In this screencast, you will learn the basics of using the popular lxml (https://lxml.de/) package for parsing XML. 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 Anthony Sottile (@codewithanthony) as our PyDev of the Week! Anthony is one of the maintainers for the tox and pytest packages. He is also on the “deadsnakes” PPA team, which backports Python for certain EOL Linux distros. While you can discover a little about Anthony on his website, you will probably
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In this episode you will learn how to use the configobj package. This is a 3rd party package that I think is better and easier to use than Python’s built-in configparser module. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub Related Reading A Brief ConfigObj
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What are Jupyter widgets? A widget is an “eventful python object” that in the case of Jupyter Notebook, resides in the browser and is a user interface element, such as a slider or textbox. Jupyter supports a fairly wide array of widgets including the following: Numeric Boolean Selection String Image Button Output Animation Date picker
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The Jupyter Notebook has a feature known as widgets. If you have ever created a desktop user interface, you may already know and understand the concept of widgets. They are basically the controls that make up the user interface. In your Jupyter Notebook you can create sliders, buttons, text boxes and much more. We will
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This week we welcome Philip Guo (@pgbovine) as our PyDev of the Week! Philip is the creator of the popular Python Tutor website and a professor at UC San Diego in the cognitive science and computer science department. Let’s take some time to get to know Philip! Can you tell us a little about yourself
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I see questions relating to the title of this article a lot. How do I open a second frame / window? How do I get all the frames to close when I close the main application? When you are first learning wxPython, these kinds of questions can be kind of hard to find answers for
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In this screencast we will learn how to install 3rd party modules and packages using easy_install, pip and from source. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
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Debugging is an important concept. The concept of debugging is trying to figure out what is wrong with your code or just trying to understand the code. There are many times where I will come to unfamiliar code and I will need to step through it in a debugger to grasp how it works. Most
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The more you do programming, the more you will here about how you should test your code. You will hear about things like Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development (TDD). These are great ways to create quality code. But how does testing fit in with Jupyter? Frankly, it really doesn’t. If you want to test
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This week we welcome Marc Garcia (@datapythonista) as our PyDev of the Week! Marc is a core developer of pandas, a Python data analysis library. If you’d like to know more about Marc, you can check out his website which has links to his talks that he has given at PyData in Europe as well
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In this episode, you will learn the basics of using Python’s doctest and unittest modules. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub Related Articles Python 3 Testing: An Intro to unittest Python 102: An Intro to TDD and unittest
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According to The Economist, Python is “becoming the world’s most popular coding language”. Here’s a chart that shows how popular the language is: There’s a lot of interesting information in that article and there’s some interesting conversation going on in this Reddit thread which is related to the article.
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When working with Jupyter Notebook, you will find yourself needing to distribute your Notebook as something other than a Notebook file. The most likely reason is that you want to share the content of your Notebook to non-technical users that don’t want to install Python or the other dependencies necessary to use your Notebook. The
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This week we welcome K Lars Lohn (@2braids) as our PyDev of the Week! He has been a part of the Python community for quite a few years. You can learn a bit more about him over on his blog or by checking out his Github account. Let’s spend some time getting to know him
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