Yup — just like everyone else, I’m having a Black Friday sale on all of my online books and courses. Just this weekend, you can use the coupon code BF2018 to improve your Python skills: Object-Oriented Python Understanding and Mastering Git Comprehending Comprehensions Practice Makes Python, complete edition Practice Makes ...

You probably want to understand Python better, use it more efficiently, and write code that you (and others) can maintain — for yourself, your current job, and your career. Weekly Python Exercise lets you make that improvement.  Over the course of a year, you learn to solve more interesting, useful, ...

This is just a reminder that registration for the next cohort of Weekly Python Exercise, my course that combines exercises and community to turn you into an advanced Python developer, closes in just two days, on September 18th. If you’ve always wanted to improve your understanding of such topics as ...

Just about every day for the last decade, I’ve taught Python to developers at companies around the world. And if there’s anything that those developers want, it’s to improve their Python fluency. Being a more fluent Python developer doesn’t only mean being able to solve problems faster and better — ...

I’m a Unix guy, but the participants in my Python classes overwhelmingly use Windows. Inevitably, when we get to talking about working with files in Python, someone will want to open a file using the complete path to the file.  And they’ll end up writing something like this: filename = ...

If you have children, then you probably remember them learning to walk, and then to read. If you’re like me, you were probably amazed by how long it took to do things that we don’t even think about. Things that we take for granted in our day-to-day lives, and which ...