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This week we welcome Jessica Ingrassellino (@jess_ingrass) as our PyDev of the Week. Jessica is the founder of teachcode.org, where you can schedule teaching classes with Jessica. She is also the author of Python Projects for Kids. Let’s take some time to get to know her better! Can you tell us a little about yourself […]
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Machine Learning, artificial intelligence and face recognition are big topics right now. So I thought it would be fun to see how easy it is to use Python to detect faces in photos. This article will focus on just detecting faces, not face recognition which is actually assigning a name to a face. The most
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I recently released a new book entitled ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python. In celebration of a successful launch, I have decided to do a little contest. Rules Post a comment telling me why you would want a copy The most clever or heartfelt commenter will be chosen by me The contest will run starting now
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In this screencast, you will learn the basics of Python’s sys module from the standard library. You can also read the chapter this screencast is based on here or on Leanpub Check out the entire Python 101 Screencast play list
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There’s only two days left to join the Kickstarter for my latest book, Jupyter Notebook 101. It’s also one of the best times to help out as you get to help shape the book right now. I always take my reader’s feedback when writing my books into consideration and have added lots of extra information
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This week we welcome Lovely ricel Banquil (AKA Banx) as our PyDev of the Week. Banx is a tester by trade and recently presented a talk at PyCon Thailand. Let’s spend some time getting to know Lovely better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): Hi! My name is Banx and
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In this screencast, we will learn the basics of Python’s subprocess module. Feel free to read the book that this video is based on here: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or purchase the book on Leanpub
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This week we welcome Thea Flowers (@theavalkyrie) as our PyDev of the Week! Thea is a maintainer of packaging.python.org and the urllib3 package. Thea also is very active in the Python community and is a new board member of the Python Software Foundation. You can find out more about Thea on her website, Github. Let’s
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In this screencast, we will be learning about Python’s builtin sqlite module. This episode is based on chapter 18 of Python 101, which you can read here: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/
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I am about halfway through the Kickstarter campaign for my new book, Jupyter Notebook 101 and thought it would be fun to share my current tentative table of contents: Intro Chapter 1: Creating Notebooks Chapter 2: Rich Text (Markdown, images, etc) Chapter 3: Configuring Your Notebooks Chapter 4: Distributing Notebooks Chapter 5: Notebook Extensions Chapter
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I am currently working on a new book called Jupyter Notebook 101 that I am planning to release in November 2018. I have put together a PDF that shows a rough draft of the first couple of chapters of the book along with an appendix. You can check out the PDF here: jupyternotebook101-preview If you
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Learn how to use Python’s email and smtp modules in this video. You can also read the written version of this video here: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or get the book here: https://leanpub.com/python_101
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When you are first starting out learning how to program, one of the first things you will want to learn is what an error message means. In Python, error messages are usually called tracebacks. Here are some common traceback errors: SyntaxError ImportError or ModuleNotFoundError AttributeError NameError When you get an error, it is usually recommended
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This week we welcome Christopher Neugebauer (@chrisjrn) as our PyDev of the Week! Christopher helped organize North Bay Python and PyCon Australia. He is also a fellow of the Python Software Foundation. You can catch up with him on Github or on his website. If you are interested in being a part of the North
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In this episode you will learn about Python’s os module. This episode is based on my book, Python 101, which you can get on Leanpub here https://leanpub.com/python_101 or read online at http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/
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