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An Intro to Image Processing with Wand / ImageMagick and Python

Image Editing, Python / Mike / July 6, 2021 / Pillow, Python

ImageMagick is an open-source tool that you can use to create, edit, compose, or convert digital images. It supports over 200 image formats. According to its website, ImageMagick can resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear, and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses, and Bézier curves. For […]

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PyDev of the Week: Adam Hopkins

PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / July 5, 2021 / Python

This week we welcome Adam Hopkins (@AdmHpkns) as our PyDev of the Week! Adam is a core developer on Sanic, a Python server / web framework. You can see what Adam has been up to over on GitHub. Let’s spend some time getting to know Adam better! Can you tell us a little about yourself

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Converting MP4 to Animated GIFs with Python

GUI Toolkits, Image Editing, Python / Mike / June 29, 2021 / Image Editing, PySimpleGUI, Python

Python can be used to read in the common MP4 video format and convert it to an animated GIF. Of course, you can use a pre-built piece of software if you’d rather, but it’s fun (and a good learning experience) to do it yourself. In this tutorial, you will learn the following: How to extract

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PyDev of the Week: Benjy Weinberger

1 Comment / PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / June 28, 2021 / Python

This week we welcome Benjy Weinberger (@benjy) as our PyDev of the Week! Benjy works on the Pants build system. He is also the co-founder of Toolchain. You can catch up with Benjy over on GitHub. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Benjy! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies,

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Mouse vs Python has a Slack Channel

Python / Mike / June 25, 2021 / Python

This website now has a Slack channel. It’s free to join. No subscription required! If you’d like to join, use the following link which is good for the next 30 days: https://join.slack.com/t/mousevspython/shared_invite/zt-s4r3rwt2-ookhEGzP1CQoxEbWIOECAA You can chat with the author of this site, Mike Driscoll, as well as other readers of the site. Mouse vs Python is

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Python 101: Exception Handling (Video)

Python, Video / Mike / June 25, 2021 / Python, Python 101

In this video tutorial, you will learn how exception handling works in Python. Specifically, you will learn the following: Common exceptions Handling exceptions Raising exceptions Examining exception objects Using the finally statement Using the else statement If you prefer to read a tutorial, you might be interested in this: Python 101 – Exception Handling Want

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Creating an Animated GIF with Python

Image Editing, Python / Mike / June 23, 2021 / Pillow, Python

Animated GIFs are an image type that contains multiple images with slight differences. These are then played back kind of like a cartoon is. You could even think of it as a flip-book with a stick man that is slightly different on each page. When you flip the book, the image appears to move. You

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PyDev of the Week: James Murphy

PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / June 21, 2021 / Python

This week we welcome James Murphy as our PyDev of the Week! James is the founder of mCoding and also has a popular Python tutorial channel on YouTube. You can also see what James is up to over on GitHub. Let’s spend some time getting to know James better! Can you tell us a little

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Creating a Warhol Triptych Image with Pillow and Python

Image Editing, Python / Mike / June 17, 2021 / Pillow, Python

Andy Warhol is a well-known artist who created a famous image where there are multiple copies of the same face but with different background colors. You can do a similar trick with software using Python and the Pillow package. You will also need to have NumPy installed to make this work. Let’s find out how

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PyDev of the Week: Raghav Bali

1 Comment / Books, PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / June 14, 2021 / Python

This week we welcome Raghav Bali (@Rghv_Bali) as our PyDev of the Week. Raghav is the co-author of Generative AI with Python and TensorFlow 2, a book that teaches you how to create images, text, and music with VAEs, GANs, LSTMs, GPT models and more. You can see what else Raghav has been up to

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PyDev of the Week: Fernando Masanori

1 Comment / PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / June 7, 2021 / Python

This week we welcome Fernando Masanori (@fmasanori) as our PyDev of the Week! Fernando is a Professor at FATEC São José dos Campos in Brazil. He is the creator of the first Brazilian MOOC to teach programming Python for Zombies. You can see what else Fernando is up to on his website or by checking

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PyDev of the Week: Jaime Buelta

PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / May 31, 2021 / Python

This week we welcome Jaime Buelta (@jaimebuelta) as our PyDev of the Week! Jaime has written several books on automation with Python as well as on Docker. You can see some of his books over on Amazon. You can also catch up with Jaime by visiting his website. Let’s spend a few moments getting to

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PyInstaller – How to Turn Your Python Code into an Exe on Windows

Packaging, Python / Mike / May 27, 2021 / Packaging, Python

You have just created an awesome new application. Maybe it’s a game or maybe it’s an image viewer. Whatever your application is, you want to share it with your friend or a family member. However, you know they won’t know how to install Python or any of the dependencies. What do you do? You need

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PyDev of the Week: Cooper Lees

1 Comment / PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / May 24, 2021 / Python

This week we welcome Cooper Lees (@cooperlees) as our PyDev of the Week! Cooper has contributed to the Python programming language. He is also a maintainer on bandersnatch and black, among others. You can see what else Cooper has been up to over on his website or on GitHub. Let’s spend some time getting to

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PyDev of the Week: Tim Arnold

1 Comment / PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / May 17, 2021 / Python

This week we welcome Tim Arnold (@jtimarnold) as our PyDev of the Week! Tim co-authored Black Hat Python, 2nd Edition: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters. If you’re interested in hacking or pentesting, you might want to check out that book! You can see what else Tim is up to on his website / blog

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