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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This week we welcome David Litvak (@dlitvakb) as our PyDev of the Week! He has presented at PyCon Argentina and PyCaribbean. Feel free to check out his website or Github to see what he’s been up to. Now let’s take some time to learn more about David! Can you tell us a little about yourself
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There is only a little over 2 days left for my ReportLab book Kickstarter. This is your only chance to purchase a signed copy of the book and it’s also probably the cheapest way of getting the eBooks too! I currently have 7 chapters done with number 8 nearing completion. There are over 170 pages
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This week we welcome Juan Luis Cano (@astrojuanlu) as our PyDev of the Week! He is the chair of the Python Spain non-profit and the author of the poliastro project. If you can read Spanish, then you might want to check out his website. Otherwise you can definitely take a look at his Github profile
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I thought it would be fun to create a sample of the book so you can get an idea of what the book will be like. So I created a PDF that contains the first 3 chapters of the book for you. Download Sample Note that the format of this sample is not quite right
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I really like coming up with fun covers for my books. I also like to find new artists for each book so that they all end up looking unique. I do plan to re-use one or two artists at some point though. Anyway, for the ReportLab book I happened to stumble across Therese Larsson’s website and I really
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This week we welcome Emily Morehouse-Valcarcel (@emilyemorehouse) as our PyDev of the Week. Emily is the co-founder and Director of Engineering of Cuttlesoft. She recently spoke at PyCascades about Python’s AST. You can get a feel for what projects she is interested in over on her Github profile. Let’s take a few moments to get
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I am happy to announce another book that I have been working on called Python Interviews from Packt Publishing. Here is the blurb from their website: Python Interviews contains a series of one-to-one interviews between Mike Driscoll and a variety of leading figures in the Python community. Mike is a life-long member of the Python
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The ReportLab toolkit provides multiple ways for you to generate text on your PDFs. The most popular examples that I have seen are using canvas methods or using PLATYPUS. The canvas method that you will likely see the most is drawString. Here is an example: from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas c = canvas.Canvas(“hello.pdf”) c.drawString(100, 100, “Welcome
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