I am making Python 101: 2nd Edition free during PyCon 2021. This sale will end, Monday, May 17th, 2021. You can get the book free using the following links: Leanpub – https://leanpub.com/py101/c/pycon Gumroad – https://gumroad.com/l/pypy101/pycon Or pay what you want starting at $5 using this link: https://gumroad.com/l/pypy101 If you like the eBook and you’d like […]
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Pillow is a package devoted to working with images in Python. Starting in Pillow 8.2, there is a new drawing type: the rounded rectangle. A rounded rectangle lets you round the corners of the rectangle. So instead of sharp corners, you get rounded ones! You can read all about the new drawing type in the
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There are lots of fun Python snippets out there that you can use to convert your photos into ASCII art. Anthony Shaw, an author, and contributor at Real Python, has his own snippet on GitHub. Most of these small programs use the Pillow package. These programs work best with simple images, especially ones that don’t
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This week we welcome Parker Allen as our PyDev of the Week! Parker works at BentoBox a restaurant software company that uses Python on its backend. Let’s spend some time getting to know Parker! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I have a non-traditional route into becoming a software engineer.
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Learn how to edit and enhance photos using Pillow and the Python programming language. What you’ll learn in this video: Opening Images Extracting Image Information (EXIF) Cropping Rotating Image Enhancement Drawing Adding a GUI and more! Talk Notes / Jupyter Notebook Example Code from Pillow: Image Processing with Python book
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This week we welcome Adam Johnson (@adamchainz) as our PyDev of the Week! Adam is a member of the Django project Technical Board. He also co-organizes the London Django Meetup. Adam is the author of Speed Up Your Django Tests. You can see what else is going on with Adam over on his website. Let’s
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This week we welcome Haki Benita (@be_haki) as our PyDev of the Week! Haki is a contributor at Real Python. You can also see some of Haki’s work over on their own website or by checking out their GitHub profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know Haki better! Can you tell us a little
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This week we welcome Tristan Bunn as our PyDev of the Week! Tristan is the author of Learn Python Visually, a new Python book from No Starch Press. You can find out more about what Tristan is up to on his website or by visiting GitHub. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know Tristan
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This week we welcome Will McGugan (@willmcgugan) as our PyDev of the Week! Will is the author of the Rich package, which is for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. If you have a moment, you should check out Will’s blog. Will is also the author of Beginning Game Development with Python and
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For the next 24 hours, Python 101 will be Pay What You Want, $3 minimum (usually $25). The second edition of Python 101 is completely rewritten from the ground up. In this book, you will learn the Python programming language and lots more. This book is split up into four sections: The Python Language Intermediate Topics Creating
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Python came out with a special new keyword several years ago in Python 2.5 that is known as the with statement. This new keyword allows a developer to create context managers. But wait! What’s a context manager? They are handy constructs that allow you to set something up and tear something down automatically. For example,
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Pillow: Image Processing with Python is my latest book on the Python programming language. The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon. The paperback version of the book is in full color. That is why it more expensive than any of my other books to purchase. I put together a little video where
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This week we welcome Ngazetungue Muheue (@muheuenga) as our PyDev of the Week! Ngazetungue helps organize PyCon Namibia and is the co-founder of Python Namibia. He is an active speaker and a member of the Python Software Foundation. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better! Can you tell us a little about yourself
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This week we welcome Yuxi (Hayden) Liu as our PyDev of the Week! Hayden is the author of Python Machine Learning By Example and other books. You can connect with Hayden on LinkedIn. Now let’s spend some time getting to know Hayden better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I
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I recently did a talk on Python’s neat functools module. This screencast covers the majority of the module: Caching cache lru_cache total_ordering partial reduce singledispatch wraps Related Reading Mouse Vs Python – Partial Functions Real Python: Python’s reduce(): From Functional to Pythonic Style Mouse Vs Python – Function Overloading with singledispatch Mouse Vs Python
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