Interactive Quiz ⋅ 10 QuestionsBy Martin Breuss Share In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the pyproject.toml file. This file is a key component for defining a Python project’s build system, including its requirements and build backend. With appropriate tooling, it can also manage dependencies, optional dependencies, command-line scripts, and dynamic metadata for flexible project configuration. The quiz contains 10 questions and there is no time limit. You’ll get 1 point for each correct answer. At the end of […]

Threads share state in your programs, which means race conditions can be created when two or more threads fight to update a value. This course is about the various primitives you can use to ensure atomic access to your program’s shared state. By the end of this video course, you’ll be able to identify safety issues and prevent them by using the synchronization primitives in Python’s threading module to make your code thread-safe. In this video course, you’ll learn: What […]

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 13 QuestionsBy Martin Breuss Share By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how Python’s uv integrates multiple functionalities into one tool, offering a comprehensive solution for managing Python projects. You can use it for fast dependency installation, virtual environment management, Python version management, and project initialization, enhancing your productivity and efficiency. The quiz contains 13 questions and there is no time limit. You’ll get 1 point for each correct answer. At the end of the quiz, you’ll […]

The uv tool is a high-speed package and project manager for Python. It’s written in Rust and designed to streamline your workflow. It offers fast dependency installation and integrates various functionalities into a single tool. With uv, you can install and manage multiple Python versions, create virtual environments, efficiently handle project dependencies, reproduce working environments, and even build and publish a project. These capabilities make uv an all-in-one tool for Python project management. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll […]

Watch Now This tutorial has a related video course created by the Real Python team. Watch it together with the written tutorial to deepen your understanding: Starting With Python IDLE Python IDLE is the default integrated development environment (IDE) that comes bundled with every Python installation, helping you to start coding right out of the box. In this tutorial, you’ll explore how to interact with Python directly in IDLE, edit and execute Python files, and even customize the environment to […]

MySQL is one of the most popular database management systems (DBMSs) on the market today. It ranked second only to the Oracle DBMS in this year’s DB-Engines Ranking. As most software applications need to interact with data in some form, programming languages like Python provide tools for storing and accessing these data sources. Using the techniques discussed in this video course, you’ll be able to efficiently integrate a MySQL database with a Python application. You’ll develop a small MySQL database […]

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 12 QuestionsBy Bartosz Zaczyński Share In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Shallow vs Deep Copying of Python Objects. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit the concepts of shallow and deep copying, and how they affect mutable objects in Python. The quiz contains 12 questions and there is no time limit. You’ll get 1 point for each correct answer. At the end of the quiz, you’ll receive a total score. The maximum score is 100%. […]

Python’s assignment statements don’t copy objects as they do in some other programming languages. Instead, they create bindings between your variable names and objects. For immutable objects, this distinction usually doesn’t matter. However, when you work with mutable objects or containers of mutable items, you may need to create explicit copies or “clones” of these objects. Explore the nuances of copying objects in Python and learn how to apply these techniques to manage mutable data structures effectively. Getting the Big […]