Category: Python
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Free one-hour Webinar about Python’s magic methods on May 6th
I’ll be giving another free one-hour Webinar about Python — this time, about the magic methods that Python offers developers who want to change the ways in which their objects
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Is it hashable? Fun and games with hashing in Python
One of the basic data types that Python developers learn to use, and to appreciate, is the dictionary, or “dict.” This is the Python term for what other languages call
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Free Webinar in object-oriented Python on April 1st, 2015
Join me for an hour-long free Webinar about object-oriented Python on April 1st, 2015. I’ll discuss how to use and create classes in Python, how attributes form the core of
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A quick introduction to implementing Python iterators
When you put a piece of Python data into a “for” loop, the loop doesn’t execute on the data itself. Rather, it executes on the data’s “iterator.” An iterator is
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If you don’t use “with”, when does Python close files? The answer is: It depends.
One of the first things that Python programmers learn is that you can easily read through the contents of an open file by iterating over it: f = open(‘/etc/passwd’) for
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All 50 exercises in “Practice Makes Python” are complete! (Plus, a sample exercise about taxes in Freedonia)
The latest draft of “Practice Makes Python,” my ebook intended to sharpen your Python programming skills, is now out. This draft includes all 50 exercises, solutions, and explanations that I
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“Practice Makes Python” is now available for early-bird purchase
My first ebook, “Practice Makes Python” — containing 50 exercises that will help to sharpen your Python skills — is now available for early-bird purchase! The book is already about 130 pages (and
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In Python, it’s all about the attributes
Newcomers to Python are often amazed to discover how easily we can create new classes. For example: class Foo(object): pass is a perfectly valid (if boring) class. We can even
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Announcing: A free Webinar, and two online courses (functional Python and OO Python)
It’s time again for me to offer a free Webinar, as well as two online courses: I’m repeating my hour-long free Webinar about functional programming in Python on Wednesday, October
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Sorting lists of dicts — an exercise from “Practice Makes Python”
My ebook, Practice Makes Python, will go on pre-sale one week from today. The book is a collection of 50 exercises that I have used and refined when training people