My Python Interviews book is now officially released! In it you will find 20 interviews with Python experts from a diverse set of fields. I also have a special code from Packt that will take 40% off the eBook for up to 1000 readers. Just apply the following code when you are checking out: PIMD40. […]
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One of my readers pointed out to me that Python 3.7 will now have ordered dictionaries by default. You can read the “announcement” over on the Python-Dev list. Python’s dict has always been unordered up until Python 3.6, when it was changed to be ordered based on a proposal by Raymond Hettinger, who is one
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This week we welcome David Litvak (@dlitvakb) as our PyDev of the Week! He has presented at PyCon Argentina and PyCaribbean. Feel free to check out his website or Github to see what he’s been up to. Now let’s take some time to learn more about David! Can you tell us a little about yourself
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There is only a little over 2 days left for my ReportLab book Kickstarter. This is your only chance to purchase a signed copy of the book and it’s also probably the cheapest way of getting the eBooks too! I currently have 7 chapters done with number 8 nearing completion. There are over 170 pages
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This week we welcome Juan Luis Cano (@astrojuanlu) as our PyDev of the Week! He is the chair of the Python Spain non-profit and the author of the poliastro project. If you can read Spanish, then you might want to check out his website. Otherwise you can definitely take a look at his Github profile
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I thought it would be fun to create a sample of the book so you can get an idea of what the book will be like. So I created a PDF that contains the first 3 chapters of the book for you. Download Sample Note that the format of this sample is not quite right
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I really like coming up with fun covers for my books. I also like to find new artists for each book so that they all end up looking unique. I do plan to re-use one or two artists at some point though. Anyway, for the ReportLab book I happened to stumble across Therese Larsson’s website and I really
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This week we welcome Emily Morehouse-Valcarcel (@emilyemorehouse) as our PyDev of the Week. Emily is the co-founder and Director of Engineering of Cuttlesoft. She recently spoke at PyCascades about Python’s AST. You can get a feel for what projects she is interested in over on her Github profile. Let’s take a few moments to get
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I am happy to announce another book that I have been working on called Python Interviews from Packt Publishing. Here is the blurb from their website: Python Interviews contains a series of one-to-one interviews between Mike Driscoll and a variety of leading figures in the Python community. Mike is a life-long member of the Python
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The ReportLab toolkit provides multiple ways for you to generate text on your PDFs. The most popular examples that I have seen are using canvas methods or using PLATYPUS. The canvas method that you will likely see the most is drawString. Here is an example: from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas c = canvas.Canvas(“hello.pdf”) c.drawString(100, 100, “Welcome
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This week we welcome Robert Cimrman as our PyDev of the Week! Robert is the project leader of Sfepy: Simple Finite Elements in Python package. He is also a contributor to NumPy and SciPy. You can see some the projects he works on over on Github. Let’s take a few moments to get to know
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After collating the various ideas that people have been giving me during the Kickstarter campaign, I have decided to firm up my table of contents. I had already planned to cover 80-90% or more of what was in ReportLab’s user guide, but in more depth, as I thought most of those topics should be covered
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This week we welcome Joseph Howse (@CatsAndMonkeys) as our PyDev of the Week. Joseph is the author (or co-author) of several books on OpenCV: OpenCV for Secret Agents OpenCV 3 Blueprints iOS Application Development with OpenCV 3 Android Application Programming with OpenCV 3 Learning OpenCV 3 Computer Vision with Python Python Game Programming by Example
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Have you ever wondered how to create PDF Reports programmatically? If so, then this is the book for you! In ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python, you will learn how to generate PDFs using the popular Python programming language. The code in this book will run on all 3 major platforms: Windows Mac Linux ReportLab is used
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Every now and then, someone will ask about how they can run the demo code from wxPython’s demo outside of the demo. In other words, they wonder how you can extract the code from the demo and run it in your own. I think I wrote about this very topic quite some time ago on
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