Topic Archive
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In this guest post Dante tells us about his Wisdom of the Ages app he built for PyBites code challenge 16 (reviewed here). The best way to learn Python is to build something and we are proud of our community achieving just that.
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In this post I detail how to download an xml file to your OS and why it’s not as simple as you’d think
As a relatively newcomer to the Python scene I’ve come to realize that the best way to learn is to actually participate in coding challenges. This has helped to push me out of my comfort zone.
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In this post I discuss (with examples) why it’s important to learn Python by actually coding. It’s not enough to just read!
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Learn to compare blocks of text with the difflib module.
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The formatting of strings has been a hot topic in Python and something that I struggled with at the beginning. It’s quite interesting to see how it’s evolved over time to be what it is today!
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A quick post on a fun trend we saw on Twitter this morning: people posting how long they coded for and what they still had to lookup. Some of this is tongue in cheek of course, but the point is that programming is not easy. Secondly there is no shame in looking things up, we all do it! What do fellow Pythonistas say?
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Shelve basics and a question on how best to manage importing the DB.
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Discover some of the numerous Python Help functions.
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Naming conventions can be tricky in Py. It’s good to make sure we’re all on the same page.