November 21, 2016 by
Mike This week we welcome David Mertz (@mertz_david) as our PyDev of the Week! David is the author of Text Processing in Python as well as many interesting articles about Python on IBM developerWorks. I'm pretty sure I read some of those articles when I was first learning Python. You can check out a pretty intensive […]
November 14, 2016 by
Mike This week we welcome Kirby Urner (@thekirbster) as our PyDev of the Week. Kirby teaches Python for the O’Reilly School of Technology. He also speaks at PyCon USA from time to time. You might also want to check out his website to learn more about his passions. Let's take a few moments to get to […]
Python 3.5 added some new syntax that allows developers to create asynchronous applications and packages easier. One such package is aiohttp which is an HTTP client/server for asyncio. Basically it allows you to write asynchronous clients and servers. The aiohttp package also supports Server WebSockets and Client WebSockets. You can install aiohttp using pip: pip […]
Leanpub is featuring my second book on their homepage today: You can get the book for 50% off until tomorrow by using the following link: http://leanpub.com/python201/c/50percent Python 201 covers the following topics: Part I - Intermediate Modules Chapter 1 - The argparse module Chapter 2 - The collections module Chapter 3 - The contextlib module […]
Today I am releasing my first book, Python 101, for free for 48 hours. Python 101 was written as an introduction to the Python programming language. While it is intended for beginners, some have claimed that they needed more hand-holding than this book provided for them. So I currently recommend it as an introductory and […]
This week we welcome Al Sweigart as our PyDev of the Week. Al is the author of the PyAutoGUI and Pyperclip packages. He is also the author of several Python books such as: Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python Making Games with Python & Pygame […]
