Brenda has a penchant for punctuation as Tutorial Editor for Real Python. She’s had a few past lives as a teacher, technical writer/editor, and instructional designer. When she’s not working with content creators to perfect their tutorials, you’ll find her teaching yoga, hanging with her kids, and exploring the forests and mountains near her home in Calgary, Alberta.

Tutorials by Brenda:

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Tutorials Brenda Contributed to:

• Build a Personal Diary With Django and Python
• Python's assert: Debug and Test Your Code Like a Pro
• Variables in Python: Usage and Best Practices
• Primer on Jinja Templating
• How to Write Beautiful Python Code With PEP 8
• How to Get a List of All Files in a Directory With Python
• Python's pathlib Module: Taming the File System
• HTML and CSS for Python Developers
• Python's urllib.request for HTTP Requests
• Inheritance and Composition: A Python OOP Guide
• Operators and Expressions in Python
• Image Processing With the Python Pillow Library
• Iterators and Iterables in Python: Run Efficient Iterations
• How to Remove Items From Lists in Python
• Working With JSON Data in Python
• Using Python's pip to Manage Your Projects' Dependencies
• How to Flatten a List of Lists in Python
• Strings and Character Data in Python
• Basic Data Types in Python: A Quick Exploration
• Get Started With Django User Management
• Dictionaries in Python
• Python's property(): Add Managed Attributes to Your Classes
• Dependency Management With Python Poetry
• Build Enumerations of Constants With Python's Enum
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python
• Python Classes: The Power of Object-Oriented Programming
• YAML: The Missing Battery in Python
• Build Command-Line Interfaces With Python's argparse
• The Walrus Operator: Python's Assignment Expressions
• Primer on Python Decorators
• Sorting a Python Dictionary: Values, Keys, and More
• Python Set Comprehensions: How and When to Use Them
• Python News Roundup: December 2024
• Using and Creating Global Variables in Your Python Functions
• How to Run Your Python Scripts and Code
• Asynchronous Tasks With Django and Celery
• Python Timer Functions: Three Ways to Monitor Your Code
• Effective Python Testing With pytest
• Python GUI Programming With Tkinter
• When to Use a List Comprehension in Python
• Socket Programming in Python (Guide)
• Linear Regression in Python
• How to Round Numbers in Python
• Expression vs Statement in Python: What's the Difference?
• Basic Input and Output in Python
• Beautiful Soup: Build a Web Scraper With Python
• How to Check if a Python String Contains a Substring
• Python String Formatting: Available Tools and Their Features
• Python Exceptions: An Introduction
• Logging in Python
• Python's F-String for String Interpolation and Formatting
• Python Virtual Environments: A Primer
• Continuous Integration and Deployment for Python With GitHub Actions
• Speed Up Your Python Program With Concurrency
• Efficient String Concatenation in Python
• Python range(): Represent Numerical Ranges
• How to Iterate Through a Dictionary in Python
• NumPy Practical Examples: Useful Techniques
• Interacting With Python
• Using the Python zip() Function for Parallel Iteration
• Using the len() Function in Python
• Python Dictionary Comprehensions: How and When to Use Them
• Python News Roundup: November 2024
• How to Reset a pandas DataFrame Index
• The Python Square Root Function
• Python Closures: Common Use Cases and Examples
• Python Thread Safety: Using a Lock and Other Techniques
• Structural Pattern Matching in Python
• Syntactic Sugar: Why Python Is Sweet and Pythonic
• Build a Contact Book App With Python, Textual, and SQLite
• Python News Roundup: October 2024
• A Guide to Modern Python String Formatting Tools
• Python 3.13: Cool New Features for You to Try
• Python 3.13 Preview: A Modern REPL
• Python 3.13 Preview: Free Threading and a JIT Compiler
• How to Use Conditional Expressions With NumPy where()
• Python News Roundup: September 2024
