Enhancements in the Endpoints tool window, extended GitHub gists support for notebooks, and navigation and refactoring across notebooks and scripts – these are just some of the improvements you’ll find in PyCharm 2024.1.1!  You can download the latest version from our download page or update your current version through our free Toolbox App. ...

#627 – APRIL 30, 2024 View in Browser » PEP 686: Make UTF-8 Mode Default This Python Enhancement Proposal outlines making UTF-8 the default throughout Python. This takes the addition of Unicode introduced in Python 3 to its full extent, applying it to file encoding, pipes, and more. Mechanisms for other encoding are still supported. This PEP...

<strong>Topics covered in this episode:</strong><br> <ul> <li><a href="https://wasmer.io/posts/py2wasm-a-python-to-wasm-compiler"><strong>Announcing py2wasm: A Python to Wasm compiler</strong></a></li> <li><strong>Exploring Python packages with</strong> <a href="https://oven.fming.dev"><strong>Oven</strong></a>...

Matplotlib is one of the most popular data visualization packages for the Python programming language. It allows you to create many different charts and graphs. This tutorial focuses on adding a “watermark” to your graph. If you need to learn the basics, you might want to check out Matplotlib—An Intro to Creating Graphs with Python. Let’s get started!...

A global variable is a variable that you can use from any part of a program, including within functions. Using global variables inside your Python functions can be tricky. You’ll need to differentiate between accessing and changing the values of the target global variable if you want your code to work correctly. Global variables can play a fundamental...

Recently I became suddenly curious about the sizes of buildings in Southampton, UK, where I live. I don’t know what triggered this sudden curiosity, but I wanted to know what the largest buildings in Southampton are. In this context, I’m using “largest” to mean largest in terms of land area covered – ie. the area of the outline when viewed in plan view....