There are lots of fun Python snippets out there that you can use to convert your photos into ASCII art. Anthony Shaw, an author, and contributor at Real Python, has his own snippet on GitHub. Most of these small programs use the Pillow package. These programs work best with simple images, especially ones that don’t […]
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This week we welcome Parker Allen as our PyDev of the Week! Parker works at BentoBox a restaurant software company that uses Python on its backend. Let’s spend some time getting to know Parker! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I have a non-traditional route into becoming a software engineer.
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Learn how to edit and enhance photos using Pillow and the Python programming language. What you’ll learn in this video: Opening Images Extracting Image Information (EXIF) Cropping Rotating Image Enhancement Drawing Adding a GUI and more! Talk Notes / Jupyter Notebook Example Code from Pillow: Image Processing with Python book
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This week we welcome Haki Benita (@be_haki) as our PyDev of the Week! Haki is a contributor at Real Python. You can also see some of Haki’s work over on their own website or by checking out their GitHub profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know Haki better! Can you tell us a little
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This week we welcome Tristan Bunn as our PyDev of the Week! Tristan is the author of Learn Python Visually, a new Python book from No Starch Press. You can find out more about what Tristan is up to on his website or by visiting GitHub. Let’s spend a few moments getting to know Tristan
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This week we welcome Will McGugan (@willmcgugan) as our PyDev of the Week! Will is the author of the Rich package, which is for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. If you have a moment, you should check out Will’s blog. Will is also the author of Beginning Game Development with Python and
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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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Pillow: Image Processing with Python is my latest book on the Python programming language. The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon. The paperback version of the book is in full color. That is why it more expensive than any of my other books to purchase. I put together a little video where
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This week we welcome Ngazetungue Muheue (@muheuenga) as our PyDev of the Week! Ngazetungue helps organize PyCon Namibia and is the co-founder of Python Namibia. He is an active speaker and a member of the Python Software Foundation. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better! Can you tell us a little about yourself
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This week we welcome Yuxi (Hayden) Liu as our PyDev of the Week! Hayden is the author of Python Machine Learning By Example and other books. You can connect with Hayden on LinkedIn. Now let’s spend some time getting to know Hayden better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I
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This week we welcome John Sheehan (@JennaSys) as our PyDev of the Week. John is the author of React to Python. You can see what John has been up via his website or on his Github profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know John now! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies,
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This week we welcome Žan Anderle (@z_anderle) as our PyDev of the Week! Žan is a freelance software developer. You can check out his blog or check out his Github profile you’d like to know what he is up to. Let’s take some time to get to know Žan better! Can you tell us a
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This week we welcome Jens Winkelmann (@WinmanJ) as our PyDev of the Week! Jens is a former PhD researcher in the Foams and Complex System Group at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) but is now working as a Data Scientist at talpasolutions. You can find out more about what Jens does on his web page. Jens
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Once again the Python Packaging Index (PyPI) has been hit with malicious libraries. Over 3500 of them in fact. You can read more about this at The Register or the Sonatype Blog. The administrators at PyPI were quick to remove these libraries and minimize the risk of people installing them. On the plus side, these
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In this tutorial, I talk about some of Python’s most popular GUI frameworks. You will learn the basics of graphical user interfaces. Then you will learn how to create a simple image viewer using wxPython. Finally, you will see how to rewrite the image viewer using PySimpleGUI. Related Reading Creating an Image Viewer with PySimpleGUI
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