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OpenPyXL: Working with Microsoft Excel Using Python Ah, Excel. Everyone loves to hate it. But let’s face it. Excel is one of the most popular pieces of software ever written. But you love Python, not Excel, which is why you might want to learn OpenPyXL. MIKE DRISCOLL

Python 101: An Intro to Working With JSON Learn the basics of working with JSON with Python. MIKE DRISCOLL

Introduction to Python Sets Have you heard about Python’s set data type? A set is an unordered collection of distinct objects that support fast membership tests and can be used to remove duplicates from a sequence. Learn all about this handy data type in this beginner-friendly article from Mike Driscoll. MIKE DRISCOLL

Thousands of Scientific Papers May Be Invalid Due to Misunderstanding Python Developers assumed that glob.glob() returns a sorted list of files, but it doesn’t. And this led to a number of statistical errors and data discrepancies in several published scientific papers. MIKE DRISCOLL

An Intro to Flake8 Flake8 is a style guide enforcement tool for Python that you can use in place of PyLint to help you find errors in your code and more closely follow PEP8. This article shows you how to get up and running with Flake8. MIKE DRISCOLL

Intro to Black, the Uncompromising Python Code Formatter Black is a Python code formatter. It will reformat your entire file in place according to the Black code style, which is pretty close to PEP8. This article shows you the basics of working with Black. MIKE DRISCOLL

Make a Python GUI App for NASA’s Image Search API Learn how to build a Python GUI app for browsing the NASA image library from scratch using the wxPython toolkit. MIKE DRISCOLL

Python Used to Take Photo of Black Hole “Scientists have used a new algorithm to take a photo of a black hole. One of the most exciting parts about it to me is that they used a lot of Python libraries to do the magic.” MIKE DRISCOLL

How to Distribute a wxPython Application You finished up a wonderful GUI application using wxPython. How do you share it with the world? Read Mike’s article to find out. MIKE DRISCOLL