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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 Read more…
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PyDev 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 Read more…
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PyCharm 2021.1 EAP 2: Auto-import for DS Libraries, Support for JSON Lines, and More
The second release of the PyCharm 2021.1 EAP introduces new features for working with remote hosts via SSH, improved support for Python data science libraries, some nice UI changes, and helpful new features for web Read more…
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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 Read more…
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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 fonts as well Read more…
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PyDev 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 Read more…
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The Transition to Apple Silicon
In June of last year, Apple announced that the Mac would transition to Apple’s own chips, called Apple Silicon. Here at PyCharm, this would mean major changes to the way we build our software. A Read more…
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PyCharm 2021.1 EAP starts now!
We are starting our new Early Access Program (EAP) for PyCharm 2021.1. You can now try the pre-release build of the upcoming v2021.1. It delivers enhanced support for Cython as well as UI and usability Read more…
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PyCharm 2020.3.3 Is Available
The final bug-fix release for PyCharm 2020.3 is out. You can upgrade to v2020.3.3 with the Toolbox App, or right from the IDE, or by using snap if you are an Ubuntu user. It is Read more…
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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 system Python installation. Each Read more…