In honor of PyCon 2019 that is starting this week, I am putting three of my books on sale. You can get any of the following books for $9.99 through May 6th by clicking on the links: Python 201: Intermediate Python ReportLab – PDF Processing with Python Jupyter Notebook 101 Python 201 is a fun […]
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This week we welcome Neil Muller as our PyDev of the Week! Neil is an organizer for Cape Town Python User Group and PyCon ZA. He also speaks at conferences! You can learn more about his open source projects over on Github. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Neil better! Can you
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This week we welcome Dane Hillard (@easyaspython) as our PyDev of the Week! Dane is the author Practices of the Python Pro, an upcoming book from Manning. He is also a blogger and web developer. Let’s take some time to get to know Dane! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc):
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Growing up, I have always found the universe and space in general to be exciting. It is fun to dream about what worlds remain unexplored. I also enjoy seeing photos from other worlds or thinking about the vastness of space. What does this have to do with Python though? Well, the National Aeronautics and Space
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This week we welcome Pierre Denis as our PyDev of the Week! Pierre is the creator of Lea, a probabilistic programming package in Python. He can be found on LinkedIn where you can see his CV and learn more about some of the things he is up to. Let’s take a few moments to get
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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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