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September 2023
How to Send Email with Python (Part II)
You may have noticed in last week’s newsletter that the article didn’t cover everything mentioned in the introduction. While that was intentional to…
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How to Send Emails with Python
Python provides a couple of really nice modules that you can use to craft emails with. They are the email and smtplib modules. Instead of going over…
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How to Validate an IP Address in Python
Validating data is one of the many tasks engineers face around the world. Your users make typos as often as anyone else, so you must try to catch those…
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Converting CSV to Excel with Python
You will need to work with many common file types as a software developer. One such format is the CSV file. CSV stands for "Comma-Separated Values" and…
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August 2023
An Intro to Protocol Buffers with Python
Protocol buffers are a data serialization format that is language agnostic. They are analogous to Python’s pickle format, but one of the advantages of…
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Python 101 - Expanding Paths and Variables
Working with file and folder paths in Python can take time and effort. Fortunately, the Python programming language has a couple of great packages to…
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Python 101 - Creating Rotating Logs
Python’s logging module has lots of options. In this article, you will look at the logging module’s ability to create Rotating Logs. Python supports two…
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Python 101 - Boolean Operations and None
You will find that you often need to know if something is True or False. For example, you might want to know if someone is old enough to create a bank…
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Python 101 - Learning About Tuples
Tuples are another sequence type in Python. Tuples consist of several values that are separated by commas. A tuple is immutable, whereas a list is not…
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July 2023
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