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Getting Started with ReportLab’s Canvas
ReportLab is a very powerful library. With a little effort, you can make pretty much any layout that you can think of. I have used it to replicate many complex page layouts over the years. Read more…
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PyCharm 2021.2.2 Is Out!
Download PyCharm 2021.2.2 The second minor release of PyCharm 2021.2 contains multiple bug fixes. cProfile call graph never loads. [PY-49917] Requirements.txt blank file is being created. [PY-41953] WSL: Can not detect any SDK in WSL Read more…
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Python 101 – How to Work with Images
The Python Imaging Library (PIL) is a 3rd party Python package that adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. It allows you to process photos and do many common image file manipulations. The current Read more…
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PyDev of the Week: Nikita Sobolev
This week we welcome Nikita Sobolev (@sobolevn) as our PyDev of the Week! Nikita is the founder of wemake.services. Nikita also writes a technical blog that you should check out. You can also see what Read more…
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Python 101 – Documenting Your Code
Documenting your code early on is quite a bit more important than most new developers realize. Documentation in software development refers to the idea of giving your variables, functions and other identifiers descriptive names. It Read more…
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Python 3.10 – Simplifies Unions in Type Annotations
Python 3.10 has several new typing features. They are given in detail here: PEP 604, Allow writing union types as X | Y PEP 613, Explicit Type Aliases PEP 612, Parameter Specification Variables The focus Read more…
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Creating a Simple Wizard with wxPython (Video)
In this video tutorial, you will learn how to create a wizard with the wxPython GUI toolkit: Related tutorials wxPython: How to Disable a Wizard’s Next Button wxPython: How to Create a Generic Wizard wxPython: Read more…
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Webinar recap: Building Search Functionality With Python, Flask, and Elasticsearch
In this webinar, Aravind covered the following topics step by step in a Github branch. Building a basic Python Flask application. (1-basic-flask-app) TailwindCSS to build a beautiful search experience (2-add-tailwindcss) Working with elasticsearch-py and elasticsearch-dsl Read more…
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Webinar: “A Look At — and Inside — Textual” with Will McGugan
Want a UI for your application? Python has had GUI choices for decades. But what if your UI is in a terminal? And not just a command-line interface, but a full-screen application with a text Read more…
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Faking Data with the Faker Package
If you are a software developer or engineer, then you know it can be really helpful to have sample data. The data doesn’t have to be real data either. Instead, the data can be fake. Read more…