I will be launching a new Kickstarter on Monday, January 4th to help launch my 9th book, Pillow: Image Processing with Python. In this book, you will learn how to edit photos with Python. You will discover how to extract metadata, crop, apply filters, resize and so much more! Here is the high-level table of […]
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This week we welcome Amanda Sopkin (@amandasopkin) as our PyDev of the Week! She enjoys writing, teaching and the hackathon community. Amanda has given several talks at various Python conferences as well. You can check out what she has been up to over on her website. Let’s take a few moments to learn more about
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This week we welcome Martijn Faassen (@faassen) as our PyDev of the Week! Martijn is the creator of the popular lxml package and the Morepath web framework, among others. You can see what else he is up to over on Github or check out his blog. Let’s take a few moments to get to know
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Packt Publishing will be selling all of their eBooks and videos for $5 from December 15th, 2020 through January 13th, 2021. If you would like to get some new Python books for a bargain price, this is a good time to do so. My book, Python Interviews, is included in the sale. Here are some
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In this video tutorial, you will learn about creating different shades of gray with ReportLab’s canvas object: Get my ReportLab book on Leanpub or Amazon. Or check out my other Python books. Related Articles There are lots of other articles on ReportLab on this site. Here are just a few: ReportLab 101 – Using the
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This week we welcome Benoît Bovy (@benbovy) as our PyDev of the Week! Benoît is a contributor to Xarray-related libraries like Xpublish and Xoak. You can see what else he is working on over on Github. Let’s spend some time getting to know Benoît better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education,
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As the name implies, Day 4 is all about processing passports. You are given the following fields and you’ll have to do some verification steps using them: byr (Birth Year) iyr (Issue Year) eyr (Expiration Year) hgt (Height) hcl (Hair Color) ecl (Eye Color) pid (Passport ID) cid (Country ID) !!! SPOILERS AHEAD !!! You
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I came across an interesting Python Kickstarter recently called A Day in Code: Python – A picture book written in code. I personally don’t know the author or their work, but I really like the idea. I am also all about supporting independent content creators. You should go check out this Kickstarter and see if
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When I read the description for day 3 od the Advent of Code, I thought it was asking me to create some kind of pathfinding algorithm. The idea behind this challenge is to figure out how many trees you will hit while skiing down a grid. You should go check out the description so that
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This week we welcome Shauna Gordon-McKeon as our PyDev of the Week! Shauna runs her own consulting business, Galaxy Rise Consulting and is a Django enthusiast. She has also spoken at several Python conferences! If this interview isn’t enough for you, you can learn more about Shauna over on the Django Girls blog. Let’s spend
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Day 2 of Advent of Code 2020 is about validating passwords. It gives you a series of password policies and passwords and then asks you to determine how many of those passwords are valid. For this challenge, I opted to use no Python libraries and just do text parsing. !!! SPOILERS AHEAD !!! You should
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I decided to give the Advent of Code challenge a try this year. Advent of Code is a series of challenges that are given once a day. You can solve them in any programming language that you want. Once you have the solution, you enter it on the website to earn points. In this year’s
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This week we welcome Mridu Bhatnagar (@Mridu__) as our PyDev of the Week! Mridu enjoys giving tech talks. She recently started a Youtube channel and a blog on Python and other tech topics. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Mridu better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc):
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Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals came early this year. From now until December 1st, all my books are on sale on Leanpub using the special links below. Check them out and learn something new Python today! Python 101: 2nd Edition – 25% Off on Leanpub Python 201: Intermediate Python – 30% off on Leanpub
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Manning Publications recently contacted me to let me know that they had some new Python videos going up on their YouTube channel. Carl Osipov – author of Cloud Native Machine Learning. He created a session on automatic differentiation used by PyTorch autograd for deep learning: Jonathan Rioux – author of Data Analysis with Python and
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