PyQt Layouts: Create Professional-Looking GUI Applications

PyQt’s layout managers provide a user-friendly and productive way of arranging graphical components, or widgets, on a GUI. Laying out widgets properly will make your GUI applications look polished and professional. Learning to do so efficiently and effectively is a fundamental skill for you to get up and running with GUI application development using...

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Formatting Python Strings

In this course, you’ll see two items to add to your Python string formatting toolkit. You’ll learn about Python’s string format method and the formatted string literal, or f-string. You’ll learn about these formatting techniques in detail and add them to your Python string formatting toolkit. In this course, you’ll learn about: The string .format()...

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Split Your Dataset With scikit-learn's train_test_split()

One of the key aspects of supervised machine learning is model evaluation and validation. When you evaluate the predictive performance of your model, it’s essential that the process be unbiased. Using train_test_split() from the data science library scikit-learn, you can split your dataset into subsets that minimize the potential for bias in your evaluation...

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The Real Python Podcast – Episode #36: Sentiment Analysis, Fourier Transforms, and More Python Data Science

Are you interested in learning more about Natural Language Processing? Have you heard of sentiment analysis? This week on the show, Kyle Stratis returns to talk about his new article titled, Use Sentiment Analysis With Python to Classify Movie Reviews. David Amos is also here, and all of us cover another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects....

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Python enumerate(): Simplify Looping With Counters

In Python, a for loop is usually written as a loop over an iterable object. This means you don’t need a counting variable to access items in the iterable. Sometimes, though, you do want to have a variable that changes on each loop iteration. Rather than creating and incrementing a variable yourself, you can use Python’s enumerate() to get a counter...

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Regular Expressions and Building Regexes in Python

In this course, you’ll explore regular expressions, also known as regexes, in Python. A regex is a special sequence of characters that defines a pattern for complex string-matching functionality. String matching like this is a common task in programming, and you can get a lot done with string operators and built-in methods. At times, though, you may...

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Python and PyQt: Creating Menus, Toolbars, and Status Bars

When it comes to developing graphical user interface (GUI) applications with Python and PyQt, some of the most useful and versatile graphical elements that you’ll ever use are menus, toolbars, and status bars. Menus and toolbars can make your applications look polished and professional, presenting users with an accessible set of options, while status...

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The Real Python Podcast – Episode #35: Security and Authorization in Your Python Web Applications

So you built a web application in Python. Now how are you going to authorize users? Security goes beyond authentication. Who gets to do what, where, and when? This week on the show, we have Sam Scott, chief technology officer from Oso. Oso is an open-source policy engine for authorization that you embed in your application. [ Improve...

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PyPy: Faster Python With Minimal Effort

Python is one of the most popular programming languages among developers, but it has certain limitations. For example, depending on the application, it can be up to 100 times as slow as some lower-level languages. That’s why many companies rewrite their applications in another language once Python’s speed becomes a bottleneck for users. But what if...

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Handling Missing Keys With the Python defaultdict Type

The Python defaultdict type behaves almost exactly like a regular Python dictionary, but if you try to access or modify a missing key, then defaultdict will automatically create the key and generate a default value for it. This makes defaultdict a valuable option for handling missing keys in dictionaries. In this course, you’ll learn: How to...

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