I am currently reading through Mark Summerfield's book on PyQt, Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt and thought it would be fun to take some of the example applications in it and convert them to PySide. So I'll be creating a series of articles where I'll show the original PyQt examples from the book […]
Last week, Matt Harrison sent me a copy of his latest Python eBook entitled Treading on Python Vol 2: Intermediate Python. I was intrigued since I rarely get to read Intermediate level Python books. In fact, I would say that some of the stuff that the author talks about goes into the advanced level. Anyway, […]
A couple months ago, I was contacted by John Rowland. He is the author of the brand new eBook Learn Python Quickly and he was contacting me about using one of my blog articles as the basis for one of his examples in his book. This one to be exact. Anyway, I told him I […]
The Reportlab library is a great way to generate PDFs in Python. Recently, I noticed that it has the ability to do barcodes. I had heard about it being able to generate QR codes, but I hadn't really dug under the covers to see what else it could do. In this tutorial, we'll take a […]
Fabio Zadrozny, the primary developer behind PyDev has started a campaign on Indiegogo to fund continuing development of PyDev. In case you're new to Python development, PyDev is a plugin for Eclipse that provides a nice Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Python, Jython and IronPython in the Eclipse environment. You can read about why Fabio […]
The Python.org website is finally getting a much needed update and at PyCon 2013, they announced that you can now check out a preview of what it's going to look like here: http://preview.python.org/ There's a call for beta testers at the bottom of the website, so if you want to help Python, here's a really […]
