Leanpub is featuring my second book on their homepage today: You can get the book for 50% off until tomorrow by using the following link: http://leanpub.com/python201/c/50percent Python 201 covers the following topics: Part I – Intermediate Modules Chapter 1 – The argparse module Chapter 2 – The collections module Chapter 3 – The contextlib module […]
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Today I am releasing my first book, Python 101, for free for 48 hours. Python 101 was written as an introduction to the Python programming language. While it is intended for beginners, some have claimed that they needed more hand-holding than this book provided for them. So I currently recommend it as an introductory and
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This week we welcome Al Sweigart as our PyDev of the Week. Al is the author of the PyAutoGUI and Pyperclip packages. He is also the author of several Python books such as: Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python Making Games with Python & Pygame
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I am happy to announce that I now have all the chapters for my latest book, wxPython Cookbook, ready to be checked out. I still consider the book to be in beta mode as I need to go through each chapter and check them over as much as possible this month, but I am also
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This week we welcome Maurits van Rees (@mauritsvanrees) as our PyDev of the Week. Maurits is a core developer of the Plone project as a member of the Plone Security Team and the Plone Release Team. He is also a maintainer of zest.releaser. You can find out more about what Maurits has been up to
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Over the summer, I came across an interesting plotting library called GooPyCharts which is a Python wrapper for the Google Charts API. In this article, we will spend a few minutes learning how to use this interesting package. GooPyCharts follows syntax that is similar to MATLAB and is actually meant to be an alternative to
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This week we welcome Brianna Laugher as our PyDev of the Week! Brianna is the organizer behind her local PyLadies chapter in Australia. She has a very interesting website that displays her work. You might also find her Github profile illuminating. Let’s take some time getting to know our fellow Pythonista better! Can you tell
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I decided it would be fun to give my latest book away for free until this Wednesday, Oct 19th. So starting today, you can get Python 201: Intermediate Python free through Gumroad or Leanpub. If you go with Gumroad, then you will need to use the following offer code: 201free. Note that if you want
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This week we welcome Glyph Lefkowitz (@glyph) as our PyDev of the Week! Glyph is the creator / maintainer of Twisted, an asynchronous event-driven networking engine. Glyph finds the time to write a blog that you might find quite interesting. You can also check out Github to see what projects he’s involved with. Let’s spend
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For the past couple of years, I’ve been writing automated tests for my employer. One of the many types of tests that I do is comparing how an application draws. Does it draw the same way every single time? If not, then we have a serious problem. An easy way to check that it draws
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This week we welcome Paul Logston (@PaulLogston) as our PyDev of the Week! Paul is the new maintainer for Pyvideo.org. He took over for Will Kahn-Greene. You can read more about the transition here. He is also an organizer for his local Python Users Group. You might want to take a few moments to check
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The Python Imaging Library or PIL allowed you to do image processing in Python. The original author, Fredrik Lundh, wrote one of my favorite Python blogs when I first started learning Python. However PIL’s last release was way back in 2009 and the blog also stopped getting updated. Fortunately, there were some other Python folks
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I think it’s very important for teens and college students to learn how to program. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics is such a crucial set of topics to learn about that I have decided to give away copies of Python 101 and Python 201: Intermediate Python to teachers and professors starting today until 11:59 p.m.
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This week we welcome Bryan Van de Ven (@bigreddot) as our PyDev of the Week! Bryan is a core developer of the Bokeh project, which is a visualization package for Python. He has also helped with the development of Anaconda. You can check out what projects he is a part of on Github. Let’s take
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I am excited to announce that the wxPython Cookbook is now available for Pre-Order. You can get your digital copy on Gumroad or Leanpub now. You can get a sample of the book on Leanpub if you’d like to “try before you buy”. There will be over 50 recipes in this book. The examples in
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