PyCharm: The State of Python 2024
This is a guest post from Michael Kennedy, the founder of Talk Python and a PSF Fellow.Hey there. I’m Michael Kennedy, the founder of Talk Python and a Python Software Foundation (PSF) Fellow. I’m...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Checking Python Code with GitHub Actions
When you are working on your personal or work projects in Python, you usually want to have a way to enforce code standards. You can use tools like Flake8, PyLint or Ruff to lint your code. You might...
View ArticleReal Python: Documenting Python Projects With Sphinx and Read the Docs
Sphinx is a document generation tool that’s become the de facto standard for Python projects. It uses the reStructuredText (RST) markup language to define document structure and styling, and it can...
View ArticlePyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #659 (Dec. 10, 2024)
#659 – DECEMBER 10, 2024View in Browser »Handling or Preventing Errors in Python: LBYL vs EAFP In this video course, you’ll learn about two popular coding styles in Python: look before you leap (LBYL)...
View ArticleDjango Weblog: Django 6.x Steering Council Candidates
Thank you to the 12 individuals who have chosen to stand for election. This page contains their candidate statements submitted as part of the Django 6.x Steering Council elections.To our departing...
View ArticleReal Python: Python Set Comprehensions: How and When to Use Them
Python set comprehensions provide a concise way to create and manipulate sets in your code. They generate sets with a clean syntax, making your code more readable and Pythonic. With set comprehensions,...
View ArticlePython Engineering at Microsoft: Python in Visual Studio Code – December 2024...
We’re excited to announce the December 2024 release of the Python, Pylance and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code!This release includes the following announcements:Docstring generation features...
View ArticlePaolo Melchiorre: My first DSF board meeting
Thoughts and insights aboutr my first meeting as a Django Software Foundation board member.
View ArticlePyCharm: Introduction to Sentiment Analysis in Python
Sentiment analysis is one of the most popular ways to analyze text. It allows us to see at a glance how people are feeling across a wide range of areas and has useful applications in fields like...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #488: Multimodal data with LanceDB
LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open source database for AI. It's used by well-known companies such as Midjourney and Character.ai. We have Chang She, the CEO and cofounder of LanceDB on to give us a...
View ArticleMariatta: Generating (and Sending) Conference Certificates Using Python
PyLadiesCon Certificate of AttendanceNot sure how common is this practice of giving out certificates to conference attendees. I’ve been attending mostly Python-related conferences in North America, and...
View ArticleSpyder IDE: Spyder 6 under the hood: Editor migration, remote dev QA, test...
Beyond the headline features, there's a lot more new and improved under the hood in Spyder 6. Daniel Althviz, Spyder's release manager and co-maintainer, was at the forefront of much of it, and we're...
View ArticleMatt Layman: UV and Ruff: Next-gen Python Tooling
Dive into the dynamic duo of modern Python development – UV and Ruff!
View ArticleMatt Layman: 1Password and DigitalOcean Droplet - Building SaaS #208
In this episode, I continued a migration of my JourneyInbox app from Heroku to DigitalOcean. We configured the secrets using 1Password and created the droplet that will host the app.
View ArticleKushal Das: Open Source talk at KTH computer science students organization
Last Tuesday, during lunch hours I had a talk at KTH computer science students' organization. The topic was Open Source and career. My main goal was tell the attendees that contribution size does not...
View ArticleReal Python: The Walrus Operator: Python's Assignment Expressions
Python’s walrus operator (:=) allows you to assign values to variables as part of an expression. It can simplify your code by combining assignment and evaluation in a single statement. You use it to...
View ArticleReal Python: Sorting a Python Dictionary: Values, Keys, and More
Sorting a Python dictionary involves organizing its key-value pairs in a specific order. To sort a Python dictionary by its keys, use the sorted() function combined with .items(). This approach returns...
View ArticleReal Python: Primer on Python Decorators
Python decorators allow you to modify or extend the behavior of functions and methods without changing their actual code. When you use a Python decorator, you wrap a function with another function,...
View ArticleReal Python: YAML: The Missing Battery in Python
YAML is a portable and widely used data serialization format. Unlike the more compact JSON or verbose XML formats, YAML emphasizes human readability with block indentation, which should be familiar to...
View ArticleReal Python: Build Command-Line Interfaces With Python's argparse
When building Python command-line interfaces (CLI), Python’s argparse module offers a comprehensive solution. You can use argparse to create user-friendly command-line interfaces that parse arguments...
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