Practical Python in 10 Lines of Code (or Less)
Python is a very expressive language. As Python developers we have access to 100,000s of libraries, saving a lot of coding effort. It may not be the fastest code to run but using Python...
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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,...
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 =...
Retrieve and display a data set
(First part of the “Practical Python in 10 lines or less” series) Python is a simple but powerful language, and comes with a wealth of libraries. The chart above took just 10 lines of...
