February 19, 2018 by
Mike This week we welcome Juan Luis Cano (@astrojuanlu) as our PyDev of the Week! He is the chair of the Python Spain non-profit and the author of the poliastro project. If you can read Spanish, then you might want to check out his website. Otherwise you can definitely take a look at his Github profile […]
February 13, 2018 by
Mike I thought it would be fun to create a sample of the book so you can get an idea of what the book will be like. So I created a PDF that contains the first 3 chapters of the book for you. Download Sample Note that the format of this sample is not quite right […]
February 12, 2018 by
Mike I really like coming up with fun covers for my books. I also like to find new artists for each book so that they all end up looking unique. I do plan to re-use one or two artists at some point though. Anyway, for the ReportLab book I happened to stumble across Therese Larsson's website and I really […]
February 12, 2018 by
Mike This week we welcome Emily Morehouse-Valcarcel (@emilyemorehouse) as our PyDev of the Week. Emily is the co-founder and Director of Engineering of Cuttlesoft. She recently spoke at PyCascades about Python's AST. You can get a feel for what projects she is interested in over on her Github profile. Let's take a few moments to get […]
I am happy to announce another book that I have been working on called Python Interviews from Packt Publishing. Here is the blurb from their website: Python Interviews contains a series of one-to-one interviews between Mike Driscoll and a variety of leading figures in the Python community. Mike is a life-long member of the Python […]
The ReportLab toolkit provides multiple ways for you to generate text on your PDFs. The most popular examples that I have seen are using canvas methods or using PLATYPUS. The canvas method that you will likely see the most is drawString. Here is an example: from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas c = canvas.Canvas("hello.pdf") c.drawString(100, 100, "Welcome […]
