You may have begun your Python journey interactively, exploring ideas within Jupyter Notebooks or through the Python REPL. While that’s great for quick experimentation and immediate feedback, you’ll likely find yourself saving code into .py files. However, as your codebase grows, knowing where thing...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python’s Format Mini-Language for Tidy Strings. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how format specifiers work inside f-strings and str.format(), including alignment and width fields, decimal precision, type representations, thousand separator...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the video course Structuring Your Python Script. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to make a Python script executable with a shebang, organize your imports per PEP 8, automatically sort imports with ruff, and define a clear entry point u...

Sometimes you need to make Python sleep, wait, or pause before running the next line of code. Whether you’re spacing out API requests, pacing a thread, or adding a delay to terminal output, Python’s time.sleep() function is the standard tool: Language: Python from time import sleep sleep(3) # Pause ...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Regular Expressions: Regexes in Python (Part 1). By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to use the re module to search for patterns, build character classes and anchors, group and capture substrings, and apply flags like re.IGNORECASE to cont...

Have you ever been confused by the naming of modules you're importing from a package? Is there a standard way to organize and name your Python virtual environments? This week on the show, Brett Cannon returns to discuss the Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) he's been working on recently. [ Improve...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python’s assert: Debug and Test Your Code Like a Pro. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how assertions help you debug, test, and document your code, when to disable them in production, and which common pitfalls to avoid. [ Improve Your Pytho...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of BNF Notation: Dive Deeper Into Python’s Grammar. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to read Python’s grammar rules, recognize terminals and nonterminals, and interpret the BNF fragments that appear throughout the official documentation. [...

You probably found this tutorial because you want to send emails with Python to automate confirmation messages, password resets, or scheduled notifications. Python’s standard library covers the whole pipeline, from making a server connection to building the message and sending it to one or many reci...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Sending Emails With Python. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to build messages with the EmailMessage class, secure your SMTP connection, attach files, send HTML alternatives, route replies to a different mailbox, and address multiple re...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a new open protocol that allows AI models to interact with external systems in a standardized, extensible way. In this video course, you’ll install MCP, explore its client-server architecture, and work with its core concepts: prompts, resources, and tools. You’ll ...

In this quiz, you’ll revisit the core concepts covered in the Python Web Scraping learning path: Learning Path Python Web Scraping 10 Resources ⋅ Skills: Web Scraping, HTTP Requests, Data Parsing You’ll be quizzed on making HTTP requests, parsing HTML with Beautiful Soup, extracting data with Scrapy...

In this quiz, you’ll revisit the core concepts covered in the Data Science With Python Core Skills learning path: Learning Path Data Science With Python Core Skills 21 Resources ⋅ Skills: Pandas, NumPy, Data Cleaning, Data Visualization, Statistics You’ll cover reading and writing CSV files, working...

In this quiz, you’ll revisit the core concepts covered in the Python Control Flow and Loops learning path: Learning Path Python Control Flow and Loops 15 Resources ⋅ Skills: Python, Control Flow, Conditional Statements, Booleans, for Loops, while Loops, enumerate, Nested Loops, break, continue, pass...

In this quiz, you’ll revisit the core concepts covered in the DevOps With Python learning path: Learning Path DevOps With Python 10 Resources ⋅ Skills: Packaging & Deployment, CI/CD, AWS, Docker, Logging The 16 questions span running Python scripts, managing dependencies with pip, automating workflo...

In this video course quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Connecting LLMs to Your Data With Python MCP Servers. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit core MCP concepts like the client-server architecture, tools that LLMs can call, resources that expose static data, and prompts that act as ...

In this quiz, you’ll revisit the core concepts covered in the Testing and Continuous Integration learning path: Learning Path Testing and Continuous Integration 10 Resources ⋅ Skills: Unit Testing, Doctest, Mock Object Library, Pytest, Continuous Integration, Docker, Code Quality, GitHub Actions, So...

In this quiz, you’ll revisit the core concepts covered in the I/O Operations and String Formatting learning path: Learning Path I/O Operations and String Formatting 10 Resources ⋅ Skills: Python, Fundamentals, I/O, String Formatting, f-strings, print() The 20 questions span reading keyboard input, c...

In this quiz, you’ll revisit the core concepts covered in the Functions and Scopes learning path: Learning Path Functions and Scopes 12 Resources ⋅ Skills: Python, Functions, Scope, Arguments, Parameters, Return, Globals The 20 questions span defining functions, positional and keyword arguments, def...

In this quiz, you’ll revisit the core concepts covered in the Files and File Streams learning path: Learning Path Files and File Streams 13 Resources ⋅ Skills: Python, Pathlib, File I/O, Serialization, Encoding, Unicode, PDF, WAV, Context Managers, ZIP Files You’ll check your understanding of openin...

In this quiz, you’ll revisit the core concepts covered in the Perfect Your Python Development Setup learning path: Learning Path Perfect Your Python Development Setup 17 Resources ⋅ Skills: VS Code, PyCharm, Virtual Environments, pyenv, Docker, Git, GitHub, IDEs, Code Editors, Claude Code, Cursor, G...

In this quiz, you’ll revisit the core concepts covered in the Data Collection & Storage learning path: Learning Path Data Collection & Storage 9 Resources ⋅ Skills: CSV, JSON, pandas, Excel, SQL, SQLite, SQLAlchemy, AWS S3, Databases You’ll work through questions on reading and writing CSV files, se...

In this quiz, you’ll revisit the core concepts covered in the Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python learning path: Learning Path Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) 18 Resources ⋅ Skills: Python, OOP, Classes, Data Classes, Getters, Setters, Property, super(), Magic Methods, Operator Overloading...

In this quiz, you’ll revisit the core concepts covered in the Write More Pythonic Code learning path: Learning Path Write More Pythonic Code 15 Resources ⋅ Skills: Zen of Python, PEP 8, Application Layouts, Duck Typing, Type Checking, Type Hints, Code Documentation, MkDocs, Code Quality, Pylint The ...

In this quiz, you’ll revisit the core concepts covered in the Python Data Structures learning path: Learning Path Python Data Structures 24 Resources ⋅ Skills: Python, Strings, Lists, Tuples, Dictionaries, Sets, List Comprehensions, range(), Bytes, Sorting The 20 questions span strings, lists, tuple...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Visualizing Data in Python With Seaborn. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how seaborn produces polished statistical plots, including bar plots, scatter plots, line plots, histograms, and KDE curves. You’ll also reinforce the differences bet...

In this quiz, you’ll revisit the core concepts covered in the Exceptions, Logging, and Debugging learning path: Learning Path Exceptions, Logging, and Debugging 8 Resources ⋅ Skills: Python, Exceptions, Logging, Debugging, pdb, raise, Built-in Exceptions, Error Handling You’ll be tested on the basic...

In this quiz, you’ll revisit the core concepts covered in the Modules and Packages learning path: Learning Path Modules and Packages 15 Resources ⋅ Skills: Packages, Modules, Import System, pip, PyPI, uv, __init__.py, Namespace Packages You’ll check your understanding of how Python organizes code in...

Visualizing data is a core part of analysis, and Python’s most popular plotting library is Matplotlib. To make a scatter plot, you reach for plt.scatter() from Matplotlib’s pyplot submodule, conventionally aliased as plt. You’ll use it to build both simple two-variable charts and richly customized p...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of How to Make a Scatter Plot in Python With plt.scatter(). By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to use plt.scatter() from Matplotlib’s pyplot submodule, customize markers with the s, c, marker, and alpha parameters, and encode several variabl...