This week we welcome Amir Rachum as our PyDev of the Week. Amir is the author / maintainer of pydocstyle and yieldfrom. Amir also write a fun little blog about Python. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Amir better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I’m an […]
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Most applications come with the Status Bar. The status bar is the widget along the bottom of most applications that you use every day. They give you information about what line you’re editing in a text editor or when you last saved. In wxPython, you can add a status bar to your frame by using
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This week we welcome Andrew Godwin (@andrewgodwin) as our PyDev of the Week! Andrew is a core developer of the popular Python web framework, Django. Andrew maintains a blog of his adventures but if you’re more interested in his code, then you’ll want to check out his Github profile. You can also check out some
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This week we welcome Terry Peppers (@club_is_open) as our PyDev of the Week. Terry has been a very active member of the Testing in Python group and is quite active as an organizer for PyCon USA. You can get a feel for what projects interest him over on Github. Let’s take a few moments to
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This week’s PyDev of the Week is Harrison Kinsley. Harrison is the creator of a popular Python Youtube tutorial channel. He also maintains a website that is kind of a text version of his video tutorials here: https://pythonprogramming.net/. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Harrison better! Can you tell us a little
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The PyCon 2017 videos are already available on Youtube. Here are some highlights: The Vanderplas Keynote Raymond Hettinger’s “Modern Python Dictionaries — A confluence of a dozen great ideas” Brett Cannon’s “What’s New in Python 3.6?” And there’s much more here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrJhliKNQ8g0qoE_zvL8eVg/feed
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The second day of the PyCon 2017 conference was kicked off by breakfast with people from NASA and Pixar, among others, followed by several lightning talks. I didn’t see them all, but they were kind of fun. Then they moved on to the day’s first keynote by Lisa Guo & Hui Ding from Instagram. I
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This is my first PyCon in 6 years. My last being in Atlanta. This year, PyCon is in Portland, OR. My first conference day I managed to miss the morning talks due to rooms getting overly full. So I ended up on the hallway track instead and got to speak with various members of the
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I am putting my interactive Educative Python courses on Sale for PyCon this week. You can get Python 101 and Python 201: Intermediate Python for 50% off. Here are the coupon codes you can use: For Python 101 – au-pycon-py101 For Python 201 – au-pycon-py201 Educative is also doing a 50% off sale on their Python
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The wxPython GUI toolkit comes with many widgets. A common control is a tree widget. wxPython has several different tree widgets, including the regular wx.TreeCtrl, the newer DVC_TreeCtrl and the pure Python variants, CustomTreeCtrl and HyperTreeList. In this article, we will focus on the regular wx.TreeCtrl and learn the basics of how to create and
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This week we welcome Anand Balachandran Pillai as our PyDev of the Week! Anand is the author of a new book called Software Architecture with Python from Packt Publishing. He is the founder of the Bangalore Python Users Group (BangPypers) and a member of the Python Software Foundation. Let’s take a few moments to get
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This week we welcome Agata Grdal as our PyDev of the Week! Agata is heavily involved in her local Django Girls group in Europe as well as PyLadies. You can learn more about Agata on the DjangoGirls blog. Agata is also has some fun projects on her Github profile that you can check out. Let’s
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This week we welcome Jessica McKellar (@jessicamckellar) as our PyDev of the Week! Jessica is a former Director for the Python Software Foundation and a successful entrepreneur. She is also an author for O’Reilly and has been a core developer for the Twisted framework. You can check out her website or her Github profile to
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Learn about some of the amazing free resources you can use to learn the Python programming language!
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I stumbled across the pywebview project a couple of weeks ago. The pywebview package “is a lightweight cross-platform wrapper around a webview component that allows to display HTML content in its own native GUI window.” It uses WebKit on OSX and Linux and Trident (MSHTML) on Windows, which is actually what wxPython’s webview widget also
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