I was contacted earlier this year by Apress about republishing my book, wxPython Cookbook, under their branding. I thought it might be fun to see what I could learn from a publisher so I went with them as I have enjoyed several of their books in the past. The biggest change to the book is […]
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This week we welcome Damián Avila as our PyDev of the Week! Damián works for Anaconda, an open source distribution of Python and R with a heavy focus on data science. He is also the author of RISE, a Jupyter/IPython Slideshow Extension. You can get a feel for what Damián is up to over on
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Last time we got our Flask based music database application partially functional. It could now add data to the database, edit said data and also display everything in the database. But we didn’t cover how to filter the data by using the user’s filter choice (Artist, Album name or publisher name) and search string. We
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Last time we learned how to add a search form to our music database application. Of course, we still haven’t added any data to our database, so the search form doesn’t actually do much of anything except tell us that it didn’t find anything. In this tutorial we will learn how to actually add data,
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In our last article, we added a database to our Flask web application, but didn’t have a way to add anything to our database. We also didn’t have a way to view anything, so basically we ended up having a pretty useless web application. This article will take the time to teach you how to
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Last time we learned how to get Flask set up. In this article we will learn how to add a database to our music data website. As you might recall, Flask is a micro-web-framework. That means it doesn’t come with an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) like Django does. If you want to add database interactivity,
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The Flask 101 series is my attempt at learning the Flask microframework for Python. For those who haven’t heard of it, Flask is micro web framework for creating web applications in Python. According to their website, Flask is based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions. For this series of articles, I wanted to create
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This week we welcome Anthony Tuininga as our PyDev of the Week! Anthony is the creator of the cx_Freeze library among several others in the cx Suite. You can get a feel for what he’s currently working on over on Github. Let’s take some time to get to know Anthony better! Can you tell us
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This week we welcome Charles R. Harris as our PyDev of the Week. Charles is a core developer of NumPy, one of Python’s most popular scientific computing libraries. He has been working on NumPy since it was still called Numeric. He is also a core developer of SciPy. Let’s take some time to get to
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This week we welcome Ruud van der Ham as our PyDev of the Week! Ruud is the creator of the Salabim project. Let’s take some time getting to know him a bit better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I have always worked in the port industry as a professional
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This week we welcome Adrian Rosebrock (@PyImageSearch) as our PyDev of the Week. Adrian is the author of several books on Python and OpenCV. He is also the author of PyImageSearch.com, a very popular Python blog that focuses on computer vision. Let’s take some time to get to know him a bit better! Can you
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I was recently asked about how to implement drag-and-drop of items in a wx.ListCtrl or in ObjectListView. Unfortunately neither control has this built-in although I did find an article on the wxPython wiki that demonstrated one way to do drag-and-drop of the items in a ListCtrl. However I did think that implementing some buttons to
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A couple of months ago, Brian Okken asked me if I would be interested in reading his book, Python Testing with pytest. I have been interested in learning more about the pytest package for a while, so I agreed to take a look. I also liked that the publisher was The Pragmatic Programmers, which I’ve
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This week we welcome Bert JW Regeer as our PyDev of the Week! Bert is a core developer of the Pyramid web framework. You can check our his experience over on his website or go check out his Github profile to see what projects he’s been working on lately. Let’s take a few moments to
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This week we welcome Bruce Eckel as our PyDev of the Week! Bruce is the author of several books including Thinking in Java, Thinking in C++ and Thinking in Python among others. He also has a Programming Blog that is well worth a look. Let’s spend some time getting to know Bruce better! Can you
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