Scientists have used a new algorithm to take a photo of a black hole. One of the most exciting parts about it to me is that they used a lot of Python libraries to do the magic. Here’s a list mentioned in their paper: Numpy (van der Walt et al. 2011) Scipy (Jones et al. […]
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The ReportLab toolkit supports adding many different charts and graphs to your PDFs. In fact, I have covered some of them in a previous article. However most of the examples I have seen, including the ones in my own article, do not show how to insert a chart as a Flowable. What that means is
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This week we welcome Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer as our PyDev of the Week! Abdur-Rahmaan is the French translator of Think Python. You can see what he is up to on his blog as well as on Github. Let’s take a few moments to get to know him better! Can you tell us a little about yourself
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No Starch Press is best known for creating books on computer programming. However they recently released a new product called Python Flash Cards by Eric Matthes, the author of Python Crash Course. I thought this was a unique product and decided to ask for a review copy. The cards and their box are high quality.
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I thought it would be fun to write a bit about the cover art for my new book, Creating GUI Applications with wxPython. I had meant to post about that during the actual Kickstarter campaign. My original idea for the cover was to have the mouse directing a Phoenix to attack a snake. The Phoenix
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This week we welcome Kyle Stratis (@KyleStratis) as our PyDev of the Week! He is an active contributor at Real Python but also maintains his own website. You can catch up with his projects on Github as well. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Kyle! Can you tell us a little about
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The Publish-Subscribe pattern is pretty common in computer science and very useful too. The wxPython GUI toolkit has had an implementation of it for a very long time in wx.lib.pubsub. This implementation is based on the PyPubSub package. While you could always download PyPubSub and use it directly instead, it was nice to be able
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UPDATE: All copies of the book have now been claimed! Thanks for checking it out! Pearson recently contacted me about doing a giveaway of their new Python book, Python for Programmers: with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Case Studies I have 5 copies of the eBook to giveaway. All you need to do to claim
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This week we welcome Miro HronÄok (@hroncok) as our PyDev of the Week! Miro teaches at Czech Technical University and helps out with the local PyLadies chapter. He is also involved with the Special Interest Group for Python in Fedora as he works for Red Hat in addition to his teaching position. You can check
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A couple of months ago, No Starch Press asked me if I would be interested in reading one of their new books called Mission Python: Code a Space Adventure Game! by Sean McManus. I enjoy reading new tech books, but it’s hard to work them in when I’ve been so busy this past year. However
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Let’s say you finished up a wonderful GUI application using wxPython. How do you share it with the world? This is always the dilemma when you finish an amazing program. Fortunately, there are several ways you can share your code. If you want to share your code with other developers, than Github or a similar
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This week we welcome Bruno Rocha (@rochacbruno) as our PyDev of the Week! Bruno works for Red Hat and participates in the Python, Flask and Rust communities. You can see some of his projects over on Github or check out some of his writings on Medium. Let’s take a few moments to get to know
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This week we welcome Maria Khalusova ( @mariakhalusova) as our PyDev of the Week! Maria works for JetBrains and will be speaking at AnacondaCON this April. If you’d like to catch up with her, you can check out Maria’s blog. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Maria better! Can you tell us
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No Starch Press asked me to do a technical review of one of their upcoming books, Serious Python: Black-Belt Advice on Deployment, Scalability, Testing, and More by Julien Danjou last year. I had never worked with No Starch before, but decided to give them a try and see how they differed from Packt Publishing. I
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This week we welcome Mariusz Felisiak (@MariuszFelisiak) as our PyDev of the Week! Mariusz is a core developer of the Django web framework and a maintainer of the django-request package. You can follow Mariusz over on Github to see what he’s been up to. Let’s spend some time getting to know Mariusz! Can you tell
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