Learn the basics of Python with these beginner-friendly tutorials
This episode focuses on the Harlequin application, a Python SQL IDE for your terminal written using the amazing Textual package. I was honored to have Ted Conbeer, the creator of Harlequin, on the show to discuss his creation and the other things he does with Python. Specifically, we focused on the following topics: Favorite Python packages Origins […]
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In this episode, I chatted with Armin Ronacher about his many amazing Python packages, such as pygments, flask, Jinja, Rye, and Click! Specifically, we talked about the following: How Flask came about Favorite Python packages Python packaging and much more! Links Sentry Rye Flask pygments Jinja Click uv
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Python’s logging module isn’t the only way to create logs. There are several third-party packages you can use, too. One of the most popular is Loguru. Loguru intends to remove all the boilerplate you get with the Python logging API. You will find that Loguru greatly simplifies creating logs in Python. This chapter has the following sections: Installation
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The Matplotlib package is great for visualizing data. One of its many features is the ability to annotate points on your graph. You can use annotations to explain why a particular data point is significant or interesting. If you haven’t used Matplotlib before, you should check out my introductory article, Matplotlib – An Intro to
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I’m a little late in reporting on this topic, but Ruff put out an update in April 2024 that includes a hand-written recursive descent parser. This update is in version 0.4.0 and newer. Ruff’s new parser is >2x faster, translating to a 20-40% speedup for all linting and formatting invocations. Ruff’s announcement includes some statistics
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In this episode, we discuss working on several different open-source Python packages. Antonio Cuni is our guest, and he chats about his work on PyScript, pdb++, pypy, HPy, and SPy. Listen in as we chat about Python, packages, open source, and so much more! Show Links Here are some of the projects we talked about
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Matplotlib is one of the most popular data visualization packages for the Python programming language. It allows you to create many different charts and graphs. This tutorial focuses on adding a “watermark” to your graph. If you need to learn the basics, you might want to check out Matplotlib—An Intro to Creating Graphs with Python.
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Python 3.13 adds the ability to remove the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) per PEP 703. Just this past week, a PR was merged in that allows the disabling of the GIL using a command line flag or an environment variable in free-threaded builds. Note that Python must be built using the Py_GIL_DISABLED flag for this
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I recently put my Python 101 Video Course up on Udemy and TutorialsPoint. There are one thousand free copies of the course available on Udemy by using the following link: https://www.udemy.com/course/python-101-c/?couponCode=A9CBEA3F6A1790FA40FF If you prefer TutorialsPoint, you can get a free copy here: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python-101-with-mike-driscoll/index.asp Use coupon code: py101 The Python 101 video course is also available
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There’s a new Python package installer out now and it’s called uv. The uv package installer and resolver is made by Astral. Uv is written in Rust instead of Python and is super fast! Astral is best known for Python’s fastest formatter, Ruff. The uv package is meant to be a drop-in replacement for pip and pip-tools.
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In Automating Excel with Python: Processing Spreadsheets with OpenPyXL, you will learn how to use Python to create, edit, or read Microsoft Excel documents using OpenPyXL. This course is based on the book, Automating Excel with Python by Michael Driscoll. Python is a versatile programming language. You can use Python to read, write and edit
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Episode 27 of The Python Show Podcast welcomes Lukasz Langa as our guest. Lukasz is a CPython Developer in Residence, which means he works full-time on the core CPython language. He is also the creator of Black, a super popular Python code formatter. In this episode, we talked about the following topics: Core python development
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Animated GIFs are a fun way to share silent videos on social media. This website has a tutorial to help you learn how to create your own animated GIFs with Python. But what if you wanted to view an animated GIF with Python? If you’re wondering if Python can present an animated GIF to the
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The Ruff linter is a Python linter written in Rust that is super fast. The people behind Ruff recently released a new tool that is a part of Ruff that allows Ruff to format your Python code using the Black rules. In this episode, I speak with Charlie Marsh, the original creator of Ruff and the founder of Astral,
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner, so let’s start the holidays early with some amazing Python-related deals! You can take 33% off ANY of my self-published books on Gumroad by using the following coupon code: black23 I am also running a 33% off sale on all my Python courses over on Teach Me Python using the
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