This week we welcome Martha Teye (@teye_martha) as our PyDev of the Week! Martha talks about her first big Python project in this YouTube video where she creates a chat bot. You can connect with Martha on LinkedIn. Let’s spend some time getting to know Martha better! Can you tell us a little about yourself […]
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I am joining some of my fellow indie content creators to create a FREE Python book bundle for the month of October 2021! The Indie Python Extravaganza! A collection of books that will help you to improve your knowledge of the Python programming language one page at a time. Join four indie authors in a
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Software developers have to work with data. More often than not, the data that you work with will need to be available to multiple developers as well as multiple users at once. The typical solution for this type of situation is to use a database. Databases hold data in a tabular format, which means that
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When you first get started as a programmer or software developer, you usually start by writing code that prints to your console or standard out. A lot of students are also starting out by writing front-end programs, which are typically websites written with HTML, JavaScript and CSS. However, most beginners do not learn how to
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a very popular way to share documents across multiple platforms. The goal of the PDF is to create a document that will look the same on multiple platforms and that will print the same (or very similar) on various printers. The format was originally developed by Adobe but has
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This week we welcome Tony Roberts as our PyDev of the Week! Tony is the creator and maintainer of PyXLL, a paid add-in for Microsoft Excel that lets you script Excel using the Python programming language. You can see what else Tony is working on over on GitHub. Tony writes on Medium and the Towards
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The Python programming language comes with its own built-in Integrated Development Environment (IDE) called IDLE. The name, IDLE, supposedly came from the actor, Eric Idle, who was a part of the Monty Python troupe, which is what Python itself is named after. IDLE comes with Python on Windows and some Linux variants. You may need
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There are many common file types that you will need to work with as a software developer. One such format is the CSV file. CSV stands for “Comma-Separated Values” and is a text file format that uses a comma as a delimiter to separate values from one another. Each row is its own record and
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Assignment expressions were added to Python in version 3.8. The general idea is that an assignment expression allows you to assign to variables within an expression. The syntax for doing this is: NAME := expr This operator has been called the “walrus operator”, although their real name is “assignment expression”. Interestingly, the CPython internals also
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When you create a Python file, you are creating a Python module. Any Python file that you create can be imported by another Python script. Thus, by definition, it is also a Python module. If you have two or more related Python files, then you may have a Python package. Some organizations keep all their
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I don’t know about you, but I enjoy listening to music. As an avid music fan, I also like to rip my CDs to MP3 so I can listen to my music on the go a bit easier. There is still a lot of music that is unavailable to buy digitally. Unfortunately, when you rip
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Python provides a couple of really nice modules that you can use to craft emails with. They are the email and smtplib modules. Instead of going over various methods in these two modules, you’ll spend some time learning how to actually use these modules. Specifically, you’ll be covering the following: The basics of emailing How
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This week we welcome Tonya Sims (@TonyaSims) as our PyDev of the Week! Tonya is a Python Developer Advocate for Vonage and is an active member of the Real Python community. Tonya recently gave a talk called “Faceoff Fun with Python Frameworks: FastAPI vs Flask” at EuroPython 2021. Let’s spend some time getting to know
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The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain code, equations, visualizations, and formatted text. By default, Jupyter Notebook runs Python out of the box. Additionally, Jupyter Notebook supports many other programming languages via extensions. You can use the Jupyter Notebook for data cleaning and transformation,
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As a developer, there are times where you may end up with two or more dictionaries that you need to combine into one master dictionary. There are lots of different ways to merge dictionaries in the Python programming language. In this tutorial, you will look at a few of the old ways to merge dictionaries
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