Cyborg Security reported recently that malware is starting to appear that has been written using the Python programming language. Traditionally, most malware has been written in compiled languages, such as C or C++. The reason is simple. Compiled languages let the attacker create smaller, harder to detect, executables. However, Python’s popularity and ease of use […]
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The Python community is amazing. I started learning Python over 15 years ago and the community was almost always very supportive in helping me figure things out. However, the past few years there seems to have been a shift. I’m not sure if it’s just because Python has grown so much in popularity or if
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This week we welcome Or Carmi (@liiight) as our PyDev of the Week! Or is the creator and maintainer of notifiers. You can see what else Or has been up to by checking out his Github profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know Or better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies,
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I am on the latest Real Python podcast where I talk about my ReportLab book, wxPython, and lots more. The podcast episode that I take part in is called Episode 20: Building PDFs in Python with ReportLab. Check it out and feel free to ask questions in the comments. Related Articles Talk Python Podcast and
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This week we welcome Carlton Gibson (@carltongibson) as our PyDev of the Week. Carlton is a core developer of the Django REST Framework and maintainer of Django Filter, Crispy Forms and more. Carlton is the co-host of the Django Talk podcast. You can see what Carlton is currently working on over on Github. Let’s spend
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Jupyter Notebooks to create slide show presentations. This allows you to run and edit live code in your slides. Want to learn more about Jupyter Notebook? Then check out my book, Jupyter Notebook 101, available on Leanpub, Amazon, and Gumroad
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This week we welcome Jim Crist-Harif (@jcristharif) as our PyDev of the Week! Jim is a contributor to Dask, Skein and several other data science / machine learning Python packages. Jim also blogs about Python. You can see what he is currently working on over on Github. Let’s spend some time getting to know Jim!
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In this video, you will get an introduction to ReportLab’s Canvas object. You use ReportLab to create PDFs using Python and this tutorial will show you one way to accomplish that Want to learn more about working with PDFs in Python? Then check out my book: ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python Purchase now on Leanpub
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Most CPU manufacturers are creating multi-core CPUs now. Even cell phones come with multiple cores! Python threads can’t use those cores because of the Global Interpreter Lock. Starting in Python 2.6, the multiprocessing module was added which lets you take full advantage of all the cores on your machine. In this article, you will learn
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Learn the basics of using JupyterLab which is the replacement for Jupyter Notebook, in my latest video tutorial. Buy the book: https://leanpub.com/jupyternotebook101/
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This week we welcome Dr. David Pena as our PyDev of the Week! David is the author of StremeCoder, a Graphical Python Programming Editor. You can learn more about what David has been up to through his Github profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know David better! Can you tell us a little about
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to add a wx.Notebook to your GUI application using wxPython. The notebook widget is how you would add a tabbed interface to your application. Related articles wxPython: A Simple Notebook Example The “Book” Controls of wxPython (Part 1 of 2)
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In this video tutorial, you will learn about the following: Create dictionaries Access dictionaries Dictionary methods Modifying dictionaries Deleting from your dictionary If you prefer to read your tutorials, then you can check out this one: Python 101 – Learning About Dictionaries
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Mistakes in your code are known as “bugs”. You will make mistakes. You will make many mistakes, and that’s totally fine. Most of the time, they will be simple mistakes such as typos. But since computers are very literal, even typos prevent your code from working as intended. So they need to be fixed. The
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This week we welcome Philip James (@phildini) as our PyDev of the Week! Philip is a core contributor for Beeware project. He has worked on several other open source projects that you’ll learn about in this interview. He is also a popular speaker at PyCons and DjangoCons. You can find out more about Philip on
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