The Real Python Podcast – Episode #116: Exploring Functional Programming in Python With Bruce Eckel

Would you like to explore the functional programming side of Python? What are the advantages of this approach, and what tools are built into the language? This week on the show, author Bruce Eckel talks about functional programming in Python. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered...

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Python Stacks, Queues, and Priority Queues in Practice

Queues are the backbone of numerous algorithms found in games, artificial intelligence, satellite navigation, and task scheduling. They’re among the top abstract data types that computer science students learn early in their education. At the same time, software engineers often leverage higher-level message queues to achieve better scalability of a...

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Building a Site Connectivity Checker

Building a site connectivity checker in Python is an interesting project to level up your skills. With this project, you’ll integrate knowledge related to handling HTTP requests, creating command-line interfaces (CLI), and organizing your application’s code using common Python project layout practices. By building this project, you’ll learn how Python’s...

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Build a Tic-Tac-Toe Game With Python and Tkinter

Playing computer games is a great way to unwind or challenge yourself. Some people even do it professionally. It’s also fun and educational to build your own computer games. In this tutorial, you’ll build a classic tic-tac-toe game using Python and Tkinter. With this project, you’ll go through the thought processes required for creating your own game....

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The Real Python Podcast – Episode #115: Digging Into PyScript & Preventing or Handling Python Errors

Have you heard about PyScript? The brand-new framework has the community excited about building interactive Python applications that run entirely within the user's browser. Would you like to dig into the details beyond the "Hello World" examples? This week on the show, Christopher Trudeau is here, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles...

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Python mmap: Doing File I/O With Memory Mapping

The Zen of Python has a lot of wisdom to offer. One especially useful idea is that “There should be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to do it.” Yet there are multiple ways to do most things in Python, and often for good reason. For example, there are multiple ways to read a file in Python, including the rarely used mmap module. Python’s mmap...

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How Can You Emulate Do-While Loops in Python?

If you came to Python from a language like C, C++, Java, or JavaScript, then you may be missing their do-while loop construct. A do-while loop is a common control flow statement that executes its code block at least once, regardless of whether the loop condition is true or false. This behavior relies on the fact that the loop condition is evaluated...

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The Real Python Podcast – Episode #114: Getting Started in Python Cybersecurity and Forensics

Are you interested in a career in security using Python? Would you like to stay ahead of potential vulnerabilities in your Python applications? This week on the show, James Pleger talks about Python information security, incident response, and forensics. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python...

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Build Your Python Project Documentation With MkDocs

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to quickly build documentation for a Python package using MkDocs and mkdocstrings. These tools allow you to generate nice-looking and modern documentation from Markdown files and your code’s docstrings. Maintaining auto-generated documentation means less effort because you’re linking information between your code...

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Combining Data in pandas With concat() and merge()

The Series and DataFrame objects in pandas are powerful tools for exploring and analyzing data. Part of their power comes from a multifaceted approach to combining separate datasets. With pandas, you can merge and concatenate your datasets, allowing you to unify and better understand your data as you analyze it. In this video course, you’ll learn...

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