Python Recipes
Popular Python cookbook recipes – small Python programs, with example code samples to get you started on the language, and give you in-depth knowledge.
Watermark your Images in Python 2.x
When you take photographs and post it onto the internet, it is often handy adding a watermark to prevent and discourage unauthorized copies or image theft. Below is a simple Python script that uses the PIL module to watermark your images. It adds a visible text watermark to the image using the system font. [python] […]
Read MoreRecursive Python Function Example: Make a List of Your Movies!
So. What’s better than making a list of video files on your hard disc drive? Let’s make a list of all video files in a folder, and all other folders in it! What is a Recursive Function in Python? Recursion is a concept in computer science. Essentially, it divides a problem into sub-problems. Recursion in Python […]
Read MorePython Beautiful Soup Example: Yahoo Finance Scraper
Python offers a lot of powerful and easy to use tools for scraping websites. One of Python’s useful modules to scrape websites is known as Beautiful Soup. In this example we’ll provide you with a Beautiful Soup example, known as a ‘web scraper’. This will get data from a Yahoo Finance page about stock options. […]
Read MoreResize an Image with Python 2.x (and in Batch)
Python is a very powerful scripting language and you will be pleasantly surprised to find that a lot of the common functions you would want to build are available to you in library form. The Python ecosystem is very alive and full of libraries. Point in case, today I will show you how to easily […]
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