The wxPython project made a major announcement over the weekend in releasing an alpha version of the new wxPython “Phoenix” package to the Python Packaging Index (PyPI). wxPython is a major cross-platform desktop graphics user interface toolkit for Python. It wraps wxWidgets and is one of the major competitors to PyQt. All new releases of […]
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This week we welcome James Bennett as our PyDev of the Week! James is one of the core developers of the Django web framework. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Django Software Foundation. James maintains a blog and has several fun projects over on Github that are worth checking out. Now
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This week we welcome PaweÅ‚ Piotr Przeradowski (@squeaky_pl ) as our PyDev of the Week! Pawel is the creative mind behind Japronto, which is a Python 3.5+ web micro-framework integrated with pipelining HTTP server based on uvloop and picohttpparser. Pawel has a couple of other interesting projects over on Github as well. Let’s take a
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This week we welcome Russell Keith-Magee as our PyDev of the Week! Russell is a core Django developer and former president of the Django software Foundation. He has been a contributor to the open source community for quite some time. You can see some of his contributions over on Github. He is also the founder
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This week we welcome Roman Sirokov as our PyDev of the Week! He is the author of pywebview, which is a cross-platform lightweight native wrapper around a web view component. You can basically create a desktop user interface using web technologies and frameworks. He is quite active on Github where you can see all the
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This video tutorial is about Python’s csv module. It comes from my first book, Python 101. You can also read a version of this here.
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My Python 101 online course will be completely FREE for the next 48 hours on Educative’s website. Be sure to go get yourself a copy. It is based on my Python 101 book. When you get it from Educative, it will be yours to keep for life. Note that this is an interactive online course,
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This week we welcome Paul Moore as our PyDev of the Week! Paul is a core developer of pip, the defacto method of installing packages in Python as well as a core developer of Python itself. You can get a glimpse of some of the projects that Paul is involved with on his Github profile.
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Python comes with its own code editor: IDLE (Integreted Development and Learning Environment). There is some lore that the name for IDLE comes from Eric Idle, an actor in Monty Python. An IDE is an editor for programmers that provides color highlighting of key words in the language, auto-complete, an “experimental” debugger and lots of
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Python has some powerful features that allow you to introspect your code or the code of others. I created the following video tutorial to help you learn how that works. This tutorial is from the Python 101 Screencast Related Articles Python 101: Introspection
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The Python programming language has several built-in types that it supports. One of my favorites is the dictionary. A dictionary is a mapping object maps hashable values to arbitrary objects (source). Other languages call dictionaries “hash tables”. They are mutable objects that you can change whenever you want to, unlike tuples. A dictionary’s keys must
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Last week I was doing some Test Driven Development training and overheard someone mention another programming language that had a test runner that you could set up to watch your project directory and run your tests when the files changed. I thought that was a neat idea. I also thought I could easily write my
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This week we welcome Luke Plant as our PyDev of the Week. Luke is one of the core developers of Django, a very popular Python web framework. Luke writes a blog with many articles about Django. If you’d like to see some of Luke’s contributions, then you will want to wander over to his Github
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Last year I ran into a situation where I needed to know if a function had been called. Basically we were trying to prevent shutting down a Twisted event loop twice or starting two of them. Anyway, in my research I stumbled across a fun post on StackOverflow that showed a couple of ways to
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My second book, Python 201: Intermediate Python, was just released as an online course over at Educative. I also have Python 101 on there as well. Educative is a pretty new educational website. It’s kind of like Code Academy except that they usually charge for access to all their courses. Note: This is NOT a
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