Category: Python

Alphabet on blackboard

Tips for writing better Python code

I was a very experienced programmer when I started using Python. So I wrote some very bad Python code. Each language has its own way of doing things. The more you learn the language,...

Control your computer using Python

Python is an excellent language for taking control of your computer and performing some of the more tedious tasks. I recently used it to automate how I create Python training videos and have just...

A simple GUI (graphical user interface)

Python is an easy-to-learn yet powerful language, and comes with a wealth of libraries. It is often used to create simple scripts. You run these on the command line, giving it any parameters it...

Take out your turtle for a recursive walk

Python is a simple but powerful language, and comes with a wealth of libraries. It took just 10 lines of code and the Turtle library to create the black line in the image above....

A simple plot with Python and Bokeh

Python is a simple but powerful language, and comes with a wealth of libraries. The chart above took just 9 lines of Python. All the hard work is done by the Bokeh library. It...

Use Python to update a spreadsheet

How would you like to grab a share price daily and store it in a spreadsheet? Or add a new column to dozens of spreadsheets – automatically? Python is a simple but powerful language,...

1/2 + 1/3 = 1/6

Fractions in Python

When you ask your spreadsheet to calculate 1/2 + 1/3 you get something like this: This is obviously an approximation. The 3’s after the decimal point repeat indefinitely. The correct answer is: 1/2 =...