Automate Your Inbox: How to Send Emails with Python
Imagine your Web Scraper finds a great deal. Wouldn’t it be nice if it emailed you immediately? With the right know-how, you can send emails…
Inheritance in Python: How to Re-use Code in Classes
In our Guide to OOP, we created a Dog class. But what if we also need a Cat class? They both have names and ages….
How to Fix: UnboundLocalError: local variable referenced before assignment
This is one of Python’s trickiest errors, known as UnboundLocalError. It happens because of how Python handles Variable Scope (where variables can be seen). âš¡…
Merging DataFrames in Pandas: A Guide to merge() and concat()
Real-world data is rarely in one single file. You might have sales data in one CSV and customer info in another. You need to combine…
Web Scraping 101: Intro to BeautifulSoup and Python Requests
Sometimes the data you need isn’t in a nice CSV file; it’s stuck on a website. Web Scraping is the process of using code to…
Python Generators vs. Lists: How to Save Memory
Imagine you need to process 1 billion numbers. If you create a List of 1 billion numbers, Python has to create all of them at…
Django Models: Introduction to Databases and ORM
When working with databases today, Django Models can simplify the process. A real website needs to save data: users, blog posts, comments, products. In the…
Beginner Project: Build a Weather App with Python (Using APIs)
Real-world applications don’t just use data you type in; they fetch data from the internet. A Python Weather App, for instance, would do this using…
How to Fix: TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str
If you’ve ever encountered “TypeError: list indices”, this error almost always means one thing: You think you have a Dictionary, but you actually have a…
Python List Comprehensions: Writing Cleaner Code
If you have been writing Python for more than a few days, you have likely written this exact sequence of boilerplate code: While this works…
