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There’s still time to join Weekly Python Exercise
Another cohort of Weekly Python Exercise starts next week! This time, it’s course A2 — for beginners, focusing on functions and modules. Registration closes on Friday. So if you want to level up your Python skills, you should check out, and register with, Weekly Python Exercise sooner rather than later. This cohort of WPE is…
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My interview on the “Talk Python” podcast
I was delighted to appear on the popular “Talk Python to Me” podcast, run by Michael Kennedy. In the podcast, I talk about teaching, learning, and teaching Python to companies. If you’re interested in how to learn better or teach better, then I think you’ll enjoy this episode! The episode is here: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/210/making-the-most-out-of-in-person-training
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Making your Python decorators even better, with functool.wraps
The good news: I gave a talk on Friday morning, at PyCon 2019, called “Practical decorators.” The better news: It was a huge crowd, and people have responded very warmly to the talk. Thanks to everyone at PyCon who came to talk to me about it! However: Several people, at the talk and afterwards, asked…
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Get code + slides from my “Practical Decorators” talk from Euro Python / PyCon 2019
I presented my “Practical Decorators” talk twice this year — once at PyCon 2019 in Cleveland, and again at EuroPython 2019 in Basel. Here is the video of my presentation in Cleveland: If you want to get the PDF of my slides, as well as the Python code that I showed, then just enter your…
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Announcing: Weekly Python Exercise A2 — functions and modules for Python beginners
I spend just about every day teaching Python to people at companies around the world. I’m always amazed to see just how popular Python is, and how many people are using it — and in how many ways they are using it. But I’m also amazed by how many people are just “getting by” with…
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Improve your Python skills with my new book: Python Workout
A few years ago, I noticed that many of the participants in my corporate Python courses were asking the same question: How can I get additional practice? And I have to say, this question made a lot of sense. After all, you can only absorb so much information from a course, regardless of how good…
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Announcing: My new NumPy course is live!
Guess what? Python is the #1 language for data science. I know, it doesn’t seem like this should be true. Python is a great language, and easy to learn, but it’s not the most efficient language, either in execution speed or in its memory usage. That’s where NumPy comes in: NumPy lets you have the…
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Python’s “else” clause for loops
Let’s say that we have a list of tuples, with each tuple containing some numbers. For example: >>> mylist = [(3,5), (2,4,6,8), (4,10, 17), (15, 14, 11), (3,3,2)] I want to write a program that asks the user to enter a number. If one of the tuples adds up to the user’s input, we’ll print…
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Seven ways to improve your team’s Python
If you’re a manager, then you’re always trying to find ways that’ll help your team do more in less time. That’s why you use Python — because it makes your developers more productive. They can spend more time creating new features, and less time debugging or maintaining existing code. It’s no surprise that so many…
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Registration for Weekly Python Exercise ends in 24 hours
Registration for Weekly Python Exercise B1 (i.e., advanced level, part 1) closes in about 24 hours. Don’t be left out! WPE gives you exercises in all sorts of advanced Python topics: Data structures, functions, object-oriented programming, comprehensions, generators, and decorators. These exercises model real-world problems, so that when you encounter problems at your job, you’ll…