As you may be aware, I am a Python tutor online and quite often I get asked pretty specific questions. This week, I was asked to show a simple way to find the distance in […]
Category: Python
A UK Postcode Validation Script In Python
The below script takes the input of a UK postcode and ensures that it matches a valid format. I have handled the below formats: X11XX XX11XX XX111XX To do this, I use some regular expressions. […]
Making a simple hangman game in Python
Today I thought it might be cool to make a super simple little text based game in Python in my spare 15 minutes. So I made this hangman game. As you can see, the word […]
Python Brainteaser: Formatting Numbers with Commas
Often, you will want to format your numbers in Python because it’s quite hard for a user to read 10000000000 and immediately understand it as: 10,000,000,000. So, this little article will show you one possible […]
Introducing Zip Lists in Python
The Python zip function is incredibly useful. It takes in an iterable (a list, a tuple, a dictionary etc..) and returns an iterator. Well, that’s as clear as mud, right? Let’s look at an example […]
Quick Tip: Lambda Functions
Those of you that know me will know I am not a fan of Lambda functions. I just don’t buy into the notion of making code as concise as possible at the detriment of readability. […]
Quick Tip: Filter function in Python
This is a really quick post about filtering in Python. In the below, you will see that we have a list of animals. I want to filter that list based on a boolean condition – […]
Maintaining state while threading in Python
If you have ever worked with threading in Python before, you may have encountered issues where everything gets a little bit out of step (if you’re incrementing a counter, 2 threads may simultaneously try to […]
A crash course in threading and multiprocessing in python
When you first start looking into asynchronous processing in Python, you’ll come across a couple of terms: threading and multiprocessing. The first part of this article then, is about understanding what those two terms mean […]
UPDATED: All about classes in python
Classes are great when you’re working with concepts in the real world. They are by no means a necessary construct in Python, they’re mostly used for code simplification, readaibility and reusability. We’ll walk through some […]
Django create a file upload form with version control and save output to model
In my last articles, I spoke about creating a login for an app in Django and creating a file upload form in Django. In this article, I am going to share with you what project […]
Django: File uploads in forms
There are so many usecases where you’ll want to be able to upload a whole bunch of files to a website at once and yet, there isn’t really a well documented way to do it. […]
