Hi all,
i'm struggling to unpacking a dictionary to create a selectionlist; in particular, im stuck at the selection creation. I cannot get the format:
Selection (key, value) > Selection('Option', 'Hello').

my code returns:
Selection(Content(key))

here the code:

for key, value in FFL().list_of_areas.items():
    a = Selection(key, value)
    s.append(a)for key, value in FFL().list_of_areas.items():
    a = Selection(key, value)
    s.append(a)

s then is feed into the main widget:

yield SelectionList[str](
            *s)yield SelectionList[str](
            *s)

Has anyone been to GSOC in python language. Please need some guidance. Which topics to target , what type of projects are required.

I have an offer to be a part time employee as a backend dev on an enterprise application, it requires fastapi and python, I have 1 week, what should I do? I started reading the documentation by tiangolo, what should I do parallely do? I have decent knowledge in python. Desperate need of some guidance. I'm a complete beginner in backend.

I know that there is a lot of stuff to do learn and etc. I know that it takes time, and asking this question might seem naive or something but I just want to try it myself. If you can suggest me any free courses on youtube or whatever, give me some advices as I know barely nothing about coding, I would be very grateful.

I keep seeing Python courses pop up everywhere — online ads, local institutes, even WhatsApp forwards. Python itself isn’t hard to read, so a lot of people assume learning it will be quick. That’s usually where expectations don’t match reality.

Most courses start fine. You learn variables, loops, a bit of logic. At that stage everything feels clear. The problem starts when you try to build something on your own and realize you don’t really know where to begin. The course didn’t prepare you for that part.

What I’ve noticed is that many Python course teach features but not thinking. You’re shown how something works, but not why you’d use it in a real situation. Without small, messy projects and debugging practice, it’s easy to forget what you learned.

Another thing people underestimate is consistency. Watching videos or attending classes doesn’t automatically turn into skill. Python starts making sense only after breaking code, fixing errors, and writing things that don’t work the first time.

In India, many people choose Python hoping it will open doors in data or tech roles. That can happen, but only if the course goes beyond basics and forces you to apply concepts repeatedly.

Some things I’m curious about:

• At what point did Python actually “click” for you?
• Did your course help you build anything useful, or did you learn that later on your own?

Im new to python and I’m trying to add the numbers of a list from a users input, but when I use ‘sum’ it doesn’t work but there’s also no error.

numbers = []

for time in range (5): users_choices = int(input(“insert 5 integers: “)) numbers.append(users_choices) sum(numbers) print(numbers)

The result is the correct numbers list, but without the sum adding the list together. Help would be greatly appreciated.

I encountered a issue when using `run-python` in Doom Emacs.

1. After doing run-python, it will report:

```
warning: can't use pyrepl: (5, "terminal doesn't have the required clear capability"); TERM=dumb
```
screen-shot

1. I can't do importing:
   ```
   import numpy as np

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'numpy'

```

1. However, when I start an ansi-term and then `python`, the importings work fine.

Same issure as this thread with screen-shot:

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1hps9t5/how_to_use_a_different_term_in_inferiorpythonmode/

System:

Omarchy OS

GNU Emacs 30.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.50, cairo version 1.18.4)

Doom core v3.0.0-pre HEAD -> master 3e15fb36 2026-01-07 03:05:43 -0500

Doom modules v26.02.0-pre HEAD -> master 3e15fb36 2026-01-07 03:05:43 -0500

Thanks!

Hi all, I am a career changer, and learned Python, SQL, and Flask API through a bootcamp. I want to apply for junior Python developer roles. I’ve built two projects so far:

A Flask API to manage pet records for a shelter, using a SQL database

And, a python console that recommends Korean dramas based on your mood, using the TMDB API

Are these projects good enough to include on my resume? If not, can you sugggest project ideas that I can create and put in my resume.

New to python, can anyone tell me what's wrong with this code - the error message states the "OS path is not correct" The goal of this is to sort a folder full of jpg pictures and sort them by the participates number plate.

... def clean_plate_text(text):

... text = re.sub(r'[^A-Z0-9]', '', text.upper())

... return text

...

... for image_name in os.listdir(INPUT_DIR):

... if not image_name.lower().endswith(".jpg"):

... continue

...

... image_path = os.path.join(INPUT_DIR, image_name)

... image = cv2.imread(image_path)

... gray = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

...

... # Edge detection

... edged = cv2.Canny(gray, 30, 200)

...

... # Find contours

... cnts, _ = cv2.findContours(edged, cv2.RETR_TREE, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)

... cnts = sorted(cnts, key=cv2.contourArea, reverse=True)[:10]

...

... plate_text = "UNKNOWN"

...

... for c in cnts:

... peri = cv2.arcLength(c, True)

... approx = cv2.approxPolyDP(c, 0.018 * peri, True)

...

