Malware was recently discovered on the Python Packaging Index that targets Windows users. The package was called colourama and if it had been installed, would end up installing malware on your PC. It is basically hoping that you will misspell the popular colorama pacakge. You can read more about the malware on Medium where it […]
In this screencast, you will learn the basics of using the popular lxml (https://lxml.de/) package for parsing XML. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
This week we welcome Anthony Sottile (@codewithanthony) as our PyDev of the Week! Anthony is one of the maintainers for the tox and pytest packages. He is also on the "deadsnakes" PPA team, which backports Python for certain EOL Linux distros. While you can discover a little about Anthony on his website, you will probably […]
In this episode you will learn how to use the configobj package. This is a 3rd party package that I think is better and easier to use than Python's built-in configparser module. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub Related Reading A Brief ConfigObj […]
What are Jupyter widgets? A widget is an "eventful python object" that in the case of Jupyter Notebook, resides in the browser and is a user interface element, such as a slider or textbox. Jupyter supports a fairly wide array of widgets including the following: Numeric Boolean Selection String Image Button Output Animation Date picker […]
The Jupyter Notebook has a feature known as widgets. If you have ever created a desktop user interface, you may already know and understand the concept of widgets. They are basically the controls that make up the user interface. In your Jupyter Notebook you can create sliders, buttons, text boxes and much more. We will […]
