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Python 3.5 added an interesting new library called typing. This adds type hinting to Python. Type hinting is kind of declaring your functions arguments to have a certain type. However the type hinting is not binding. It’s just a hint, so there’s nothing preventing the programmer from passing something they shouldn’t. This is Python after […]
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This week we welcome Ian Cordasco as our PyDev of the Week. He is a very active contributor to many Python-related projects, such as Requests, Flake8, PyFlakes and much more. Let’s spend some time getting to know our fellow Pythonista! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): My educational background is
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This week we welcome Fernando Doglio as our PyDev of the Week. While Fernando hasn’t been using Python for long, he did author the book, Mastering Python High Performance for Packt Publishing. If you’d like to see what Fernando has been up to, I recommend checking out his Github profile. Let’s spend some time getting
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I recently came across a post by BusinessInsider that claimed that Python was one of the top eight languages to have on your resume in 2016. Python comes in at 6th place. However, the article cites an article on CodingDojo as its source of information, which was talking about “The 8 Most In-Demand Programming Languages of 2015”.
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This week we welcome Fabio Zadrozny (@fabiofz) as our PyDev of the Week. He is the current force behind the PyDev project, a Python IDE for Eclipse. Fabio works on many other projects, as you will see if you check out his github profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better.
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This week we welcome Mahesh Venkitachalam (@electronutIN) as our PyDev of the Week. He is the author of Python Playground: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer from No Starch Press. Mahesh has a very interesting blog that contains a lot of articles about hardware hacking. I recommend checking it out. Now let’s spend some time
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This week we welcome Florian Bruhin as our PyDev of the Week. Let’s spend some time getting to know our fellow Pythonista! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): My name is Florian Bruhin, I’m currently 22.9 years old, and living in Switzerland. I’m working as an electronical engineer (though, ironically,
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No Starch Press recently sent me a book called Python Playground: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer by Mahesh Venkitachalam to review. I don’t normally get books from that publisher so I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the book is quite good. But I won’t provide any spoilers here as we have a quick
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I’m putting my book, Python 101, on sale for the rest of the month of December. You can now get it for 50% off of the eBook by using the following offer code: xmas2015 This code also works for pre-ordering the Python 101 Screencast, which is a series of videos based on the Python 101
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Last month I wrote about context managers and a company called Webucator asked me for my permission to turn the article into a screencast. It ended up looking pretty good. Check it out below: Webucator has other Python related training too. I don’t know much about them, but if this video is any indication, I
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Many programming languages have the concept of the lambda function. In Python, the lambda is an anonymous function or unbound function. The syntax for them looks a bit odd, but it’s actually just taking a simple function and turning it into a one-liner. Let’s look at a regular simple function to start off: #———————————————————————- def
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The wxPython toolkit added context managers to its code base a few years ago, but for some reason you don’t see very many examples of their use. In this article, we’ll look at three examples of context managers in wxPython. A wxPython user was the first person to suggest using context managers in wxPython on
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Python came out with a special new keyword several years ago in Python 2.5 that is known as the “with statement”. This new keyword allows a developer to create context managers. But wait! What’s a context manager? They are handy constructs that allow you to set something up and tear something down automatically. For example,
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This week we welcome Ryan Mitchell (@Kludgist) as our PyDev of the Week. Ryan is the author of Web Scraping with Python and Instant Web Scraping with Java. Let’s spend some time getting to know Ryan better.
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Packt Publishing recently sent me a copy of Mastering Python High Performance by Fernando Doglio. They also had me be a technical reviewer of the book before its publication. Anyway let’s do a quick review and if you think it sounds interesting, you can check out my full review too! Quick Review Why I picked
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