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Flask 101: Filtering Searches and Deleting Data
Last time we got our Flask based music database application partially functional. It could now add data to the database, edit said data and also display everything in the database. But we didn’t cover...
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PyDev of the Week: Damián Avila
This week we welcome Damián Avila as our PyDev of the Week! Damián works for Anaconda, an open source distribution of Python and R with a heavy focus on data science. He is also the author of RISE, a...
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wxPython Recipes Book Release
I was contacted earlier this year by Apress about republishing my book, wxPython Cookbook, under their branding. I thought it might be fun to see what I could learn from a publisher so I went with them...
View ArticlePyDev of the Week: Lynn Root
This week we welcome Lynn Root (@roguelynn) as our PyDev of the Week! Lynn is an organizer for PyLadies and PyCon 2017. She was doing some of the master of ceremonies duties when I was attending PyCon...
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PyDev of the Week: Brian Ray
This week we welcome Brian Ray as our PyDev of the Week! Brian is the author / speaker for Python From Scratch Life Lessons from O’Reilly. He is the founders and the former chair of ChiPy, the Chicago...
View ArticleTop Ten Python Articles of 2017
2017 was a big year when it comes to readership of this blog. It ended up with 1,027,600 sessions, 704,991 users and 1,233,805 page views. These numbers are nearly twice as much as 2015 and a pretty...
View ArticlePyDev of the Week: Nicholas Hunt-Walker
This week we welcome Nicholas Hunt-Walker (@nhuntwalker) as our PyDev of the Week! Nicholas studied to be an astrophysicist and then decided to switch to teaching programming and software development....
View ArticlewxPython Recipes Book Contest
I recently had my self-published book, “wxPython Cookbook” picked up by Apress and republished as wxPython Recipes. Since they gave me a few complimentary paperback copies, I have decided to do a...
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PyDev of the Week: Christy Heaton
This week we welcome Christy Heaton (@christytoes) as our PyDev of the Week! Christy is a blogger for the Python Software Foundation. You can see what she’s up to via her Github page or by checking out...
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PyDev of the Week: Christopher Truncer
This week we welcome Christopher Truncer (@ChrisTruncer) as our PyDev of the Week! He is a co-founder and current developer of the Veil-Framework. Christopher basically develops pen-testing utilities...
View ArticleHow to Use wxPython Demo Code Outside the Demo
Every now and then, someone will ask about how they can run the demo code from wxPython’s demo outside of the demo. In other words, they wonder how you can extract the code from the demo and run it in...
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ANN: ReportLab PDF Processing with Python Kickstarter
Have you ever wondered how to create PDF Reports programmatically? If so, then this is the book for you! In ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python, you will learn how to generate PDFs using the popular...
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PyDev of the Week: Joseph Howse
This week we welcome Joseph Howse (@CatsAndMonkeys) as our PyDev of the Week. Joseph is the author (or co-author) of several books on OpenCV: OpenCV for Secret Agents OpenCV 3 Blueprints iOS...
View ArticleReportLab Book Funded + TOC
After collating the various ideas that people have been giving me during the Kickstarter campaign, I have decided to firm up my table of contents. I had already planned to cover 80-90% or more of what...
View ArticlePyDev of the Week: Robert Cimrman
This week we welcome Robert Cimrman as our PyDev of the Week! Robert is the project leader of Sfepy: Simple Finite Elements in Python package. He is also a contributor to NumPy and SciPy. You can see...
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ReportLab 101: The textobject
The ReportLab toolkit provides multiple ways for you to generate text on your PDFs. The most popular examples that I have seen are using canvas methods or using PLATYPUS. The canvas method that you...
View ArticlePre-Order Python Interviews
I am happy to announce another book that I have been working on called Python Interviews from Packt Publishing. Here is the blurb from their website: Python Interviews contains a series of one-to-one...
View ArticlePyDev of the Week: Emily Morehouse-Valcarcel
This week we welcome Emily Morehouse-Valcarcel (@emilyemorehouse) as our PyDev of the Week. Emily is the co-founder and Director of Engineering of Cuttlesoft. She recently spoke at PyCascades about...
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ReportLab Book Cover Story
I really like coming up with fun covers for my books. I also like to find new artists for each book so that they all end up looking unique. I do plan to re-use one or two artists at some point though....
View ArticleReportLab Book Chapter Sampler
I thought it would be fun to create a sample of the book so you can get an idea of what the book will be like. So I created a PDF that contains the first 3 chapters of the book for you. Download Sample...
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