There are plenty of blogging platforms out there that you can use out of the box. However, building your own blog from scratch with Django is a great way to keep control over your content. Even if you’re just getting started with Django, its user-friendly features will allow you to focus on designing and posting your content. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to: Set up a new Django project Create and edit blog posts Display posts to the user […]

Sorting strings in Python is something that you can almost take for granted if you do it all the time. Yet, it can become surprisingly tricky considering all the edge cases lurking in the vast Unicode standard. Understanding Unicode isn’t an easy feat, so prepare yourself for a whirlwind tour of surprising edge cases and effective ways of dealing with them. Note: In this tutorial, you’ll often use the term Unicode string to mean any string with non-Latin letters and […]

As the leaves turned yellow and fall set in, the Python community prepared for the release of Python 3.12 in early October. This new version of the most popular programming language brings several exciting new features, including better error messages and improvements to static typing. It also lays the groundwork for enhanced parallelism. Microsoft Excel is about to become a friendlier space for Pythonistas with the integration of the Python Editor, opening up new possibilities for those bridging the gap […]

In Python, a tuple is a built-in data type that allows you to create immutable sequences of values. The values or items in a tuple can be of any type. This makes tuples pretty useful in those situations where you need to store heterogeneous data, like that in a database record, for example. Through this tutorial, you’ll dive deep into Python tuples and get a solid understanding of their key features and use cases. This knowledge will allow you to […]

Python 3.12 was published on October 2, 2023. As usual, the new version comes out in October after lots of effort by volunteers worldwide. The new version comes with several new features and improvements that you’ll explore in this tutorial. You can also dive into the documentation to see a complete list of all changes. In this tutorial, you’ll learn about new features and improvements, like: Better error messages with helpful suggestions and guidance More expressive f-strings that are backed […]

Python’s support for static typing gradually improves with each new release of Python. The core features were in place in Python 3.5. Since then, there’ve been many tweaks and improvements to the type hinting system. This evolution continues in Python 3.12, which, in particular, simplifies the typing of generics. In this tutorial, you’ll: Use type variables in Python to annotate generic classes and functions Explore the new syntax for type hinting type variables Model inheritance with the new @override decorator […]