This week we welcome Alex Gaynor (@alex_gaynor) as our PyDev of the Week! Alex writes an interesting Python blog and is on the board of directors for the Python Software Foundation. You can get a feel for the projects that Alex contributes to via his Github page. Let’s spend some time getting to know him […]
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Check out my latest video from the Python 101 Screencast. In this episode we learn how to use Python’s file handling capabilities. You will learn how to read, write and append to a file.
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I recently recorded the next episode of Python 101. This one is on Exception Handling. I hope you like it:
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This week we welcome David Beazley (@dabeaz) as our PyDev of the Week! David is the author of the Python Essential Reference and the co-author of the Python Cookbook, Third edition. He also has a blog that I enjoyed when I was first learning Python, although I don’t think it’s updated much any more. You
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This week we welcome Rémy Hubscher as our PyDev of the Week! Rémy works for Mozilla and is a very active contributor to open source projects. Just check out his Github profile! Let’s spend some time getting to know him better.
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I finished up another Episode of Python 101. This one is about Python’s comprehension constructs. In this video, I cover list, dict and set comprehensions. I hope you enjoy it: You can support my Python 101 video project via my IndieGogo crowdfunding campaign, which is ending this week.
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This week we welcome Tarek Ziade (@tarek_ziade) as our PyDev of the Week! He is a contributor to a lot of open source projects, which you can see if you visit his Github profile. I have personally enjoyed some of his blog articles on Python. Let’s spend some time getting to know Tarek!
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I recorded the next episode of my Python 101 screencast today. You can support my crowdfunding campaign here. The video is about Python’s looping structures. You will also learn how to use the else construct with a loop. Here’s the video:
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This week we welcome Stephan Deibel as our PyDev of the Week. He is one of the co-founders of Wingware, the maker’s behind the popular Python IDE, Wing. I believe I met Stephan once at PyCon several years ago, although I doubt very much if he remembers it. Regardless, as a happy user of Wing,
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As many of you know, I relaunched my crowdfunding campaign for turning my book, Python 101, into a series of screencasts. I put together Episode #4 over the weekend. It’s about Python’s if statement. It ended up a bit longer than I expected, but I thought it went pretty well overall:
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This week we welcome Anna Ossowski (@OssAnna16) as our PyDev of the Week. Anna is an aspiring developer from Germany. She holds a degree in English and theology but fell in love with programming a while ago and is now working on building a career in the field. She is very involved in Django Girls.
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This week we welcome Gabriel Pettier (@tshirtman) as our PyDev of the Week. He is a core developer of the Kivy project and he writes a pretty interesting blog. Let’s spend some time getting to know our fellow Pythonista better!
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I’ve finally gotten the Python 101 Screencast campaign relaunched. However I have switched to IndieGogo for the here: http://igg.me/p/python-101-screencast/x/2068547 The reason for the switch is that they have lower fees and they also allow more types of payment. I always seem to get backers who can’t back my project because Kickstarter doesn’t support their payment
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This week we welcome Vasudev Ram (@vasudevram) as our PyDev of the Week. Vasudev is a freelance developer who blogs on lots of different software topics, including Python. He is the creator of xtopdf, which you can read more about here. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better!
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My first book, Python 101 is on sale this month. You can get it on Amazon US for $5.99 or you can buy it for 50% off via my website. To get 50% off, just enter the following offer code at checkout: may50