Archive - The Python Papers

New Book: Vibe Coding Video Games with Python

My latest book, Vibe Coding Video Games with Python, is now available as an eBook.

Jan 15 • Mike Driscoll

Textual - How to Log to Both the Console and a File

Textual is a wonderful Python package that allows you to create a text-based user interface (TUI) in your terminal.

Jan 13 • Mike Driscoll

How to Type Hint a Decorator in Python

Decorators are a concept that can trip up new Python users.

Jan 6 • Mike Driscoll

December 2025

How to Switch to ty from Mypy

Python has supported type hinting for quite a few versions now, starting way back in 3.5.

Dec 30, 2025 • Mike Driscoll

Product Review: Python Flash Cards

No Starch Press is best known for creating books on computer programming.

Dec 23, 2025 • Mike Driscoll

Python 101 - Python Virtual Environments

Python has the concept of the virtual environments built-in to the language.

Dec 17, 2025 • Mike Driscoll

Vibe Coding the Snake Game with Python and pygame

There are many great computer games.

Dec 9, 2025 • Mike Driscoll

Python 101 - More About Loops

A couple of weeks ago, you learned about for loops.

Dec 3, 2025 • Mike Driscoll

November 2025

Python Black Friday Sales

Hi, I am running a Black Friday sale for ALL my Python eBooks and courses.

Nov 28, 2025 • Mike Driscoll

Python 101 - The for Loop

There are many times when you are writing code that you will need to process each object in a collection.

Nov 17, 2025 • Mike Driscoll

Python 101 - Conditional Statements

Developers have to make decisions all the time.

Nov 10, 2025 • Mike Driscoll

Python 101 - Numeric Types

Python is a little different than some languages in that it only has three built-in numeric types.

Nov 5, 2025 • Mike Driscoll

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