February 17, 2020 by
Mike I am excited to announce that my newest book, Python 101, 2nd Edition is launching on Kickstarter today! Python 101 holds a special place in my heart as it was the very first book I ever wrote. Frankly, I don't think I would have even written a book if it weren't for the readers of […]
February 17, 2020 by
Mike This week we welcome Martin Fitzpatrick (@mfitzp) as our PyDev of the Week! Martin is the author of "Create Simple GUI Applications with Python and Qt 5" and the creator of the LearnPyQt website. You can also check out his personal site or see what he's up to by visiting his Github profile. Let's spend […]
February 11, 2020 by
Mike The National Security Agency (NSA) recently released a free Python programming course for beginners after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request according to ZDNet. There is almost 400 pages of material that has been uploaded to Digital Oceans Spaces by Chris Swenson, the software developer who made the original request. You can access the […]
February 10, 2020 by
Mike This week we welcome Paul Sokolovsky as our PyDev of the Week! Paul is the creator of Pycopy, which is described as "a minimalist and memory-efficient Python implementation for constrained systems, microcontrollers, and just everything". You can check out more of his contributions to open source on Github. Let's take a few moments to get […]
Python has many modules in its standard library. One that is often overlooked is imghdr which lets you identify what image type that is contained in a file, byte stream or path-like object. The imghdr can recognize the following image types: rgb gif pbm pgm ppm tiff rast xbm jpeg / jpg bmp png webp […]
This week we welcome Alessia Marcolini (@viperale) as our PyDev of the Week! Alessia is a Python blogger and speaker. You can check out some of her work over on Medium. You can also see some of her coding skills on Github. Let's spend a few moments getting to know her better! Can you tell […]
