A while ago I wrote about installing modules to a custom location, and in that entry one reason I said for not doing this with a virtual environment was that I didn't want to put the program involved into a virtual environment just to use some Python modu... (more…)

Many of us use password managers to securely store our many unique passwords. A critical part of a password manager is the master password. This password protects all others, and in that way, it is a risk. Anyone who has it can pretend to be you… anywhere... (more…)

Learn web scraping with Python with this step-by-step tutorial. We will see the different ways to scrape the web in Python through lots of example. (more…)

We have covered before how to work with OpenCV to detect shapes in images, but today we will take it to a new level by introducing DLib, and abstracting face features from an image. Essential OpenCV Functions to Get You Started into Computer Vision Dlib i... (more…)

Next month, Python’s primary package installer, pip, will release a breaking change. Stewardship is about adding capabilities without… (more…)