This week we welcome Raghav Bali (@Rghv_Bali) as our PyDev of the Week. Raghav is the co-author of Generative AI with Python and TensorFlow 2, a book that teaches you how to create images, text, and music with VAEs, GANs, LSTMs, GPT models and more. You can see what else Raghav has been up to […]
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This week we welcome Fernando Masanori (@fmasanori) as our PyDev of the Week! Fernando is a Professor at FATEC São José dos Campos in Brazil. He is the creator of the first Brazilian MOOC to teach programming Python for Zombies. You can see what else Fernando is up to on his website or by checking
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This week we welcome Jaime Buelta (@jaimebuelta) as our PyDev of the Week! Jaime has written several books on automation with Python as well as on Docker. You can see some of his books over on Amazon. You can also catch up with Jaime by visiting his website. Let’s spend a few moments getting to
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You have just created an awesome new application. Maybe it’s a game or maybe it’s an image viewer. Whatever your application is, you want to share it with your friend or a family member. However, you know they won’t know how to install Python or any of the dependencies. What do you do? You need
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This week we welcome Cooper Lees (@cooperlees) as our PyDev of the Week! Cooper has contributed to the Python programming language. He is also a maintainer on bandersnatch and black, among others. You can see what else Cooper has been up to over on his website or on GitHub. Let’s spend some time getting to
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This week we welcome Tim Arnold (@jtimarnold) as our PyDev of the Week! Tim co-authored Black Hat Python, 2nd Edition: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters. If you’re interested in hacking or pentesting, you might want to check out that book! You can see what else Tim is up to on his website / blog
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Pillow is a package devoted to working with images in Python. Starting in Pillow 8.2, there is a new drawing type: the rounded rectangle. A rounded rectangle lets you round the corners of the rectangle. So instead of sharp corners, you get rounded ones! You can read all about the new drawing type in the
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There are lots of fun Python snippets out there that you can use to convert your photos into ASCII art. Anthony Shaw, an author, and contributor at Real Python, has his own snippet on GitHub. Most of these small programs use the Pillow package. These programs work best with simple images, especially ones that don’t
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This week we welcome Parker Allen as our PyDev of the Week! Parker works at BentoBox a restaurant software company that uses Python on its backend. Let’s spend some time getting to know Parker! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I have a non-traditional route into becoming a software engineer.
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Learn how to edit and enhance photos using Pillow and the Python programming language. What you’ll learn in this video: Opening Images Extracting Image Information (EXIF) Cropping Rotating Image Enhancement Drawing Adding a GUI and more! Talk Notes / Jupyter Notebook Example Code from Pillow: Image Processing with Python book
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This week we welcome Haki Benita (@be_haki) as our PyDev of the Week! Haki is a contributor at Real Python. You can also see some of Haki’s work over on their own website or by checking out their GitHub profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know Haki better! Can you tell us a little
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This week we welcome Tristan Bunn as our PyDev of the Week! Tristan is the author of Learn Python Visually, a new Python book from No Starch Press. You can find out more about what Tristan is up to on his website or by visiting GitHub. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know Tristan
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This week we welcome Will McGugan (@willmcgugan) as our PyDev of the Week! Will is the author of the Rich package, which is for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. If you have a moment, you should check out Will’s blog. Will is also the author of Beginning Game Development with Python and
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Python came out with a special new keyword several years ago in Python 2.5 that is known as the with statement. This new keyword allows a developer to create context managers. But wait! What’s a context manager? They are handy constructs that allow you to set something up and tear something down automatically. For example,
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Pillow: Image Processing with Python is my latest book on the Python programming language. The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon. The paperback version of the book is in full color. That is why it more expensive than any of my other books to purchase. I put together a little video where
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