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A while ago, I was asked by a former colleague about the best way to convert Parquet files into comma-separated values (CSV) format using Python. The honest answer? It depends. And so on and so on ...

Running Python scripts is one of the most common tasks in automation. However, managing dependencies across different systems can be challenging. That’s where Docker comes in. Docker lets you package ...

This hands-on tutorial will walk you through the entire process of working with CSV/Excel files and conducting exploratory data analysis (EDA) in Python. We’ll use a realistic e-commerce sales dataset ...

The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for specifying the dependencies of projects. Here’s the what, why, and when. Python Enhancement Proposal ...

Why Do You Need To Set Options Anyway? Well, imagine you’ve got a button or label, and you want it to say something cool like, “Hello, World!” or display an image or have a specific font style. To ...

Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a powerful, free source-code editor that makes it easy to write and run Python code. This guide will walk you through setting up VSCode for Python development, step by ...