I had a lot of ideas for the cover of Python 101. My first idea was to go to the zoo and take some photographs of Pythons there, then pick the right one stick that on the cover. I have a lot of photo editing software, so I also considered taking the photo and changing […]
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Python has a vast library of modules that are included with its distribution. The csv module gives the Python programmer the ability to parse CSV (Comma Separated Values) files. A CSV file is a human readable text file where each line has a number of fields, separated by commas or some other delimiter. You can
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Python has a number of different concurrency constructs such as threading, queues and multiprocessing. The threading module used to be the primary way of accomplishing concurrency. A few years ago, the multiprocessing module was added to the Python suite of standard libraries. This article will be focused on the threading module though.
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I’m sure some of you have been wondering if I had a more concrete outline of the book that I am currently writing. As a matter of fact, I do. Here’s what I have so far: Part One: Learning the Basics Chapter 1 – IDLE Chapter 2 – Strings Chapter 3 – Lists, Tuples and
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My readers have been asking me to write a book for a few years now and I’ve finally decided to bite the bullet and give it a go. For my first book, I decided to write something that’s for beginners and intermediate programmers. There will be four parts to the book with the first part
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Last year, Packt Publishing asked me to be a technical reviewer for a book called Python High Performance Programming by Gabriele Lanaro. It was published in December, 2013. For those of you with short attention spans, I give you my short review: Quick Review Why I picked it up: I got it for free, but
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I work with a lot of dictionaries at my job. Sometimes the dictionaries get really complicated with lots of nested data structures embedded within them. Recently I got a little tired of trying to remember all the keys in my dictionaries so I decided to change one of my dictionaries into a class so I
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The people at Packt Publishing recently sent me an ebook copy of Raúl Garreta and Guillermo Moncecchi’s book, Learning scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python to review. Machine learning isn’t a topic I’m very familiar with, but I gave the book a shot as it sounded interesting. I’ll start off with my quick review for those
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Python’s logging module has lots of options. In this article, we will looks at the logging module’s ability to create Rotating Logs. Python supports two types of rotating logs: Rotate logs based on size (RotatingFileHandler) Rotate the logs based on some time interval (TimedRotatingFileHandler) Let’s spend some time learning how each of these two types
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What’s the most popular language of 2013? According to CodeEval.com, it’s Python! If you compare that with TIOBE, Python is only at #8, but at least it’s still in the top ten! Hopefully Python will continue to gain in the ranks and be used in many new places in 2014. You might also find the
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