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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Python added syntax for what something called Variable Annotation in the version 3.6. Variable Annotation is basically an enhancement of type hinting, which was introduced in Python 3.5. The full explanation behind Variable Annotation is explained in PEP 526. In this article, we will have a quick refresher on type hinting and then introduce the
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It’s that time of year again where the holidays are upon us, so I am doing a sale of some of my works. You can get Python 101 for FREE and Python 201: Intermediate Python for 50% off. Here are the coupon codes you can use: For Python 101 – au-py101-free For Python 201 –
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This week we welcome Matthew Makai as our PyDev of the Week! Matthew is the creator of Full Stack Python and he also works with Michael Kennedy on his Python for Entrepreneurs video course. You might also want to check out what he’s been up to over on Github. Let’s take a few minutes to
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Sometimes it’s fun to add a simple border to your photos. The Pillow package has a very easy method of adding such borders to your images via its ImageOps module. As usual, you will need to have Pillow installed to do any of the examples in this article. If you don’t have it already, you
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I recently came across a question on StackOverflow where the user wanted to know how to drag images onto their image control in wxPython and have the dragged image resize into a thumbnail. This piqued my interest and I decided to figure out how to do it. I knew that you could create a thumbnail
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Sometimes when you take a photo you will find that it isn’t quite what you wanted. The picture looks great, but it’s just a little too dark. Or it’s a little blurry and you need to add sharpness. The sharpness issue isn’t anywhere near as bad nowadays because a lot of cameras will add sharpness
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This week we welcome Paul Kehrer (@reaperhulk) as our PyDev of the Week! Paul is a core developer of the cryptography package. He also the maintainer of pyOpenSSL, bcrypt, and PyNaCl. You can get a feel for what he’s up to over on Github. Paul also has a fun blog that is worth checking out.
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When you look up photos online, you will notice that some of them are watermarked. A watermark is usually some text or a logo overlaid on the photo that identifies who took the photo or who owns the rights to the photo. Some professionals recommend adding watermarks to your photos before sharing them on social
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This week we welcome Bruno Oliveira (@nicoddemus) as our PyDev of the Week! Bruno is a core developer of the pytest package, a 3rd party Python package created for writing unit tests. You can check out some of his work over on Github. Bruno also has a small blog with some articles on Python. Let’s
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Sometimes you will find yourself wanting to resize a photo. I usually want to do this for photos that I want to email or post on a website since some of my images can be quite large. Normal people use an image editor. I usually do as well, but for fun I thought I would
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Black and white images aren’t for everyone. I personally like to play around with them as you can sometimes take a boring photo and turn it into something dramatic. I have also rescued a drab photo by turning it black and white. If you want to change a photo that you took into a black
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This week we welcome Giampaolo Rodola’ (@grodola) as our PyDev of the Week! Giampaolo is the creator and maintainer of the psutil project as well as the pyftpdlib and pysendfile packages. He is also been a core developer and maintainer of ftplib, asyncore and asynchat stdlib modules. You can check out some of his work
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