To greatly improve your development — Python is a representative object-oriented language, in which everything is organized around objects — built-in and custom classes, instances, modules, and functions. When we deal with objects, it’s often needed to check what they are such that we can use them accordingly. In this article, I’d like to introduce nine…

Is it the next big thing? Probably if it continues to evolve — During the 2022 PyCon US conference, one of the keynote speakers Peter Wang unveiled PyScript — a way to write Python script directly within HTML. If you don’t know Peter, you may have heard of Anaconda, which is one of the most popular distributions of Python and R with a…

A high-level review of your knowledge about Python strings — Texts are the most fundamental form of information exchange. No matter what applications you’re building, you’ll inevitably deal with textual information in some ways. Thus, it’s critical for you to have a good understanding of the essential techniques in using and processing strings in Python. In this article, I’d like…

Learn pragmatic Python skills — It’s a book about learning pramatic Python skills using solid code examples that address real-life coding problems. It’s current under development, with a planned size of 14 — 15 chapters. You can find more about this book through Manning Early Access Program. I’ll provide updates frequently about the book development…

A detailed tutorial — from installation to code examples — On Apr 25, 2022, Python published the latest alpha — 3.11.0a7, which represents the last release for the alpha phase for the 3.11 development. It’ll be moving to the beta phase early in May and the final official version of 3.11 is expected to be released in Oct 2022. I…

Touching base on some core features in Python as an OOP language — At its core, Python is an OOP language by design. It has everything implemented as objects, packages, modules, classes, functions, and certainly instance objects of classes. When we build our applications, we usually must create custom classes to bundle related data and functionalities together — a typical OOP approach to…

Use them when appropriate — Most time in any project, we’re working to define a variety of classes to model our data. Thus, building proper classes is an essential technique to make your project robust and maintainable. In general, a custom class takes the following form: class CustomClass # the body of the class pass …

Processing and creating JSON data in Python — JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a popular data format that is commonly used in data interchanges between different systems. For instance, many APIs return results in the format of JSON data. Given JSON’s remarkable readability and its object-like structure, it’s useful to know how Python handles JSON data. In this…

Learn the best practices for defining a function’s docstrings — When we come across a new function, we often need to look up its documentation to figure out how to use it. For example, we come across the built-in id function and we know that we can check an object’s memory address. However, chances are that we don’t know how…