It’s that time of year again when you can get great deals on Python books and courses! You can take $10 off ANY of my self-published books on Gumroad by using the following coupon code: black2022 This code works on my latest, unfinished book, The Python Quiz Book, as well. You can learn lots of […]
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This week we welcome Irit Katriel (@IritKatriel) as our PyDev of the Week! Irit is a CPython Core Dev who works at Microsoft. Irit helped write up PEP 654, which is about “Exception Groups and except*” and was released in Python 3.11 this year. This new feature makes it possible to raise and handle multiple
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This week we welcome Sarah Abderemane (@sabderemane_) as our PyDev of the Week! Sarah is a full-stack developer who is very active in the Django community. You can learn more about Sarah by checking out her website or visiting Sarah’s GitHub Profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know Sarah better! Can you tell us
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This week we welcome Kirk Byers (@kirkbyers) as our PyDev of the Week! Kirk teaches several different courses about Python and network automation. Kirk also has a short video on that topic over on O’Reilly Media. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know Kirk better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies,
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There are many common file types that you will need to work with as a software developer. One such format is the CSV file. CSV stands for “Comma-Separated Values” and is a text file format that uses a comma as a delimiter to separate values from one another. Each row is its own record and
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This week we welcome Vinay Sajip as our PyDev of the Week! Vinay is a core developer of the Python language. Vinay is also a core contributor for python-gnupg, a Python API for the GNU Privacy Guard as well as other great packages. If you need a Python or engineering consult, check out Vinay’s website.
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This week we welcome Marcin Kozak as our PyDev of the Week! Marcin maintains perftester and makepackage. You can see what else Marcin is working on over on GitHub. Let’s spend some time getting to know Marcin better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc.): I graduated in agriculture, from Warsaw
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This week we welcome Matthäus Chajdas (@NIV_Anteru) as our PyDev of the week! Matthäus is a core developer of Pygments, a generic syntax highlighter that is used in many websites, wikis, and more! Matthäus also works on Liara, a static site generator. You can find out what else Matthäus is doing by checking out his
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Quizzes are a fun way to test your knowledge of something. They make you think. The Python Quiz Book is all about brain teasers for the Python programming language. The Python Quiz Book isn’t made to teach you Python. It’s there to help you test your knowledge or teach you something new about the language.
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This week we welcome Sybren Stüvel (@sastuvel) as our PyDev of the Week! Sybren is a core maintainer of the Python-RSA package and also works on Blender. You can see what else Sybren is up to over on his website or by checking out his GitHub profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know Sybren!
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This week we welcome Mark Mikofski (@bwanamarko) as our PyDev of the Week! Mark is a core developer on the pvlib tool, which is used “for simulating the performance of photovoltaic energy systems.” You can check out his Github.io page to see Mark’s blog, talks, and more! Let’s spend some time getting to know Mark
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Introduction to Batch APIs In modern Python applications, it’s common to access remote API using REST or other web-based technologies. Batch APIs are capable of processing multiple requests with a single call. You can use batch APIs to reduce the number of network calls to the remote service. This is ideal when you have to
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I just launched my third course on Teach Me Python. This course is called Python 103 – Practical Python In this new course, you will learn about the following: Part I – Python Use Cases Lesson 1 – How to Create a Command Line Application with argparse Lesson 2 – How to Parse XML Lesson
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Teach Me Python is a brand new website about the Python Programming language. Teach Me Python is a subscription-based service that will teach you Python using courses, eBooks, tutorials, and videos. The tutorials and courses will include live code examples that you can run in your browser, when possible. Courses track your progress so you
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Learn all about how Python decorators work with Mike Driscoll What you’ll learn: How functions work Function Introspection Closures Creating a Decorator Stacking Decorators Decorators with Arguments Class decorators Decorating classes Practical Decorators Decorators in Python Standard Library
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