• Lists vs Tuples in Python
• Generate Images With DALL·E and the OpenAI API
• Web Scraping With Scrapy and MongoDB
• Python News Roundup: August 2024
• Asynchronous Iterators and Iterables in Python
• Functional Programming in Python: When and How to Use It
• How to Write an Installable Django App
• Hugging Face Transformers: Leverage Open-Source AI in Python
• Python Protocols: Leveraging Structural Subtyping
• Split Your Dataset With scikit-learn's train_test_split()
• How Do You Choose Python Function Names?
• Python News Roundup: July 2024
• Python's Built-in Functions: A Complete Exploration
• Understanding the Python Mock Object Library
• Creating Great README Files for Your Python Projects
• Build a Guitar Synthesizer: Play Musical Tablature in Python
• Ruff: A Modern Python Linter for Error-Free and Maintainable Code
• Python Mappings: A Comprehensive Guide
• Python News: What's New From May 2024
• String Interpolation in Python: Exploring Available Tools
• What Are CRUD Operations?
• How to Create Pivot Tables With pandas
• The Python calendar Module: Create Calendars With Python
• Python's Built-in Exceptions: A Walkthrough With Examples
• What Is the __pycache__ Folder in Python?
• PyTorch vs TensorFlow for Your Python Deep Learning Project
• Python News: What's New From April 2024
• Python Sequences: A Comprehensive Guide
• Python's unittest: Writing Unit Tests for Your Code
• What's Lazy Evaluation in Python?
• Write Unit Tests for Your Python Code With ChatGPT
• How to Format Floats Within F-Strings in Python
• Build a Blog Using Django, GraphQL, and Vue
• Pydantic: Simplifying Data Validation in Python
• Python News: What's New From March 2024
• Install and Execute Python Applications Using pipx
• Reading and Writing WAV Files in Python
• Prompt Engineering: A Practical Example
• Build a Python Turtle Game: Space Invaders Clone
• Model-View-Controller (MVC) in Python Web Apps: Explained With Lego
• Python News: What's New From February 2024
• Build an LLM RAG Chatbot With LangChain
• The Python return Statement: Usage and Best Practices
• Building Dictionary Comprehensions in Python (Course)
• Ways to Start Interacting With Python (Course)
• Programming Sockets in Python (Course)
• Handling or Preventing Errors in Python: LBYL vs EAFP (Course)
• Managing Dependencies With Python Poetry (Course)
• Working With TOML and Python (Course)
• Formatting Floats Inside Python F-Strings (Course)
• Introduction to Web Scraping With Python (Course)
• Python's Magic Methods in Classes (Course)
• Understanding Python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) (Course)
• Using Type Hints for Multiple Return Types in Python (Course)
• What's New in Python 3.13 (Course)
• Differences Between Python's Mutable and Immutable Types (Course)
• Advanced Python import Techniques (Course)
• Customizing VS Code Through Color Themes (Course)
• Using Pydantic to Simplify Python Data Validation (Course)
• Using Astropy for Astronomy With Python (Course)
• Exploring Astrophysics in Python With pandas and Matplotlib (Course)
• Sorting Dictionaries in Python: Keys, Values, and More (Course)
• Interacting With REST APIs and Python (Course)
• Simulate a Text File in Python (Course)
• pandas GroupBy: Grouping Real World Data in Python (Course)
• Exercises Course: Introduction to Web Scraping With Python (Course)
• Customize VS Code Settings (Course)
• Defining Python Constants for Code Maintainability (Course)
• Build a GUI Calculator With PyQt and Python (Course)
• Rounding Numbers in Python (Course)
• Listing All Files in a Directory With Python (Course)
• Python Interfaces: Object-Oriented Design Principles (Course)
• Efficient Iterations With Python Iterators and Iterables (Course)
• Building a Python GUI Application With Tkinter (Course)
• HTML and CSS Foundations for Python Developers (Course)
• Flattening a List of Lists in Python (Course)
• Working With Global Variables in Python Functions (Course)
• Python Basics Exercises: Scopes (Course)
• Using raise for Effective Exceptions (Course)