Want to improve your Python fluency? There’s no better way than doing exercises, practicing your Python skills and ensuring you understand how to solve problems in the best possible way. My book, “Python Workout,” not only contains 50 of my favorite exercises from my Python training business (at some of ...

The biggest problem with software today isn’t writing code. It’s maintaining — debugging, improving, and expanding — existing code. It’s hard to maintain someone else’s code. Heck, it’s even hard to maintain your own code. (Who among us hasn’t looked at code and said, “Who was the idiot who wrote ...

I’m delighted to announce that Weekly Python Exercise is a gold sponsor of PyCon 2020, to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. PyCon is the largest Python conference in the world, and is both fun and interesting for Python developers of all experience levels and backgrounds. This will be the second ...

If you’ve been programming in Python for any length of time, then you’ve undoubtedly heard that “everything is an object.” But what does that mean? And who cares?  And what effect does that have on you as a developer — or on Python, as a language? Indeed, how can (and ...

About a month ago, I started my “Python standard library video explainer series” on YouTube. My goal is to walk through the Python standard library, one little bit at a time — explaining it to Python developers, and also discovering (for myself) the many gems that exist in there, but ...

I’ve attended two Python conferences so far this year: PyCon (in May, in Cleveland, Ohio) and EuroPython (in July, in Basel, Switzerland). Both were fantastic; I was happy to be a sponsor at PyCon in the US, and to give my “practical decorators” talk at both conferences. While in Basel, ...