And now for something completely different. I don't only write about #Python I have also started writing about one of my silly hobbies: reviewing root beers and related drinks. Feel free to follow along if you like that sort of thing: www.rootbrewreview.com/

The #Python turtle module can do some crazy stuff 🐍🐢

Using semicolons in #Python just for fun

Check out the latest edition of the Python Papers Newsletter, where I talk about Python introspection! open.substack.com/pub/pypaper...

Do you know how to check the metaclass of a class in #Python? Well, one way to do it is to pass the class itself to Python's `type()` function In the following example, Animal's metaclass is type:

Learn how to create an amazing TUI application with #Python and textual today

I am thinking about writing a short book on #Python type hinting to help me remember all the various rules and provide examples for the common and somewhat uncommon cases. Would you be interested in that sort of thing, or do you prefer just letting AI do it?

My latest #Python book is now available in digital format

The latest edition of The Python Papers Newsletter is out now. Today, I wrote a short article on how to add type hints to decorators. Type hinting decorators used to be something that wasn't really possible, but now you have a couple of different way to do it! #Python

Will McGugan posted a neat little app he vibe-coded with Toad recently for the New Year. 🐍🐸🔥 You can try it by running the following: uvx ny2026@latest

Something cool I stumbled across in one of my other social feeds from Patrick Arminio: curl -L christmas.fastapicloud.dev

Need a cross-platform way to get the user's home directory? #Python can do that in 2-3 lines of code:

How to use Python's handy `textwrap` module to dedent multiline text 🐍🔥

How to plot a line graph with #Python and pandas in 5 lines of code 🐍🐼

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My friend, Will McGugan, released his newest project, Toad, today. Will is the mastermind behind the super amazing #Python packages, Rich and Textual! Toad is a front-end for AI tool that runs in your terminal that uses ACP to connect with any AI client

#Python has several constants that you cannot use as variables. 🐍🚀 Here are some examples:

The latest edition of The Python Papers Newsletter is out! Learn about Python virtual environments in the latest tutorial!

How to create a QR code in a PDF using #Python and #ReportLab

Here's another fun #Python visual made with the turtle module 🐍🐢🔥

How to use #Python to generate a password using the secrets module 🐍🔥

Creating pretty pictures with #Python and the turtle module 🐍🐢

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Did you know you can create a class in #Python without using the `class` directive? See the following example to learn how:

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How to convert a CSV file to Excel with THREE lines of code using #Python and pandas 🐍🐼

If you couldn't use #Python anymore, which language would you switch to and why?

How to use #Python's built-in `setattr()` function 🐍🚀

How to use the builtin `getattr()` function in #Python 🐍🔥

Did you know that #Python's `print()` function has extra parameters? You can use `sep` to add a separator and `end` to add an ending string. There are some other params too that I might talk about in a future tweet!

Have you ever used #Python's `format()` method? It's a way to convert a value to a “formatted” representation Here are a few examples:

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How to use #Python's handy built-in reversed() function:

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How to use OpenPyXL to convert an Excel to a CSV file 🐍⚡

#Python power using the built-in `pow()` method pow(base, exponent)

How to get the minimum and maximum values of a sequence in #Python using built-in functions. Note that both functions also have a handy default parameter you can set if the sequences are empty

The latest edition of The Python Papers Newsletter is out! Learn about #Python conditional statements today!

Last week, I mentioned a neat way to plot in your terminal with #Python But there are other terminal plotting libraries too. For example, you can plot with Textual if you get the textual-plot package. Here's an example:

Speaking of plotting sine waves with #Python, here's another example that uses the uniplot package. Uniplot is a plotting library for your terminal

Do you need to change your #Python script's return code depending on whether it fails or not? Use Python's `sys` module! 🐍🤘 Here's how to do it:

How to create a sine wave with #Python using the Bokeh and numpy packages 🐍🔥

The latest edition of the Python Papers newsletter is hot off the press Learn about Python's numeric types in today's article! open.substack.com/pub/pypaper...

Oxylabs is a well known web scraping company with ten years experence. They have created a #Python web scraper package. You can use Oxylabs to get data from e-commerce websites, search engines, real estate platforms, and more. Here's a simple example of scraping Bing search results:

Which version of Linux did you start with and which one do you use now?

How to create a line plot with matplotlib and #Python