Clik here to view.
Reportlab – How to Create Barcodes in Your PDFs with Python
The Reportlab library is a great way to generate PDFs in Python. Recently, I noticed that it has the ability to do barcodes. I had heard about it being able to generate QR codes, but I hadn’t really...
View ArticleClik here to view.
eBook Review: Learn Python Quickly
A couple months ago, I was contacted by John Rowland. He is the author of the brand new eBook Learn Python Quickly and he was contacting me about using one of my blog articles as the basis for one of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
eBook Review: Treading on Python Volume 2: Intermediate Python
Last week, Matt Harrison sent me a copy of his latest Python eBook entitled Treading on Python Vol 2: Intermediate Python. I was intrigued since I rarely get to read Intermediate level Python books....
View ArticleClik here to view.
PySide: Creating a Currency Converter
I am currently reading through Mark Summerfield’s book on PyQt, Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt and thought it would be fun to take some of the example applications in it and convert them to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
PySide: Connecting Multiple Widgets to the Same Slot
As I learn PyQt and PySide, I am writing some tutorials to help my fellow travelers. Today we’ll be looking at how to connect multiple widgets to the same slot. In other words, we’ll be binding the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Python Brochure Project Preview
I had heard about the Python Brochure Project last year but was under the impression that it was for corporations at that time as it seemed that you had to purchase them. It looked really good, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
PySide: Standard Dialogs and Message Boxes
The PySide GUI toolkit for Python has several standard dialogs and message boxes that you can use as-is. You can also create custom dialogs, but we’ll be saving that for a future article. In this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
eBook Review: Real Python
I recently received my copy of Real Python by Fletcher Heisler and just finished reading it. I got it as a bonus from a recent KickStarter campaign for the sequel to the book, Real Python for Web...
View ArticleClik here to view.
wxPython – Having Fun with Silly Ciphers
When I was a kid, I was really into secret codes and ciphers. I thought they were all kinds of fun. My mom thought it would be fun to use some of the ciphers I was so enamored with in treasure hunts...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Python 101 – Intro to XML Parsing with ElementTree
If you have followed this blog for a while, you may remember that we’ve covered several XML parsing libraries that are included with Python. In this article, we’ll be continuing that series by taking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Python 102: How to Send an Email Using smtplib + email
I wrote an article on this topic several years ago, but I think it is time for me to revisit it. Why? Well, lately I’ve been doing a lot of work on a program for sending emails and I’ve been looking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Python: Distributing Data Support Files in a zip
The other day, I heard that when we transfer some of our scripts to our batch farm, we cannot transfer sub-folders. So if I have a directory structure like the following, it needs to be flattened: Top...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free books (and other free resources) about Python
Some people don’t realize this, but there are a lot of free books about the Python programming language. Yes, some of them aren’t that great, but there’s a lot of really good resources out here that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
wxPython: How to Minimize to System Tray
I see people asking about this topic from time to time in various places on the internet. Making wxPython minimize to the tray is really quite simple, but there is at least one thing you need to watch...
View ArticleClik here to view.
wxPython: Making your Frame Maximize or Full Screen
This topic comes up from time to time every year. Someone will ask about how to make their application full screen or how to just make it maximize when it first loads. So we’ll spend a little time...
View ArticleClik here to view.
PyPdf: How to Write a PDF to Memory
At my job, we sometimes need to write a PDF to memory instead of disk because we need to merge an overlay on to it. By writing to memory, we can speed up the process since we won’t have the extra step...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Connecting to Dropbox with Python
Yesterday, I stumbled on to Dropbox’s Python API. I ended up using their tutorial to design a simple class for accessing my Dropbox. You’ll need to download their dropbox module to follow along or use...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Python Logging: How to Log to Multiple Locations
Today I decided to figure out how to make Python log to a file and the console simultaneously. Most of the time, I just want to log to a file, but occasionally I want to be able to see stuff on the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reportlab – All About Fonts
Have you ever wondered how to embed custom fonts in Reportlab? Or maybe you just want to switch fonts or change the font’s color. Well in this tutorial, we’ll take a look at all of these questions....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Book Preview: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python
Earlier this year, Packt Publishing asked me to be a technical reviewer of one of their upcoming books, “Building Machine Learning Systems with Python” by Willi Richert and Luis Pedro Coelho. Now the...
View Article
