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Automating Excel with Python will be Michael Driscoll’s 10th Python book! This book’s primary goal is to help you automate the creation, editing, and reading of Excel spreadsheets using the Python programming language. You can purchase early access to the book on Kickstarter as well as get exclusive perks there such as T-shirts, signed copies
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This week we welcome Jeremiah Paige (@ucodery) as our PyDev of the Week! Jeremiah currently works for Activestate. He is also a speaker at EuroPython 2021. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Jeremiah better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I went to university to study hardware
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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