This article includes tips on how to clean up messy currency data in pandas so that you may convert the data to numeric formats for further analysis.

Al Sweigart is an accomplished developer, conference speaker, teacher, and origamist. But some may know him best for his numerous Python programming books, such as Automate the Boring Stuff with Python.

Keras and TensorFlow 2.0 provide you with three methods to implement your own neural network architectures:, Sequential API, Functional API, and Model subclassing. Inside of this tutorial you’ll learn how to utilize each of these methods, including how to…

In this course, you'll look at Python type checking. Traditionally, types have been handled by the Python interpreter in a flexible but implicit way. Recent versions of Python allow you to specify explicit type hints that can be used by different tools to…

Though Python isn’t able to parallelize CPU-bound computation without extra effort (see Item 64: “Consider concurrent.futures for True Parallelism”), it is able to support high-throughput, parallel I/O in a variety of ways (see Item 53: “Use Threads for Blocking…

Python 3.9 is now available–but should you switch to it immediately? And if not now, when? The short answer is, no, you probably don’t want to switch immediately; quite possibly you can’t switch immediately. To understand why, we need to consider Python packaging…

In version 3.8, Python supports System V style shared memory. This support allows creation of memory segments that can be shared between…

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create graphical user interface (GUI) applications with Python and PyQt. Once you've covered the basics, you'll build a fully functional desktop calculator that can respond to user events with concrete actions.

Python's range function is a great way to quickly generate a count of numbers within a range. Master this simple but powerful function in this tutorial.

Interested in Django but not sure where to start with Docker? This tutorial will walk you through first steps: modifying a sample Django application to work …

Introduction I’ve introduced the potential flaws of regular DNS queries and responses protocol and a practical solution to address it, which is called ‘DNS-over-TLS protocol’, in …

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In this tutorial, we’ll delve into how Python arrays work, what their limitations are, and how you can use them to maximize their efficiency.

Python 3 is great! But not every Python 2 project has to be migrated. There are different ways how you can prepare for the upcoming Python 2 End of Life.

Taking a brief look at some less known modules from the Standard Library.

Recently we’ve started transitioning from using Celery to using RQ for background jobs. After deploying this we noticed our RQ workers required significantly more CPU to perform the same amount of tasks as our Celery workers did. In this post I share how…

Fellow core developer and Canadian, Mariatta, asked on Twitter about python -m pip and who told her about that idiom along with asking for a reference explaining it:

I learned sometime ago that we should be doing
`python -m pip install ...` instead of simply…