The Real Python Podcast – Episode #70: What Can You Do With Python and Counting Objects Using "Counter"

How is Python being used today, and what can you do with the language? Do you want to develop software, dive into data science and math, automate parts of your job and digital life, or work with electronics? This week on the show, David Amos is back, and he's brought another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects. [ Improve...

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Your First Steps With Django: Set Up a Django Project

Before you can start to build the individual functionality of a new Django web application, you always need to complete a couple of setup steps. This tutorial gives you a reference for the necessary steps to set up a Django project. The tutorial focuses on the initial steps you’ll need to take to start a new web application. To complete it, you’ll...

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Speech Recognition With Python

Have you ever wondered how to add speech recognition to your Python project? It’s more straightforward than you might think. In this course, you’ll find out how. In this course, you’ll learn: How speech recognition works What speech recognition packages are available on PyPI How to install and use the SpeechRecognition package—a full-featured...

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Python Community Interview With Dustin Ingram

Today I’m joined by Dustin Ingram, a developer advocate at Google focused on supporting the Python community on Google Cloud. He is also a director of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and a maintainer of PyPI. In this interview, we discuss how Google’s use of Python might differ from your own, what it takes to maintain PyPI, his goals as a PSF director,...

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The Real Python Podcast – Episode #69: Planning a Faster Future at the Python Language Summit

Do you wonder what the future may hold for the Python language? Are there speed improvements coming soon? What if you could be in the room while the core developers discuss Python's future? This week on the show, we have Joanna Jablonski, who was invited to the Python Language Summit 2021 as a journalist to summarize and document the event. ...

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Use FastAPI to Build Web APIs

Creating APIs, or application programming interfaces, is an important part of making your software accessible to a broad range of users. In this tutorial, you will learn the main concepts of FastAPI and how to use it to quickly create web APIs that implement best practices by default. By the end of it, you will be able to start creating production-ready...

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The Square Root Function in Python

Are you trying to solve a quadratic equation? Maybe you need to calculate the length of one side of a right triangle. You can use the math module’s sqrt() method for determining the square root of a number. This course covers the use of math.sqrt() as well as related methods. In this course, you’ll learn: About square roots and related mathematical...

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Python News: What's New From June 2021?

If you want to get up to speed on what happened in the world of Python in June 2021, then you’ve come to the right place to get your news! June was a month of change. Ewa Jodlowska, the Executive Director of the Python Software Foundation (PSF), announced her departure after serving for ten years, and the PSF Board of Directors gained three new directors....

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The Real Python Podcast – Episode #68: Exploring the functools Module and Complex Numbers in Python

Are you ready to expand your Python knowledge into the intermediate to advanced territory? What tools are awaiting your discovery inside Python's functools module? This week on the show, David Amos is back, and he's brought another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get...

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Defining and Calling Python Functions

A function is a self-contained block of code that encapsulates a specific task or related group of tasks. This course will show you how to define your own Python function. You’ll learn when to divide your program into separate user-defined functions and what tools you’ll need to do this. You’ll also learn the various ways to pass data into a function...

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