The Real Python Podcast – Episode #94: Designing for Users and Building a Social Network With Django

Are you looking for a project to practice your Django skills? Designing the fundamental interactions of a social network is an instructive way to explore models and relationships while learning advanced Django skills. This week on the show, we talk with previous guest Martin Breuss about his new four-part series, "Build a Social Network With Django"....

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Build a Dice-Rolling Application With Python

Building small projects, like a text-based user interface (TUI) dice-rolling application, will help you level up your Python programming skills. You’ll learn how to gather and validate the user’s input, import code from modules and packages, write functions, use for loops and conditionals, and neatly display output by using strings and the print() function....

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Starting With Python IDLE

If you’ve recently downloaded Python onto your computer, then you may have noticed a new program on your machine called IDLE. You might be wondering, “What is this program doing on my computer? I didn’t download that!” While you may not have downloaded this program on your own, IDLE comes bundled with every Python installation. It’s there to help you...

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Python News: What's New From December 2021?

In December 2021, the fourth Python steering council was elected, as usual with a mix of new and returning members. Python’s release-cycle circle of life kept spinning, with new iterations of both Python 3.10 and the upcoming Python 3.11 released. At the same time, the popular Python 3.6 reached end-of-life and will no longer be supported. Amid this...

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The Real Python Podcast – Episode #93: Launching Python, Virtual Environments, and Locking Dependencies With Brett Cannon

Would you like a simple command to launch your Python programs using the newest version of the language installed on your machine? This week on the show, we continue our conversation with Brett Cannon. Brett discusses his project, the Python Launcher for Unix. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet...

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Build and Submit HTML Forms With Django – Part 4

In this four-part tutorial series, you’re building a social network with Django that you can showcase in your portfolio. This project is strengthening your understanding of relationships between Django models and showing you how to use forms so that users can interact with your app and with each other. You’re also making your site look good by using...

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Working With Pipenv

Managing multiple Python projects with their own third-party packages can get complicated. It is best practice to use a virtual environment to sandbox the requirements for each of your projects. Enter pipenv, the official recommended package management tool for Python. It handles both installation and virtual environments to help you manage your Python...

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Build and Handle POST Requests in Django – Part 3

In this four-part tutorial series, you’re building a social network with Django that you can showcase in your portfolio. This project is strengthening and demonstrating your understanding of relationships between Django models and showing you how to use forms so that users can interact with your app and with each other. You’re also making your site...

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The Real Python Podcast – Episode #92: Continuing to Unravel Python's Syntatic Sugar With Brett Cannon

A year ago, we had Brett Cannon on the show to discuss his blog series about unravelling Python's syntactic sugar. Brett has written 15 more entries in the series, and he returns to the show this week to continue our conversation. We dive into unravelling 'async' and 'await' statements and their relationship with Python's generators. ...

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Build a Django Front End With Bulma – Part 2

In this four-part tutorial series, you’re building a social network with Django that you can showcase in your portfolio. This project will strengthen your understanding of relationships between Django models and show you how to use forms so that users can interact with your app and with each other. You’ll also make your Django front end look good by...

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