This week we welcome Ezio Melotti as our PyDev of the Week! Ezio is a core developer of the Python language. You can get an idea of what he's been up to via his bitbucket page. Let's take a few moments to get to know him! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, […]
Python's collections module has another great subclass of dict known as OrderedDict. As the name implies, this dictionary keeps track of the order of the keys as they are added. If you create a regular dict, you will note that it is an unordered data collection: >>> d = {'banana': 3, 'apple':4, 'pear': 1, 'orange': […]
We're halfway through the Kickstarter campaign for my new book, Python 201 and we're a little over halfway to my first stretch goal. If you know anyone who would like to add to their Python skills, be sure to post a link to the campaign to your social website(s) of choice. I also added a […]
The collections module has another handy tool called defaultdict. The defaultdict is a subclass of Python's dict that accepts a default_factory as its primary argument. The default_factory is usually a Python type, such as int or list, but you can also use a function or a lambda too. Let's start by creating a regular Python […]
Over the weekend, I spent some time rearranging ideas for my latest book such that I have have four specific sections of the book. Here they are: Part I - Intermediate Modules Chapter 1 - The argparse module Chapter 2 - The collections module Chapter 3 - The contextlib module (Context Managers) Chapter 4 - […]
This week we welcome Massimo DiPierro (@mdipierro) as our PyDev of the Week! Massimo is the inventor and lead developer of web2py, but he's also contributed to lots of other projects which you can see on his github profile. He is also the author of the following books: Annotated Algorithms in Python: with Applications in […]
