I was recently looking into ways to get my screen resolution with Python to help diagnose an issue with an application that wasn’t behaving correctly. In this article, we’ll look at some of the ways to get your screen resolution. Not all of the solutions will be cross-platform, but I’ll be sure to mention that […]
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This week we would like to welcome Lacey Williams Henschel (@laceynwilliams) as our PyDev of the Week. She is very active with the Django Girls organization. Let’s spend some time getting to know her better!
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I am launching a back-to-school sale of my Python 101 course. You can get the Python 101 book now for 50% by using the following offer code: fall2015. This offer is good until September 15, 2015. You can also get my Python 101 Screencast for 50% off (i.e. $25 no offer code required). It includes
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This week we welcome Ram Rachum as our PyDev of the Week. Ram is the author of the Python Toolbox and PythonTurtle. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better!
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This week we welcome Patrick Maupin as our PyDev of the Week. Let’s spend some time getting to know Patrick a bit better. Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I was born in San Antonio, Texas and raised in Austin. I spent several months working in England, and met and
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I meant to post this earlier, but I’ve been experiencing some issues with my laptop. Anyway, here’s the last free video from my Python 101 Screencast series. In this episode, you will learn the basics of using classes in Python 3. I hope you enjoy it!
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This week we welcome Aaron Maxwell as our PyDev of the Week! Aaron is the author of the Advanced Python Newsletter and a very enthusiastic Pythonista. You can check out his github profile to get an idea of what he’s been up to. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better.
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This week we would like to welcome Yasoob Khalid (@yasoobkhalid) as our PyDev of the Week. He is the writer behind the Free Python Tips blog. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better.
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The other day, I came across an interesting StackOverflow question where the fellow was trying to figure out how to open a sub-frame only once. Basically he wanted a single instance of the sub-frame (and other sub-frames). After digging around a bit on Google, I found an old thread from the wxPython Google Group that
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I recently completed Episode #10 of the Python 101 Screencast. It’s about the basics of functions. I hope you like it!
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This week we would like to welcome Kevin Ollivier as our PyDev of the Week. He’s helped me (and many others) lots of times on the wxPython mailing list. Let’s spend some time getting to know him a bit better.
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I recently came across a StackOverflow question where the fellow was asking how to get wxPython’s RichTextCtrl’s XML data so he could save it to a database. I don’t know much about this control, but after a quick Google search, I found an article from 2008 that gave me the information I needed. I took
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Check out my latest episode of Python 101. This one is talks about how imports work in Python. You will learn about the following aspects of importing: import from module import submodule from module import * Enjoy!
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This week we welcome Alex Gaynor (@alex_gaynor) as our PyDev of the Week! Alex writes an interesting Python blog and is on the board of directors for the Python Software Foundation. You can get a feel for the projects that Alex contributes to via his Github page. Let’s spend some time getting to know him
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Check out my latest video from the Python 101 Screencast. In this episode we learn how to use Python’s file handling capabilities. You will learn how to read, write and append to a file.
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