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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
Take a deep dive into how Python attributes work, including a detailed analysis of the CPython code.
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Python Testing & Packaging Best Practices With tox
How to ensure that your tests run code that you think they are running, and how to measure your coverage over multiple tox runs (in parallel.)
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Python Bug Hunt: node.example.com Is an IP Address?
Read about how a majorly confusing bug led one developer to a deeper understanding of text, how Python 2 and Python 3 handle text differently (hey, some people still have to support legacy Python!), and why you should always, always write tests.
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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 Python’s Evolution Impacts Your Fluency With Luciano Ramalho
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Quantitative Economics With Python
Python has played increasingly important roles in the finance and economics spaces. Learn the fundamentals of quantitative economics from these free and in-depth written lectures with tons of examples in Python.
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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
Explore three ways to use type hints more explicitly in Python and avoid using the Any type.
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