This week we welcome Adrin Jalali (@adrinjalali) as our PyDev of the Week! Adrin works on the popular scikit-learn package as well as Fairlearn, an AI package for Python. You can see what else Adrin is up to via his website or by checking out his Github profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know […]
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In this video tutorial, you will learn how to use Python’s urllib to download files from the internet: If you prefer reading versus watching, then you can check out this related tutorial: Python 101: How to Download a File Would you like to learn more about Python? Python 101 – 2nd Edition Purchase now on
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Creating software is hard work. To make your software better, your application needs to keep working even when the unexpected happens. For example, let’s say your application needs to pull information down from the Internet. What happens if the person using your application loses their Internet connectivity? Another common issue is what to do if
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Learn how to use Strings in Python in this screencast. This video is based on a chapter from my book, Python 101 2nd Edition. You can read the written version here: Python 101: Working with Strings
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This week we welcome Kyle Stanley (@aeros_py) as our PyDev of the Week! Kyle is a core developer of the Python programming language. If you’d like to see what Kyle is working on, you can check out his Github profile. You can also connect with Kyle on LinkedIn. Let’s spend some time getting to know
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This week we welcome Dong-hee Na (@dongheena92) as our PyDev of the Week! Dong-hee is a core developer of the Python programming language. You can see some of what he has been working on over on Github. Let’s take some time to get to know him better! Can you tell us a little about yourself
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This week we welcome Seth Michael Larson (@sethmlarson) as our PyDev of the Week! Seth is the lead maintainer of urllib3. He also writes a Python blog. You can see some of Seth’s other contributions over on Github. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Seth better! Can you tell us a little
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There are many times when you are writing code that you will need to find a way to iterate over something. Perhaps you’ll need to iterate over the letters in a string or the objects in a list. The process of iterating over something is done via a loop. A loop is a programming construct
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This week we welcome Cristi Vlad (@CristiVlad25) as our PyDev of the Week! Cristi teaches cybersecurity with Python on his Youtube Channel. He has also authored some books and writes on his blog. You can see his books there too. Let’s take some time to get to know Cristi better! Can you tell us a
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Learn how to create a basic cross-platform image viewer using wxPython and Python This video is based on one of the examples from my book, Creating GUI Applications with wxPython, which you can purchase at the following: Amazon Leanpub The code for this example can be found in chapter 2 of the book as well
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This week we welcome Qiusheng Wu (@giswqs) as our PyDev of the Week! Qiusheng has developed several Python packages that you can check out on Github. Specifically they are geemap, lidar, whitebox and they are used for advanced geospatial analysis. Qiusheng also has a website where you can learn more about his research and interests.
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Learn how to use Python’s logging module in this screencast: You will learn about the following: Creating a log Logging Levels Logging Handlers Logging Formatters Logging to Multiple Locations and more!
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This week we welcome Jan Giacomelli (@jangiacomelli) as our PyDev of the Week. Jan is an entrepreneur and blogs about Python. You can see what projects Jan contributes to over on Github. Let’s spend a few minutes and get to know Jan better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I’ve
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This week we welcome Samuel Hinton (@samreayh) as our PyDev of the Week! Samuel has written quite a few projects in Python and given lots of talks on astronomy. If you are interested in either of those topics, then you should definitely check out his website or his Github profile. Let’s take a few moments
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Developers have to make decisions all the time. How do you approach this problem? Do you use technology X or technology Y? Which programming language(s) can you use to solve this? Your code also sometimes needs to make a decision. Here are some common things that code checks every day: Are you authorized to do
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