ImageMagick is an open-source tool that you can use to create, edit, compose, or convert digital images. It supports over 200 image formats. According to its website, ImageMagick can resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear, and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses, and Bézier curves. For […]
This week we welcome Adam Hopkins (@AdmHpkns) as our PyDev of the Week! Adam is a core developer on Sanic, a Python server / web framework. You can see what Adam has been up to over on GitHub. Let's spend some time getting to know Adam better! Can you tell us a little about yourself […]
Python can be used to read in the common MP4 video format and convert it to an animated GIF. Of course, you can use a pre-built piece of software if you'd rather, but it's fun (and a good learning experience) to do it yourself. In this tutorial, you will learn the following: How to extract […]
This week we welcome Benjy Weinberger (@benjy) as our PyDev of the Week! Benjy works on the Pants build system. He is also the co-founder of Toolchain. You can catch up with Benjy over on GitHub. Let's take a few moments to get to know Benjy! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, […]
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In this video tutorial, you will learn how exception handling works in Python. Specifically, you will learn the following: Common exceptions Handling exceptions Raising exceptions Examining exception objects Using the finally statement Using the else statement If you prefer to read a tutorial, you might be interested in this: Python 101 - Exception Handling Want […]
