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At the recently concluded Python core team sprint, @ericvsmith and I worked on some major updates to PEP 813 - The Pretty Print Protocol. We think it’s in pretty[1] good shape and essentially ready to be proposed for…
Release: battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map I added four player online mode to Battledrones - previous maps were limited to two. Here's the initial prompt I used: Add a new map for a four player battle -…
A hands-on guide with Gemma 4, Ollama, and the OpenAI Agents SDK The post How to Add Guardrails to a Local LLM Agent appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Explore Python's modern string formatting tools, and learn to harness f-strings and the .format() method for interpolation and formatting.
Use the Python json module to convert, read, write, and validate JSON data for APIs, config files, and on-disk storage.
Learn how to define your own Python function, pass data into it, and return results to write clean, reusable code in your programs.
Learn how to use Python threading to run tasks concurrently, synchronize threads with locks and queues, and avoid race conditions and deadlocks.
Learn how dictionaries in Python work: create and modify key-value pairs using dict literals, the dict() constructor, built-in methods, and operators.
Become an Alexa Python developer by building and deploying your own Alexa skill, a joke bot that responds to voice commands on Amazon Alexa devices.
Master indefinite iteration with Python while loops: build simple and complex loops, use break and continue, and handle infinite loops.
Compare three ways of storing images in Python, as PNG files on disk, in LMDB, and in HDF5, with timings for reading and writing lots of images.
Learn how Python string formatting works with f-strings, the .format() method, and the modulo operator, plus the strengths of each tool.
Explore how Python asyncio works and when to use it. Follow hands-on examples to build efficient programs with coroutines and awaitable tasks.
An idea I spent some time on a project and had finished updating the tutorials and reference documentation I'd created as Markdown .md files. Then I suddenly thought: Why not use the AI to test the documentation? So I…
Here's what it finds that cProfile misses The post Python 3.15 Has a New Profiler appeared first on Towards Data Science.
In this quiz, you'll test your understanding of defining and calling Python functions. You'll revisit the def keyword, parameters, arguments, and more.
You can take this quiz to test your understanding of modern tools for string formatting in Python. These tools include f-strings and the .format() method.
In this quiz, you'll test your understanding of working with JSON in Python. By working through this quiz, you'll revisit key concepts related to JSON data manipulation and handling in Python.
This is a quiz that will review topics covered in our An Intro To Threading tutorial.
Test your understanding of how the Python interpreter works and how to run scripts from the command line, interactive mode, file managers, and IDEs.
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