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,
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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
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Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): Hello, I’m Sarah! I am a British software developer based in Germany. I have enjoyed drawing portraits since I was little and nearly decided to study Art, but with some encouragement from my Dad, in the end I chose to study Mathematics. I still
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This week we welcome Claudia Ng as the PyDev of the Week! Claudia is an author / contributor at Real Python! If you’d like to see what else Claudia has been up to, you should check out her personal website. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know Claudia better! Can you tell us a
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There are many different tools that you can install to help you be a better Python programmer. For example, you might install pytest so that you can do unit tests of your code. Or you might install Ruff, a super fast Python linter. The focus of this article is on another tool called Radon that
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This week, we welcome Timothée Mazzucotelli (@pawamoy) as our PyDev of the Week! Timothée is the author of mkdocstrings. You can see what else Timothée has been up to by visiting Timothée’s showcase. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know Timothée better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): My
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This week, we welcome Jelle Zijlstra as our PyDev of the Week! Jelle is a core developer of the Python programming language. If you’d like to see what exactly Jelle is working on, you should check out his GitHub profile, Quora, or the Python Packaging Index. Let’s take a few moments to get to know
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Validating data is one of the many tasks engineers face around the world. Your users make typos as often as anyone else, so you must try to catch those errors. One common type of information that an engineer will need to capture is someone who wants to edit or enter an IP address for a
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This week we welcome Franek Magiera as our PyDev of the Week! Franek is a core developer of the Python programming language. If you’d like to see what else Franek has been working on, you can check out Franek’s GitHub profile. Now let’s spend a few moments getting to know Franeky better! Can you tell
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Textual is an amazing Python package for creating Text-Based User Interfaces (TUIs) in Python. You can learn more in An Intro to Textual – Creating Text User Interfaces with Python. However, Textual isn’t only about creating user interfaces for your terminal. The Textual team is also making Textual for the web! Textual Cloud Service will
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Protocol buffers are a data serialization format that is language agnostic. They are analogous to Python’s own pickle format, but one of the advantages of protocol buffers is that they can be used by multiple programming languages. For example, Protocol buffers are supported in C++, C#, Dart, Go, Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, PHP, Ruby, and more
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Microsoft announced that Python is now a part of Excel! Guido van Rossum mentioned on Twitter that he helped the Excel team add Python to the popular spreadsheet application. You can get Python in Excel if you have the ability to access Public Preview versions of Office. This new feature allows you to write Python
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Working with file and folder paths in Python can take time and effort. Fortunately, the Python programming language has a couple of great packages to help you! This tutorial will teach you how to expand an initial path component, such as a tilde (~). You will also learn how to expand/replace environment variables such as
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Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) may finally be coming to an end. The Python Steering Council recently announced that they are accepting PEP 703. This PEP proposes adding a build configuration (–disable-gil) to CPython, which will turn off the GIL. The Python Global Interpreter Lock or GIL, is a mutex or lock that only ever allows
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