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PyDev of the Week: Juan Luis Cano
This week we welcome Juan Luis Cano (@astrojuanlu) as our PyDev of the Week! He is the chair of the Python Spain non-profit and the author of the poliastro project. If you can read Spanish, then you...
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ReportLab Book Kickstarter’s – 2 Days Left
There is only a little over 2 days left for my ReportLab book Kickstarter. This is your only chance to purchase a signed copy of the book and it’s also probably the cheapest way of getting the eBooks...
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PyDev of the Week: David Litvak
This week we welcome David Litvak (@dlitvakb) as our PyDev of the Week! He has presented at PyCon Argentina and PyCaribbean. Feel free to check out his website or Github to see what he’s been up to....
View ArticlePython 3.7 – Dictionaries now ordered
One of my readers pointed out to me that Python 3.7 will now have ordered dictionaries by default. You can read the “announcement” over on the Python-Dev list. Python’s dict has always been unordered...
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Python Interviews Book Released!
My Python Interviews book is now officially released! In it you will find 20 interviews with Python experts from a diverse set of fields. I also have a special code from Packt that will take 40% off...
View ArticlePyDev of the Week: Alan Vezina
This week we welcome Alan Vezina (@fancysandwiches) as our PyDev of the Week! He is one of the co-founders of PuPPy (Puget Sound Programming Python), a Python user’s group in Seattle, WA. He is also...
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Python Interviews Excerpt: Sebastian Raschka
The following is an excerpt from my book, Python Interviews Sebastian Raschka received his doctorate in Quantitative Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2017, from Michigan State...
View ArticlePyDev of the Week: Jason Myers
This week we welcome Jason Myers as our PyDev of the Week! Jason is the co-author of Essential SQLAlchemy: Mapping Python to Databases, 2nd Edition and is also an instructor at DataCamp. If you have...
View ArticlePython 3: An Intro to f-strings
Python 3.6 added another way to do string interpolation that is called “f-strings” or Formatted string literals (PEP 498). The idea behind f-strings is to make string interpolation simpler. To create...
View Article10 Years of Mouse Vs the Python
When I first started this blog, ten years ago today, I never thought I would be blogging about Python for a decade. In fact, the very first post wasn’t even about the Python language itself, but about...
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PyDev of the Week: Elias Dorneles
This week we welcome Elias Dorneles as our PyDev of the Week! Elias works on the tooling of the Beeware Suite and contributes to several other projects too, all of which you can see on Github. He also...
View ArticlePython 3: An Intro to Enumerations
Python added the enum module to the standard library in version 3.4. The Python documentation describes an enum like this: An enumeration is a set of symbolic names (members) bound to unique, constant...
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PyDev of the Week: Yusuke Tsutsumi
This week we welcome Yusuke Tsutsumi as our PyDev of the Week! Yusuke is a web developer for Zillow and has been working on open source projects for several years. He has a blog where you can learn...
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Talk Python Podcast and Twitter Q&A
Last week I was honored to be a part of the Talk Python to Me Podcast. During the podcast, we talked about the history of Python as well as its future. We also talked about the books I have written and...
View ArticlePyDev of the Week: Martijn Faassen
This week we welcome Martijn Faassen (@faassen) as our PyDev of the Week! Martijn is the creator of the popular lxml package and the Morepath web framework, among others. You can see what else he is up...
View ArticlePyDev of the Week: Amanda Sopkin
This week we welcome Amanda Sopkin (@amandasopkin) as our PyDev of the Week! She enjoys writing, teaching and the hackathon community. Amanda has given several talks at various Python conferences as...
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Python Image Processing Kickstarter Coming Next Week!
I will be launching a new Kickstarter on Monday, January 4th to help launch my 9th book, Pillow: Image Processing with Python. In this book, you will learn how to edit photos with Python. You will...
View ArticlePyDev of the Week: Froilán Irizarry Rivera
This week we welcome Froilán Irizarry Rivera (@froidotdev) as our PyDev of the Week! Froilán does code live streaming on Twitch. Froilán helped found Fullstack Knights which is a monthly meetup and...
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Announcing: Image Processing with Python Kickstarter
I am happy to announce my latest book project, Pillow: Image Processing with Python. This book will teach you how to use Pillow, the “friendly” fork of the Python Imaging Library (PIL). You can...
View ArticleNew Effective Book Authoring Course from Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison asked me to take part in his latest course, Effective Book Authoring. This course will help you learn how to write a technical book. Matt interviewed me about how I approach book writing....
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