When interviewing Python programming candidates, my wife always likes to ask the simple question, “can you name ten Python standard library modules?” This is harder than most think, as many people will completely blank out and others will be dead wrong. “Requests?” one poor soul answered....
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Is the world ready for Python 3?
The trek from Python 2 to Python 3 has been drawn-out, arduous and fraught with perils. How close are our dear Knights developers to all reaching the long sought glory of Python 3? PIP Downloads Let’s first jump into what is being used the most currently....
Continue reading...Stop using plus signs to concatenate strings!
In Python, using plus signs to concatenate strings together is one of the first things you learn, i.e. print(“hello” + “world!”), and it should be one of the first things you stop using. Using plus signs to “add” strings together is inherently more error prone, messier...
Continue reading...Reuse the work of others for profit! (Vega 64 Edition)
As I sit here, anxious for the new AMD Vega 64 to be released, I decide to keep myself busy writing some Python code….designed to text me as soon as a new “rx vega 64” search term showed up on Amazon (I have the patience of...
Continue reading...First steps into GUI design with Kivy
Boring Background I have always had in interest in making a local photo organization tool, that supports albums and tagging the way I want to do it. Maybe down the line allowing others to connect and use it too. So I started on one a few...
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