In this tutorial, you'll learn to program rock paper scissors in Python from scratch. You'll learn how to take in user input, make the computer choose a random action, determine a winner, and split your code into functions.

What is it like to design a Python library for three different audiences? This week on the show, we have Nir Aides, creator of Jupylet. His new library is designed for deep reinforcement learning researchers, musicians interested in live music coding, and kids interested in learning to program....

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to work with Python's Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) to process and analyze text. You'll also learn how to perform sentiment analysis with built-in as well as custom classifiers

Get up to speed with Python dependency management quickly and go from writing scripts to building applications with this complete course.

In this tutorial, you'll learn everything you need to know to get up and running with NumPy, Python's de facto standard for multidimensional data arrays. NumPy is the foundation for most data science in Python, so if you're interested in that field, then this is a great place to...

Are you familiar with the role data engineers play in the modern landscape of data science and Python? Data engineering is a sub-discipline that focuses on the transportation, transformation, and storage of data. This week on the show, David Amos is back, and he's brought another batch of...

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to build a dashboard using Python and Dash. Dash is a framework for building data visualization interfaces. It helps data scientists build fully interactive web applications quickly.

This course will get you ready to build with Django REST Framework. The Django REST framework (DRF) is a toolkit built on top of the Django web framework that reduces the amount of code you need to write to create REST interfaces.

In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn how Python's .append() works and how to use it for adding items to your list in place. You'll also learn how to code your own stacks and queues using .append() and .pop().

In this course, you'll learn how to customize Django's admin with Python. You'll use AdminModel objects to add display columns, calculate values, link to referring objects, and search and filter results. You'll also use template overriding to gain full control over the...

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to connect your Python application with a MySQL database. You'll design a movie rating system and perform some common queries on it. You'll also see best practices and tips to prevent SQL injection attacks.

It's been quite the year The Real Python team has written, edited, curated, illustrated, and produced a mountain of Python articles this year. We also upgraded the site and membership with office hours, transcripts, this podcast, and much more. We are joined by two members of the Real...

In this course, you'll learn how you can use the Python pickle module to convert your objects into a stream of bytes that can be saved to a disk or sent over a network. You'll also learn the security implications of using this process on objects from an untrusted source.

In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn how to prevent freezing GUIs by offloading long-running tasks to worker QThreads in PyQt.

Have you wondered how Python manages memory? How are your variables stored in memory, and when do they get deleted? This week on the show, David Amos is here, and he has brought another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects. Along with the Real Python article on Python memory...

In this tutorial, you'll learn about the Python pass statement, which tells the interpreter to do nothing. Even though pass has no effect on program execution, it can be useful. You'll see several use cases for pass as well as some alternative ways to do nothing in your code.

In this step-by-step course, you'll learn the basics of Python programming with the help of a simple and interactive Python library called turtle. If you're a beginner to Python, then this course will definitely help you on your journey as you take your first steps into the world of...

In this article, you'll get an overview of the discipline of data engineering. You'll learn what is and isn't part of a data engineer's job, who data engineers work with, and why data engineers play a crucial role in many industries.

Have you started to use generators in Python? Are you unsure why you would even use one over a regular function? How do you use the special send method and the yield from syntax? This week on the show, we have Reuven Lerner to talk about his PyCon Africa 2020 talk titled Generators, coroutines...

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Python's bitwise operators to manipulate individual bits of data at the most granular level. With the help of hands-on examples, you'll see how you can apply bitmasks and overload bitwise operators to control binary data in your code.

Learn what concurrency means in Python and why you might want to use it. You'll see a simple, non-concurrent approach and then look into why you'd want threading, asyncio, or multiprocessing.

If you're coming to Python from a different language, you may not know about a useful tool for working with loops, Python's built-in enumerate function. This week on the show, David Amos is here, and he has brought another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects. Along...

Get ready for a deep dive into the internals of Python to understand how it handles memory management. By the end of this course, you’ll know more about low-level computing, understand how Python abstracts lower-level operations, and find out about Python’s internal memory management algorithms.

One of the best ways to learn something well is to teach it. This week on the show, we have Kelly Schuster-Paredes and Sean Tibor from the Teaching Python podcast. Sean and Kelly teach middle school students Python and share their art and science of teaching Python on their podcast. They wanted...

In this course, you'll see two items to add to your Python string formatting toolkit. You'll learn about Python's string format method and the formatted string literal, or f-string. You'll learn about these formatting techniques in detail and add them to your Python string...

Are you interested in learning more about Natural Language Processing? Have you heard of sentiment analysis? This week on the show, Kyle Stratis returns to talk about his new article titled, Use Sentiment Analysis With Python to Classify Movie Reviews. David Amos is also here, and all of us cover...

In this course, you'll learn how to perform more complex string pattern matching using regular expressions, or regexes, in Python. You'll also explore more advanced regex tools and techniques that are available in Python.

So you built a web application in Python. Now how are you going to authorize users? Security goes beyond authentication. Who gets to do what, where, and when? This week on the show, we have Sam Scott, chief technology officer from Oso. Oso is an open-source policy engine for authorization that you...

In this step-by-step course, you'll learn how the Python defaultdict type works and how to use it for handling missing keys when you're working with dictionaries. You'll also learn how to use a defaultdict to solve problems like grouping or counting the items in a sequence or...

Are you ready to move beyond flat files for your data in Python? Maybe you're not sure where to start with databases and SQL. This week on the show, David Amos returns with another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects. We cover a Real Python article about managing data with SQLite...