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Pillow: Image Processing with Python Book Sample
The Kickstarter for my latest book, Pillow: Image Processing with Python, was fully funded yesterday. I know it can be hard to decide if you want to buy a book without seeing it, so I am posting the...
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PyDev of the Week: Ken Youens-Clark
This week we welcome Ken Youens-Clark (@kycl4rk) as our PyDev of the Week! He is the author of Tiny Python Projects from Manning. He has done video lectures for each of his chapters on YouTube. Let’s...
View ArticleGet Python 101 2nd Edition FREE for 72 Hours!
Python 101 2nd Edition is the latest version of Python 101. This book is meant to help you learn Python and then go beyond the basics. I’ve always felt that a beginner’s book should teach more than...
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Getting GPS EXIF Data with Python
Did you know that you can get EXIF data from JPG image files using the Python programming language? You can use Pillow, the Python Imaging Library’s friendly fork to do so. You can read an article...
View ArticlePyDev of the Week: Claudia Regio
This week we welcome Claudia Regio (@ClaudiaRegio) as our PyDev of the Week! Claudia is a program manager for Python Data Science with a focus on Python Notebooks in Visual Studio Code at Microsoft....
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PySimpleGUI: Working with Multiple Windows
When you are creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs), you will often find that you need to create more than one window. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create two windows with PySimpleGUI....
View ArticlePyDev of the Week: Leodanis Pozo Ramos
This week we welcome Leodanis Pozo Ramos (@lpozo78) as our PyDev of the Week! Leodanis is a contributor and author for Real Python. You can see some of his projects over on Github or see what he’s up...
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Image Processing with Python Kickstarter Ending Soon
My Kickstarter for my latest book, Pillow: Image Processing with Python is ending in 8 days. You should check it out and learn how you can edit photos with Python! You will learn about the following...
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Create an EXIF Viewer with PySimpleGUI
The Pillow package gives you the ability to extract EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) metadata from images. You can get a lot of information about your images via the EXIF data. However, there are...
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An Intro to Python Virtual Environments
Python has the concept of the virtual environments built-in to the language. A Python virtual environment is an environment where you can install 3rd party packages for testing without affecting the...
View ArticlePyDev of the Week: Carl Friedrich Bolz
This week we welcome Carl Friedrich Bolz (@cfbolz) as our PyDev of the Week! Carl is a core developer of PyPy, which is an RPython variant of CPython that runs faster in general than regular Python. If...
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Drawing Text on Images with Pillow and Python
Pillow supports drawing text on your images in addition to shapes. Pillow uses its own font file format to store bitmap fonts, limited to 256 characters. Pillow also supports TrueType and OpenType...
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PySimpleGUI: Drawing Text on Images with a Python GUI
The Pillow package lets you draw text on images using Python. This includes using TrueType and OpenType fonts. You have a lot of flexibility when adding this text to your images. If you’d like to know...
View ArticlePyDev of the Week: Bojan Miletic
This week we welcome Bojan Miletic as our PyDev of the Week! Bojan is an entrepreneur and given talks at EuroPython on Django testing. If you’d like to learn more about Bojan, you can connect with him...
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PyDev of the Week: Aly Sivji
This week we welcome Aly Sivji (@CaiusSivjus) as our PyDev of the Week. Aly is an organizer for the Chicago Python Users Group (ChiPy), one of the largest Python groups around. If you’d like to see...
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Creating an Image Viewer with PySimpleGUI
PySimpleGUI makes creating applications easy. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use PySimpleGUI to create a simple Image Viewer. You will be using the regular version of PySimpleGUI, which wraps...
View ArticleAn Intro to Python’s Built-in Functions
Built-ins are a somewhat overlooked part of Python. You use them every day, but there are a number of them that get overlooked or just aren’t used to their full potential. This article won’t be...
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Pillow: Image Processing with Python Available for Pre-order
Pillow: Image Processing with Python is my latest book on Python. It is now available for pre-order. What that means is that you can purchase an early version of the book and get all the updates to it...
View ArticlePyDev of the Week: Mariano Anaya
This week we welcome Mariano Anaya (@rmarianoa) as our PyDev of the Week. Mariano is the author of Clean Code in Python and has been a speaker at EuroPython. You can see what he’s been working on over...
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Drawing Shapes on Images with Python and Pillow
Pillow provides a drawing module called ImageDraw that you can use to create simple 2D graphics on your Image objects. According to Pillow’s documentation, “you can use this module to create new...
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