Flashcards are a great tool when you want to memorize a new topic or learn a new language. You write a question on the front of the card and the answer on the back of the card. Then you can test your memory by going through the flashcards. The more often you show a card to yourself, the better your chances of memorizing its content. With Django, you can build your own flashcards app. By following this tutorial, you’ll build […]

You’ve now seen examples of all the basic use cases for NumPy’s max() and maximum(), plus a few related functions. Now you’ll investigate some of the more obscure optional parameters to these functions and find out when they can be useful. Reusing Memory When you call a function in Python, a value or object is returned. You can use that result immediately by printing it or writing it to disk, or by feeding it directly into another function as an […]

TOML—Tom’s Obvious Minimal Language—is a reasonably new configuration file format that the Python community has embraced over the last couple of years. TOML plays an essential part in the Python ecosystem. Many of your favorite tools rely on TOML for configuration, and you’ll use pyproject.toml when you build and distribute your own packages. In this tutorial, you’ll learn more about TOML and how you can use it. In particular, you’ll: A new module for TOML parsing is being added to […]

June 2022 brought a flurry of exciting news for the Python community! The PSF received funding for a new role focused on security, and held elections for four seats on the board of directors. Results from two important developer surveys were published, and new versions of both Python and some popular packages saw the light of day. PEP 691 got accepted, extending the Simple API for Python packaging indexes. With the Python 3.12 change page live, you can now start […]

Python 3.11 is getting closer to its final release, which will happen in October 2022. The new version is currently going through beta testing, and you can install it yourself to preview and test some of the new features, including support for reading TOML with the new tomllib module. TOML is a configuration file format that’s getting more and more popular in the Python ecosystem. This is driven by the adoption of pyproject.toml as the central configuration file in Python […]

Queues are the backbone of numerous algorithms found in games, artificial intelligence, satellite navigation, and task scheduling. They’re among the top abstract data types that computer science students learn early in their education. At the same time, software engineers often leverage higher-level message queues to achieve better scalability of a microservice architecture. Plus, using queues in Python is simply fun! Python provides a few built-in flavors of queues that you’ll see in action in this tutorial. You’re also going to […]

Playing computer games is a great way to unwind or challenge yourself. Some people even do it professionally. It’s also fun and educational to build your own computer games. In this tutorial, you’ll build a classic tic-tac-toe game using Python and Tkinter. With this project, you’ll go through the thought processes required for creating your own game. You’ll also learn how to integrate your diverse programming skills and knowledge to develop a functional and fun computer game. In this tutorial, […]