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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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
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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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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
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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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