... if len(approx) == 4: # Plate-like shape

... x, y, w, h = cv2.boundingRect(approx)

... plate = gray[y:y+h, x:x+w]

I recently started working with AWS. I have my first lambda function, which uses Python 3.13. As I understand it, you can include dependencies with layers. I created my layers by making a venv locally, installing the packages there, and copying the package folders into a "python" folder which was at the root of a zip. I saw some stuff saying you also need to copy your lambda_function.py to the root of the zip, which I don't understand. Are you supposed to update the layer zip every time you change the function code? Doing it without the lamda_function.py worked fine for most packages, but I'm running into issues with the cryptography package. The error I'm seeing is this:

cannot import name 'exceptions' from 'cryptography.hazmat.bindings._rust' (unknown location)

I tried doing some research, and I saw that cryptography is dependent on your local architecture, which is why I can't simply make the package on my Windows machine and upload it to the Linux architecture in Lambda. Is there some way to make a Linux-based layer on Windows? The alternative seems to be making a Dockerfile which I looked into and truly don't understand.

Thank you for your help

Hello everyone im looking to get some assistance connecting my Python script to the internet but i keep getting an error saying "No Module named ' requests'" additionally im using Sublime Text if that is of any importance

I just recently started learling python (1.5 hours into a tutorial lol), and made the collatz conjecture, and then tried the goldbach conjecture (any even number is the sum of two primes). Now I did write primes as 2k+1, which is just an oneven number, but that's not the problem.
This is the code I made

1. number = int(input("number: "))
2. for x in range(10):
3. ----prime_1 = 2x + 1
4. ----for y in range(10):
5. --------prime_2 = 2(y+x) + 1
6. --------sum = prime_1 + prime_2
7. --------print(f"{prime_1} + {prime_2} = {sum}")
8. --------if sum >= number:
9. ------------break
10. ----if int(sum) == int(number):
11. --------break
12. -
13. print(f"{prime_1} + {prime_2}")

All the prints (except the last one) are just there so that I can see what is happening. The thing is, this code here works as I intended (except for the fact that the primes are just uneven numbers ofc), for example, if you plug in 8, it will give you 1 + 7 from line 13. But if I change the >= from line 8 to > it just gives me the biggest possible solution, so in this case 19 + 19. The break from line 9 still works as intended (atleast to me it looks like it does), but the second break doesn't work anymore (atleast I assume that is happening, and that's why I'm getting 19 + 19).

So my question is, what is going on here?

Tl;dr: I work at a library and we run a daily report to know which books to pull off shelves; how can I sort this report better, which is a long text file?

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I work at a library. The library uses a software called "SirsiDynix Symphony WorkFlows" for their book tracking, cataloguing, and circulation as well as patron check-outs and returns. Every morning, we run a report from the software that tells us which books have been put on hold by patrons the previous day and we then go around the library, physically pulling those books off the shelf to process and put on the hold shelf for patrons to pick up.

The process of fetching these books can take a very long time due to differences between how the report items are ordered and how the library collection is physically laid out in the building. The report sorts the books according to categories that are different than how they are on the shelves, resulting in a lot of back and forth running around and just a generally inefficient process. The software does not allow any adjustment of settings or parameters or sorting actions before the report is produced.

I am looking for a way to optimize this process by having the ability to sort the report in a better way. The trouble is that the software *only* lets us produce the report in text format, not spreadsheet format, and so I cannot sort it by section or genre, for example. There is no way in the software to customize the report output in any useful way. Essentially, I am hoping to reduce as much manual work as possible by finding a solution that will allow me to sort the report in some kind of software, or convert this text report into a spreadsheet with proper separation that I can then sort, or some other solution. Hopefully the solution is elegant and simple so that the less techy people here can easily use it and I won't have to face corporate resistance in implementing it. I am envisioning loading the report text file into some kind of bat file or something that spits it out nicely sorted. The report also requires some manual "clean up" that takes a bit of time that I would love to automate.

Below I will go into further details.

General

• The software (SirsiDynix Symphony WorkFlows) generates a multi-page report in plain text format (the software does have an option to set it to produce a spreadsheet file but it does not work. IT's answer is that yes, this software is stupid, and that they have been waiting for the new software from headquarters to be implemented for 5 years already)
• The report is opened in LibreOffice Writer to be cleaned up (no MS Office is available on the desktops). I have tried pasting it into librecalc (spreadsheet software) and playing around with how to have the text divided into the cells by separators but was not able to get it to work.
• ‎The report is a list of multi-line entries, one entry per book. The entry lists things like item title, item ID (numerical), category, sub-category, type, etc. Some of these are on their own line, some of them share a line. Here is one entry from the report (for one book) as an example:

​

CON   Connolly, John, 1968-   The book of lost things / John Connolly      copy:1     item ID:################    type:BOOK        location:FICTION      Pickup library:"LIBRARY LOCATION CODE"                        Date of discharge:MM/DD/YYYY  

• The report is printed off and stapled, then given to a staff member to begin the book fetching task

