Python Essential Libraries

Learn how to use four essential libraries that every Python developer should consider for common development scenarios: Pendulum, Requests, PyFilesystem, and Pillow.

Introduction

• Power up your Python with libraries
• What you should know
• Setting up the development environment

1. Overview

• Introduction to third-party libraries
• Overview of pip

2. Pendulum for Dates

• Introduction to Pendulum
• Creating dates and times
• Date formatting
• Date calculation and comparison
• Challenge: Pendulum
• Solution: Pendulum

3. Requests for Networking

• Introduction to the Requests library
• Creating basic requests
• Working with responses
• Using authentication
• Advanced features

4. PyFilesystem for File Operations

• Overview of PyFilesystem
• Working with files
• Working with directories
• Walking a file system
• Challenge: PyFilesystem
• Solution: PyFilesystem

5. Pillow for Image Processing

• Introduction to Pillow
• Basic image operations
• Image manipulation
• Editing images
• Challenge: Pillow
• Solution: Pillow

Conclusion

• Next steps