The Kickstarter campaign for my latest book has been going quite well, so I thought it would be fun to share some sample chapters of the book with you. You can check out the first couple of chapters here as a PDF. I have also been doing some experiments with regards to some of the […]
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This week we welcome Nina Zakharenko (@nnja) as our PyDev of the Week! Nina has been active in the Python community for several years and has spoken or keynoted dozens of conferences. She has also contributed to the Python core language! If you’d like to see what she is up to, check out her blog.
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In this screencast, we will learn how to turn your Python code into a Windows executable file using the cx_Freeze project. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
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I am pleased to announce my latest book project, Creating GUI Applications with wxPython which I am running a Kickstarter campaign for. Creating GUI Applications with wxPython is a book that will teach you how to use wxPython to create applications by actually creating several mini-programs. I have found that while learning how the various
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This week we welcome Lance Bragstad (@LanceBragstad) as our PyDev of the Week! Lance is a core developer of the OpenStack project. You can find out more about his passions via his website or his Github profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know Lance! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education,
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In this screencast, we will learn how to turn your Python code into a Windows executable file using the bbfreeze project. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub Related Reading A bbfreeze Tutorial – Build a Binary Series!
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This week we welcome Kushal Das (@kushaldas) as our PyDev of the Week! Kushal is a core developer of the Python programming language and a co-author of PEP 582. You can learn more about Kushal by checking out his blog or his Github profile. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Kushal better!
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The wxPython GUI toolkit has a very rich and powerful Grid widget that I have written about previously on this blog. It allows you to create sheets of cells similar to those in Microsoft Excel. There is also a neat mixin that allows you to apply a custom renderer to the labels on the columns
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In this screencast, we will learn how to turn your Python code into a Windows executable file using py2exe. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
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Packt Publishing is partnering with Humble Bundle for a Python bundle for 2019. You can check out the full list of titles here: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/python-packt-2019-books One of the books is my very own Python Interviews book There are quite a few other books in this bundle that look interesting. I know the books by Steven Lott
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This week we welcome Mike Grouchy (@mgrouchy) as our PyDev of the Week. Mike co-founded PyCoder’s Weekly along with Mahdi Yusuf (@myusuf3). He is also the creator of Django Stronghold, a fun Django package you should check out. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Mike better! Can you tell us a little
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This week we welcome William Vincent (@wsv3000) as our PyDev of the Week! William is the author of 3 books on the Django web framework, including Django for Beginners. You can find out more about what William is up to on his website where he writes about Python, Django and more. Let’s take a few
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In this screencast you will learn about Python wheels and how to make your own. A Python wheel is a packaging format that allows installing a package without the need for compiling or building. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
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This week we welcome Irina Truong (@irinatruong) as our PyDev of the Week! Irina has been a speaker at several Python conferences and is a maintainer for pgcli, a Python package that is a command-line interface to the Postgres database. You can see what else she has been up to over on Github. Let’s spend
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In this screencast, we learn about the Python egg, which was one of Python’s old formats for distributing code. In modern Python, we now use a wheel. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub Previous Episodes Python 101: Episode #35 – The virtualenv Package
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