February 15, 2021 by
Mike 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 see what Aly is up to, you can visit his blog or check out his Github profile. You can also […]
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 with him on LinkedIn. Let's spend some time getting to know him better! Can you tell us a little about […]
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 know more, you should check out Drawing Text on Images with Pillow and Python. Note: The code and fonts used […]
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 as other font formats supported by the FreeType library. In this chapter, you will learn about the following: Drawing Text […]
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 Python. If you'd like to know more about what Carl is up to, you can check out his Github profile. […]
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 virtual environment has its own set of installed packages and, depending on the virtual environment and how it's set up, […]
