This week we welcome Thea Flowers (@theavalkyrie) as our PyDev of the Week! Thea is a maintainer of packaging.python.org and the urllib3 package. Thea also is very active in the Python community and is a new board member of the Python Software Foundation. You can find out more about Thea on her website, Github. Let’s […]
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In this screencast, we will be learning about Python’s builtin sqlite module. This episode is based on chapter 18 of Python 101, which you can read here: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/
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I am about halfway through the Kickstarter campaign for my new book, Jupyter Notebook 101 and thought it would be fun to share my current tentative table of contents: Intro Chapter 1: Creating Notebooks Chapter 2: Rich Text (Markdown, images, etc) Chapter 3: Configuring Your Notebooks Chapter 4: Distributing Notebooks Chapter 5: Notebook Extensions Chapter
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This week we welcome William Punch as our PyDev of the Week. Mr. Punch is the co-author of the book, The Practice of Computing using Python and he is an assistant professor of computer science at Michigan State University. Let’s take a few moments to get to know him better! Can you tell us a
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I am currently working on a new book called Jupyter Notebook 101 that I am planning to release in November 2018. I have put together a PDF that shows a rough draft of the first couple of chapters of the book along with an appendix. You can check out the PDF here: jupyternotebook101-preview If you
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Learn how to use Python’s email and smtp modules in this video. You can also read the written version of this video here: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or get the book here: https://leanpub.com/python_101
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When you are first starting out learning how to program, one of the first things you will want to learn is what an error message means. In Python, error messages are usually called tracebacks. Here are some common traceback errors: SyntaxError ImportError or ModuleNotFoundError AttributeError NameError When you get an error, it is usually recommended
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This week we welcome Christopher Neugebauer (@chrisjrn) as our PyDev of the Week! Christopher helped organize North Bay Python and PyCon Australia. He is also a fellow of the Python Software Foundation. You can catch up with him on Github or on his website. If you are interested in being a part of the North
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In this episode you will learn about Python’s os module. This episode is based on my book, Python 101, which you can get on Leanpub here https://leanpub.com/python_101 or read online at http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/
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I am happy to announce my latest Kickstarter which is to raise funds to create a book on Jupyter Notebook! Jupyter Notebook 101Â will teach you all you need to know to create and use Notebooks effectively. You can use Jupyter Notebook to help you learn to code, create presentations, make beautiful documentation and much more!
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This week we welcome Katharine Jarmul (@kjam) as our PyDev of the Week! Katherine is the co-author of Data Wrangling with Python . She is also the co-founder of KIProtect. You can catch up with the projects she works on over on Github. Let’s take some time to get to know her better! Can you
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Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, and the Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL) has retired as the BDFL with no successor named as of July 12, 2018. See the following email from the Python Committers list for full details. Basically there was a lot of negativity over PEP 572 – Assignment Expressions that appears
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In this screencast, you will learn the basics of using Python’s logging module. Check out the book this video is based on for free online: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/
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I was recently interviewed by Tobias Macey (@TobiasMacey) on Podcast.__init__ (@Podcast__init__) about some of the things I have done in my career as a Python programmer. You can listen in here: And if you missed it earlier this year, I was also on the Talk Python to Me podcast talking about the history of Python,
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This week we welcome Ryan Kirkbride (@ryankirkbride26) as our PyDev of the Week! Ryan is the creator of Foxdot, a live coding library for live coding music in an interactive Python editor. You can see what projects Ryan is a part of by going to his Github page. Let’s take a few moments to get
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