PyCon 2018 in Cleveland, Ohio kicked off their first conference day with an introduction from one of Cleveland's natives, Ernest W. Durbin III. Then we moved on to the keynote of the morning which was given by Dan Callahan from Mozilla. He talked about tooling and how Python currently doesn't have a big presence on […]
Editor's note: This week we have a guest post from Alex, the CEO of CheckIO In life we always have options whether we know about them or not. It's the same with coding. There is a fair amount of different ways in which we can approach a particular task. We might not consider those ways, […]
This week we welcome Elizabeth Sander as our PyDev of the Week! Elizabeth is a data scientist at Civis Analytics. She has her own website where you can learn a lot of interesting background information about her. If you are more interested in her open source projects, then her Github profile may be what you […]
There are many times where you will want to extract data from a PDF and export it in a different format using Python. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of Python packages that do the extraction part very well. In this chapter, we will look at a variety of different packages that you can use to […]
This week we welcome John Reese (@n7cmdr) as our PyDev of the Week. John works for Facebook and has been using Python for many years. He has a blog, but it hasn't been updated in a while. If you'd like to see what he's up to in open source land, then check out his Github […]
This week we welcome Stacy Morse (@geekgirlbeta) as our PyDev of the Week! Stacy loves Python and has been writing about it on her blog as well as giving talks at various user groups and conferences. You can catch her at PyCon 2018 in Ohio this year where she will be talking about code reviews. […]