This week we welcome Jim Crist-Harif (@jcristharif) as our PyDev of the Week! Jim is a contributor to Dask, Skein and several other data science / machine learning Python packages. Jim also blogs about Python. You can see what he is currently working on over on Github. Let’s spend some time getting to know Jim! […]
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In this video, you will get an introduction to ReportLab’s Canvas object. You use ReportLab to create PDFs using Python and this tutorial will show you one way to accomplish that Want to learn more about working with PDFs in Python? Then check out my book: ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python Purchase now on Leanpub
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Most CPU manufacturers are creating multi-core CPUs now. Even cell phones come with multiple cores! Python threads can’t use those cores because of the Global Interpreter Lock. Starting in Python 2.6, the multiprocessing module was added which lets you take full advantage of all the cores on your machine. In this article, you will learn
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Learn the basics of using JupyterLab which is the replacement for Jupyter Notebook, in my latest video tutorial. Buy the book: https://leanpub.com/jupyternotebook101/
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This week we welcome Dr. David Pena as our PyDev of the Week! David is the author of StremeCoder, a Graphical Python Programming Editor. You can learn more about what David has been up to through his Github profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know David better! Can you tell us a little about
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to add a wx.Notebook to your GUI application using wxPython. The notebook widget is how you would add a tabbed interface to your application. Related articles wxPython: A Simple Notebook Example The “Book” Controls of wxPython (Part 1 of 2)
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In this video tutorial, you will learn about the following: Create dictionaries Access dictionaries Dictionary methods Modifying dictionaries Deleting from your dictionary If you prefer to read your tutorials, then you can check out this one: Python 101 – Learning About Dictionaries
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Mistakes in your code are known as “bugs”. You will make mistakes. You will make many mistakes, and that’s totally fine. Most of the time, they will be simple mistakes such as typos. But since computers are very literal, even typos prevent your code from working as intended. So they need to be fixed. The
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This week we welcome Philip James (@phildini) as our PyDev of the Week! Philip is a core contributor for Beeware project. He has worked on several other open source projects that you’ll learn about in this interview. He is also a popular speaker at PyCons and DjangoCons. You can find out more about Philip on
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Learn how to use Jupyter Notebook’s built-in widgets in this video tutorial. Get the book: https://leanpub.com/jupyternotebook101/
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In this tutorial, you will learn about Python’s tuple data type: If you prefer to read rather than watch, then you should check out Python 101 – Learning About Tuples Get the Jupyter Notebook on Github
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There are times when you are writing an application and you need to run another application. For example, you may need to open Microsoft Notepad on Windows for some reason. Or if you are on Linux, you might want to run grep. Python has support for launching external applications via the subprocess module. The subprocess
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This week we welcome Florian Dahlitz (@DahlitzF) as our PyDev of the Week! Florian is a contributor to the CPython programming language and the PyTest framework. He is also a contributor to Real Python. You can check out Florian’s personal blog or get his newsletter to keep up-to-date with him. Let’s spend some time getting
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In this video, you will learn the basics of using the Jupyter Notebook. How to change cells, edit cells, run cells, and much more!
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to improve the image viewer application that you created in the previous video tutorial to make it load up a folder of images. Then you will add some buttons so that the user can go forwards and backwards through the images or play a slideshow of the images.
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