The terminal can be intimidating to work with when you’re used to working with graphical user interfaces (GUIs). However, it’s an important tool that you need to get used to in your journey as a Python developer. And once you level up your skill of using the terminal, it becomes an extremely powerful tool in your repertoire. With just a few commands in the terminal, you can do tasks that are impossible or at least very tedious to do in […]

# app.py import pandas as pd from dash import Dash, Input, Output, dcc, html data = ( pd.read_csv(“avocado.csv”) .assign(Date=lambda data: pd.to_datetime(data[“Date”], format=”%Y-%m-%d”)) .sort_values(by=”Date”) ) regions = data[“region”].sort_values().unique() avocado_types = data[“type”].sort_values().unique() external_stylesheets = [ { “href”

Because Python has limited parallelism when using threads, using worker processes is a common way to take advantage of multiple CPU cores. The multiprocessing module is built-in to the standard library, so it’s frequently used for this purpose. But while multiple processes let you take advantage of multiple CPUs, moving data between processes can be very slow. And that can reduce some of the performance benefits of using worker processes. Let’s see: Why processes can have performance problems that threads […]

Do you want to build a compact visual progress indicator for your Python script using print(), but your output doesn’t show up when you’d expect it to? Or are you piping the logs of your script to another application, but you can’t manage to access them in real time? In both cases, data buffering is the culprit, and you can solve your troubles by flushing the output of print(). In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to: Flush the output data […]

The new year has arrived, and January brought a flurry of new and interesting Python enhancement proposals (PEPs). Topics range from f-string formalization and no-GIL Python to packaging. There’s been ample discussion on the Python Discourse forum about the implications of these PEPs, and if you’re still a bit wary of diving deeper into the discussions, then you can get a softer introduction here. There have also been a couple of noteworthy new releases, first and foremost the fourth alpha […]

Splitting a Python list into chunks is a common way of distributing the workload across multiple workers that can process them in parallel for faster results. Working with smaller pieces of data at a time may be the only way to fit a large dataset into computer memory. Sometimes, the very nature of the problem requires you to split the list into chunks. In this tutorial, you’ll explore the range of options for splitting a Python list—or another iterable—into chunks. […]

In this tutorial, you’ll build your own Wordle clone for the terminal. Since Josh Wardle launched Wordle in October 2021, millions of people have played it. While you can play the original game on the Web, you’ll create your version as a command-line application and then use the Rich library to make it look good. As you follow along in this step-by-step project, you’ll practice how to set up a simple prototype game before iteratively developing it into a solid […]