These tutorials are for developers who already understand the basics of Python and they would like to expand their knowledge
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 […]
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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
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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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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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Textual is a text-based user interface library (TUI) for the Python programming language. With Textual, you can create beautiful cross-platform TUI applications. If you would like more information, see An Intro to Textual – Creating Text User Interfaces with Python In this article, you will learn how to created a tabbed interface in your terminal
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Textual is a Python package used to create cross-platform Text User Interfaces (TUI). This may sound like you’ll be creating a user interface with ASCII-art, but that is not the case. Textual is quite advanced and allows you to add widgets to your terminal applications, including buttons, context switchers, scroll bars, checkboxes, inputs and more.
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The Python Quiz Book is Mike Driscoll’s latest book on the Python programming language. There are over one hundred quizzes and answers in the book to help you test your Python knowledge. From the Publisher Test your Python programming language the fun way… Rather than making annoying mistakes in your code! The Python Quiz Book
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Introduction to Batch APIs In modern Python applications, it’s common to access remote API using REST or other web-based technologies. Batch APIs are capable of processing multiple requests with a single call. You can use batch APIs to reduce the number of network calls to the remote service. This is ideal when you have to
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I just launched my third course on Teach Me Python. This course is called Python 103 – Practical Python In this new course, you will learn about the following: Part I – Python Use Cases Lesson 1 – How to Create a Command Line Application with argparse Lesson 2 – How to Parse XML Lesson
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Learn all about how Python decorators work with Mike Driscoll What you’ll learn: How functions work Function Introspection Closures Creating a Decorator Stacking Decorators Decorators with Arguments Class decorators Decorating classes Practical Decorators Decorators in Python Standard Library
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a Tic-Tac-Toe game using PySimpleGUI and Python. Download the Code PyTips Code Repo on GitHub
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Learn all about type hinting (AKA type annotation) in this tutorial by Mike Driscoll What You’ll Learn Pros and Cons of Type Hinting Built-in Type Hinting / Variable Annotation Collection Type Hinting Hinting Values That Could be None Type Hinting Functions What To Do When Things Get Complicated Classes Decorators Aliasing Other Type Hints This
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Learn how to create different types of context managers using Python’s contextlib module! You can learn more in the contextlib documentation. Related Articles Python’s with Statement and Context Managers Python 3.10 – Parenthesized Context Managers wxPython’s Context Managers Python 201 – An Intro to Context Managers
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Context managers are a handy way to open and close files, dialogs, thread-locks and so much more! Check out this short tutorial that introduces you to the concepts of context managers by Mike Driscoll Related Articles Python’s with Statement and Context Managers Python 3.10 – Parenthesized Context Managers wxPython’s Context Managers Python 201 – An
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to do function overloading with Python and its functools module. Related Reading Python 3 – Function Overloading with singledispatch
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