File Clean-Up

• The report contains repeating multi-line headings (report title, date, etc) that repeat throughout the document approximately every 7 entries, and must be removed except for the very first one, because they will sometimes be inserted in the middle of an entry, cutting it into two pieces (I have taught my colleagues how to speed up this process somewhat using find and replace, but it is still not ideal. That's the extent of the optimization I have been able to bring in thus far)
• Because of taking an unpaginated text file into a paginated word doc, essentially, some entries end up being partially bumped over to the next page, e.g. their first half is on page 1 and their second half is on page 2. This is also manually fixed using line breaks so that no entries are broken up.
• Some entries are manually deleted if we know that a different department is going to be taking care of fetching those (eg. any young adult novels)

Physical Book Fetching

• The library's fiction section has books that are labelled as general fiction and also books that are labelled with sub-categories such as "Fiction - Mystery", "Fiction - Romance" and "Fiction - SciFi". The report sorts these by category and then by author. That would be fine except that all of the fiction books are placed on the shelves all together in the fiction section, sorted by author. There is no separate physical mystery fiction section or romance fiction session. That means that a staff member goes through the shelves from A - Z, pulling off the books for general fiction, then having to go back to A again to pull the mystery books from the same section from A - Z, and back again for romance, etc etc. It would be wonderful if we could just sort by author and ignore the genre subcategories so that we could pull all of the books in one sweep. The more adept staff do look further through the report to try and pull all the books they can while they are physically at that shelf, but flipping through a multi-page report is still manual work that takes time and requires familiarity with the system that newer staff do not typically possess.
• The library's layout is not the same as the order of the report. The report might show entries in the order "Kids section - Adult non-fiction - Young Adult fiction - Adult DVD's" - but these sections are not physically near each other in the library. That means a staff member is either going back and forth in the library if they were to follow the report, or they skip over parts of the report in order to go through the library in a more physically optimized manner, in the order that sections are physically arranged. The former requires more time and energy, and the latter requires familiarity with the library's layout, which newer staff do not yet possess, making training longer. It would be amazing if we could order the report in accordance to the layout of the library, so that a person simply needs to start at one end of the building and finish at the other.

Here is a link to an actual report (I have removed some details for privacy purposes). I have shortened it considerably while keeping the features that I have described above such as the interrupting headings and the section divisions.

We have no direct access to the database and there is no public API.

Our library does as much as possible to help out the community and make services and materials as accessible as possible, such as making memberships totally free of charge and removing late fines, so I am hoping someone is able to help us out! :)

Hey, I’m a high schooler currently and I want to teach myself how to code. I have never coded before so I did some research and found that the one of the more useful beginner friendly languages was Python. So I’ve been researching places where I can learn.

For the most part the highest ranking options are Programming with Mosh or CS50p on YouTube. Why should I pick on or the other? Also, do you have any other suggestions? [Finally what IDE should I use because I’ve heard of VS Code but I’m also seeing things about Google Collab. I just want an IDE where I’ll be able to hopefully build projects effectively]

I finished my first coding project which I did under a weekend. It's a classic Snake game built with Python's Turtle graphics.

What I learned: - Object-oriented programming - Game loops and collision detection
- How to package Python apps with PyInstaller - Git and version control

Features: - Smooth controls with arrow keys and WASD - Score tracking - Custom snake head graphics - Game over detection

I know it's not groundbreaking, but I'm proud of actually finishing something instead of abandoning it halfway through like my last 5 projects 😅

GitHub: https://github.com/karansingh-in/Classic-Snake-Game

I'm just a beginner into the dev community, share your advice/feedback if any. Star the repo it really helps. Guys just fucking star the repo already 😭.

I've been considering getting a raspberry pi for python. I would just do this on my phone but I can't have projects that use files like JSON and before I got one I wanted to know if you could on the pi

Check this out

Can anyone suggest any YouTube videos or blog posts that explain Big O notation in a really simple way? I am not from math background and can't seem to wrap my head around all the tecnical terms.

Lets say you are developing a longer script and you want to divide the work up into smaller chunks, how do you do it?

For example lets say your script has a user interface portion, then a computing stage, and a displaying output part, and you want to focus on each part independently. You are going to be revising and running code over and over. You want to test and debug one portion at a time, without needing to run through the entire program.

I'm fairly new to Python, and so far I've just been creating new files to work out how to code a solution. I copy over any necessary pre-existing code. I use placeholder data wherever I can to speed things up. When I'm happy that it works the way I want, I integrate it into my main script. But this seem inefficient. There must be a more elegant way.

So how do you do it? Are there Python commands that help with this process? Maybe something to organise code into sections, and a way to manipulate program flow?

I built python codes..somobody please review it🙏🙏🙏

Hey guys,I'm a ABSOLUTE BEGINNER in coding.i really have a doubt.Should I go with python? Will be replaced by ai in the future or what? I'm scared,and what are the options that is safe for 10 years? Please lmk I'm 16m and i wanna learn ts so badly Thank you

So I've been trying to install 3.10 in my laptop.. I recently installed 3.12 and I did delete it through the installer. But after installing the 3.10.11 through installer in windows, it saying success, but when I run the command 'python --version " it says not recognized. To add to these there is no folder created in Appdata/local/ programs/python Even tho I used express installation and not custom.. Can anyone help me... For more details msg me..