is an excerpt from my book, Python Interviews Sebastian Raschka received his doctorate in Quantitative Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2017, from Michigan State University. Sebastian is the bestselling author of Python Machine Learning, which received the ACM Best of Computing award in 2016. Driscoll: Python is one of the languages
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This week we welcome Alan Vezina (@fancysandwiches) as our PyDev of the Week! He is one of the co-founders of PuPPy (Puget Sound Programming Python), a Python user’s group in Seattle, WA. He is also one of the organizers of PyCascades, a Python conference in Vancouver, BC. While Alan has a blog, it doesn’t appear to
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My Python Interviews book is now officially released! In it you will find 20 interviews with Python experts from a diverse set of fields. I also have a special code from Packt that will take 40% off the eBook for up to 1000 readers. Just apply the following code when you are checking out: PIMD40.
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One of my readers pointed out to me that Python 3.7 will now have ordered dictionaries by default. You can read the “announcement” over on the Python-Dev list. Python’s dict has always been unordered up until Python 3.6, when it was changed to be ordered based on a proposal by Raymond Hettinger, who is one
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