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Creating a Python Dice Roll Application In this step-by-step video course, you’ll build a dice-rolling simulator app with a minimal text-based user interface using Python. The app will simulate the rolling of up to six dice. Each individual die will have six sides. REAL PYTHON course

Django Simple Deploy and Other DevOps Things Talk Python interviews Eric Matthes, educator, author, and developer behind Django Simple Deploy. If you’ve ever struggled with taking that final step of getting your Django app onto a live server this tool might be for you. KENNEDY & MATTHES podcast

Mastering DuckDB: Part 2 This is the second part in a post on how to use DuckDB when you’re used to pandas or Polars. It covers how to translate DataFrame operations into not-so-obvious SQL ones. QUANSIGHT.ORG • Shared by Marco Gorelli

Process​Thread​Pool​Executor: When I‍/‍O Becomes CPU-bound Learn how to combine thread and process management into a single executor class. Includes details on when you may be I/O vs CPU bound and what to do about it. LEMON24

Marimo: Reactive Notebooks for Python Marimo is a new alternative to Jupyter notebooks. Talk Python interviews Akshay Agrawal and they talk all about this latest data science tool KENNEDY, AGRAWAL

Background Tasks in Django Admin With Celery This tutorial looks at how to run background tasks directly from Django admin using Celery. TESTDRIVEN.IO • Shared by Michael Herman

Namespaces in Python In this tutorial, you’ll learn about Python namespaces, the structures that store and organize the symbolic names during the execution of a Python program. You’ll learn when namespaces are created, how they’re implemented, and how they support variable scope. REAL PYTHON

How to Exit Loops Early With the Python Break Keyword In this tutorial, you’ll explore various ways to use Python’s break statement to exit a loop early. Through practical examples, such as a student test score analysis tool and a number-guessing game, you’ll see how the break statement can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your code. REAL PYTHON

YOLO11 for Real-Time Object Detection Ready-to-deploy, state of the art, open source computer vision apps? Sign me up! INTEL CORPORATION sponsor

Is Python Code Sensitive to CPU Caching? In lower level languages, being aware of what gets cached in the CPU can make large differences in performance. Python, being higher level, doesn’t give you that kind of control. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t things you can do. LUKAS ATKINSON

Learning Intermediate Python With a Deep Dive Course Do you want to learn deeper concepts in Python? Would the accountability of scheduled group classes help you get past the basics? This week, five Real Python Intermediate Deep Dive workshop members discuss their experiences. REAL PYTHON podcast

Checking for Membership Using in and not in In this video course, you’ll learn how to check if a given value is present or absent in a collection of values using Python’s in and not in operators, respectively. This type of check is known as membership test in Python. REAL PYTHON course

How to Strip Characters From a Python String Use Python’s .strip() method to remove unwanted whitespace or specific characters. Learn about common pitfalls, real-world use cases, and compare .strip() with similar methods like .lstrip() and .removesuffix(). REAL PYTHON

Using Python’s .__dict__ to Work With Attributes In this tutorial, you’ll dive deeper into the .__dict__ attribute in Python objects. This attribute is a dictionary-like object that holds writable class or instance attributes. It allows you to manage attributes at a low level, making your classes flexible and efficient. REAL PYTHON