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An Introduction to Python Part 3

In this, the final installment of the blog series on Python, we'll look at modules and how object-oriented programming is supported. We'll take a brief look at two of the popular bindings for Qt from Python: PyQt and PySide. I'll wrap things up with some tips for effective programming and…

An Introduction to Python Part 2

Continuing our three-part series on the Python programming language, in this post we'll look at more of the core language features. File I/O Python provides a number of functions for file input and output, similar to what is provided in standard libraries for languages like C and C++. Shown below…

An Introduction to Python Part 1

Qt programmers traditionally program in the C++ language. It offers a number of benefits, including performance, the ability to do systems programming and to scale from small to very large systems. But the language is quite complex. My copy of the book The C++ Programming Language, 4th edition…