Animated GIFs are a fun way to share silent videos on social media. This website has a tutorial to help you learn how to create your own animated GIFs with Python. But what if you wanted to view an animated GIF with Python? If you’re wondering if Python can present an animated GIF to the …
The Ruff linter is a Python linter written in Rust that is super fast. The people behind Ruff recently released a new tool that is a part of Ruff that allows Ruff to format your Python code using the Black rules. In this episode, I speak with Charlie Marsh, the original creator of Ruff and the founder of Astral, …
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner, so let’s start the holidays early with some amazing Python-related deals! You can take 33% off ANY of my self-published books on Gumroad by using the following coupon code: black23 I am also running a 33% off sale on all my Python courses over on Teach Me Python using the …
You may know Adam from all his work around the Django web framework. If you head to the Python Package Index (PyPI), you will see that Adam has made or contributed to more than 80 projects! Adam recently released a new book called Boost Your Git DX Listen in as we chat about: Book writing Django Python …
Textual is a Python framework for creating Text Based user interfaces (TUIs). You can create graphical user interfaces in your terminal with Textual. If you haven’t heard of Textual before, check out An Intro to Textual – Creating Text User Interfaces with Python In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and style a …
This week, we welcome Phil Ewels as our PyDev of the Week! Phil is the creator of the rich-click package. You can find Phil on Twitter, Mastodon, or BlueSky. You can also catch up with Phil over on GitHub. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know Phil better! Can you tell us a little …
Python has many remarkable web frameworks to choose from. Sanic is another excellent web framework and one of the first to support async programming. Sanic is built to be able to build fast and run fast. In this episode, we talk to Adam Hopkins, one of the maintainers of the Sanic web framework. We discuss the following …
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Deprecation warnings are handy ways for open-source maintainers to alert their users that some part of their package is no longer going to be supported. Good maintainers will provide migration guides that tell you what to do when you see a deprecation warning. You don’t want to ignore a deprecation warning because it alerts you …
Recently, I have been working on automating Jenkin’s config XML files using Python and the lxml package. I have several articles on using lxml and its handy objectify functionality: Python: Creating XML with lxml.objectify Parsing XML with Python using lxml.objectify But I’ve never really covered what to do when you need to create or parse …
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This week we welcome Gláucia Esppenchutz (@glauesppen) as our PyDev of the Week! Gláucia is the author of Data Ingestion with Python Cookbook. Let’s spend some time getting to know Gláucia better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): Hi, my name is Glaucia; 31 years old, Brazilian, and living in …
Python has several other Python files besides the traditional *.py file that it supports. In this tutorial, you will learn about the PYD file. A PYD file is a dynamic link library (DLL) written in Python that can be imported like a Python file. However, if you attempt to open a PYD file, you will …
This week, we welcome Laysa Uchoa (@laysauchoa) as our PyDev of the Week! Laysa is very active in the PyLadies group and gives many talks at various conferences. You can catch up with Laysa’s work by checking out GitHub profile. Let’s spend a few minutes getting to know Laysa better! Can you tell us a …
The Ruff project was released about a year ago and stormed the Python world. Ruff is written in Rust, but lints Python super fast. You can read all about it in An Intro to Ruff. This week, the Ruff formatted was released! You can still use Ruff to lint your Python code, but now you …
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This week we welcome Simon Cross (@hodgestar) as our PyDev of the Week! Simon lives in South Africa and helped start PyConZA. You can see all the various open-source tools that Simon works on over on GitHub. Let’s spend some time getting to know Simon better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, …
This week, we welcome Pradeep Kumar Srinivasan as our PyDev of the Week! Pradeep works on the Pyre package, which is a performant type-checker for Python as well as the Pysa security tool. You can sometimes find Pradeep at PyCon giving talks and interacting with the community. Let’s spend some time getting to know Pradeep …