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Ditching Excel for Python: Lessons Learned From a Legacy Industry
Learn how Python is revolutionizing an industry that’s notoriously resistant to change and fraught with every programmer’s most dreaded tool: Excel spreadsheets.
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Python Is TIOBE’s Programming Language of 2020
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Python Behind the Scenes: How Python Attributes Work
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Python Testing & Packaging Best Practices With tox
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Python Bug Hunt: node.example.com Is an IP Address?
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PEP 648: Extensible Customizations of the Interpreter at Startup
Did you know you can customize the Python interpreter and even tell it to execute code at startup time? The current system for implementing these customizations is a bit dated, and this PEP proposes a change that brings a lot more flexibility and extensibility to this little-known feature.
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How to Merge DataFrames in Pandas
Examples on how to combine DataFrames in Pandas using the merge, join, append, concat, combine_first, and update functions.
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Using Django & AssemblyAI for More Accurate Twilio Call Transcriptions
Use Python, Django and AssemblyAI’s transcription API to improve recording accuracy for Twilio Programmable Voice phone calls.
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Python’s .append(): Add Items to Your Lists in Place
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Doing Python Development Under Mac OS
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Python Typing: Resisting the Any Type
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