r/learnpython

A friend told me he's learning to build small apps for himself to help him with minor things. For example, he's working to build a habit tracker app and a reminder/to-do list app. He's learning JavaScript.

On a related note, a lot of people say the best way to learn any coding language is to use it to do something for you or make something easier for you. Basically, build stuff with the language in order to better learn it.

I started learning Python three days ago. There's a YouTube tutorial 12 hours long by this guy named Bro Code that I'm using to start learning. I want to start doing stuff with Python as well, but I'm not sure at what point I'll be ready to try building something, or even what to build for a project. So far, the only things I know are print statements, variable types, and typecasting. I'm learning this on the side since my job takes up most of my week.

So what do you guys use Python for? What have you made with it? How have you used it to make something easier for yourself or do a task faster?

Hey everyone,

I’m Aaron (25) and I’m looking for a study partner interested in data analysis / data science.

Currently working on MySQL, and I also have some experience with Pandas, NumPy, and Plotly. I’ve been away from coding for a while, so I’m a bit rusty at the moment, but I’m getting back into it and want to stay consistent. I’m also planning to improve my skills in visualization (Matplotlib/Seaborn) and build projects.

I’m looking for someone around my age who is genuinely serious about studying regularly (daily or almost daily IST). I’m an introvert, so I might take a little time to get comfortable just looking for someone patient and consistent.

No ghosting please let’s keep it mutual and respectful.

I’m open to sharing my screen during study sessions and keeping each other accountable.

feel free to DM 🙂

So I have been reading trough freecodecamp and due to my adhd it´s painfully boring, especially alone. I feel like I miss important stuff by snoozing over text, but I get anxiety if I read through a text multiple times, so how do you people do, is it fine to miss some info and ask a diffirent person later?

Hello. I’m 38 and soon to be made redundant. I have a lot of free time until I get made redundant December 2027. I’d like a new career change and seeing that we’re in a computer orientated world now would like to learn Python to increase my career goals. Is python hard to learn for a complete beginner? I have about 4 days off per week in which I can learn a new skill.

Making a simple love calculator. When I input Y or N, it automatically skips the if and elif and returns the else statement. What is wrong with my code?

def love_calc ():
    print("Welcome to the Love Calculator! ♡ ")
name1 = str(input("What is your name?: \n"))
name2 = str(input("What is their name?: \n"))
combined_string = name1 + name2
lower_case_string = combined_string.lower()
true_count, love_count = 0, 0
for name in combined_string:
    for letter in ["t","r","u","e"]:
        true_count += name.count(letter)
for name in combined_string:
    for letter in ["l","o", "v", "e",]:
        true_count += name.count(letter)
total_count = int(str(true_count) + str(love_count))
if total_count < 10 or total_count > 90:
    print(f"Your score is {total_count}, you are like peanut butter and jelly!")
elif total_count >= 40 and total_count <= 50:
    print(f"Your score is {total_count}, you go together just fine.")
else:
    print(f"Your score is {total_count}.")
question = input("Would you like to restart? (Y/N): ")
if question == ("Y", "y"):
     love_calc
elif question == ( "N", "n",): 
    print ("Thank you for playing!")
else:
    print("Not a valid response!")

Ive been learning Python for about 8 months. Im comfortable with Flask, basic OOP, and making API calls. But I keep seeing job postings that ask for SQL experience. I know the absolute basics like SELECT, INSERT, and simple JOINs. I can use sqlite3 in Python to run queries. But Ive never worked with PostgreSQL in production or designed complex database schemas from scratch. Should I pause my Python learning and spend a few weeks really drilling SQL? Or can I learn it on the job as long as I understand the fundamentals? I dont want to waste time if most places just use ORMs anyway. What level of SQL is actually expected from a junior?

Can someone tell me how or where should I start learning the libraries of Python NUMPY, PANDAS, MATPLOTLIB, SCIKITLEARN, etc.

If someone have idea of these and good courses or books please suggest me

And a good path to learn it.

I'm wondering what is the nearest way to store reference data variables (constants) in a project.

I think loading them from file or environment variables is a bit of an overhead with the file open etc.

I'm thinking of putting them in a separate .py file then importing them.

Even then I'm not sure whether to import (when required) at the top of each code file, or within each function that uses one.

Note I am just a hobby coder and not a pro within a large team.

What is the cleanest approach?

EDIT: It was interference from RAS. Removing RAS solved the problem, but I still need to figure out a way to use both.

I am trying to create a fastapi/uvicorn server, but I can't access it remotely. I have already set the host to '0.0.0.0' and I've already allowed it through my firewall. It works absolutely fine when accessed from localhost, but all external requests, from lan and wan, time out. I am using Windows Server 2025.

run(
    app = 'API.app:app',
    host = '0.0.0.0',
    port = 8000,
    workers = (None if VERBOSE else 2),
    ssl_certfile = this.file('certificates/cert').path,
    ssl_keyfile = this.file('certificates/key').path,
    log_level = "critical"
)

class CustomMiddleware(BaseHTTPMiddleware):

    def _log(self,
        request: Request, 
        status: str
    ) -> None:
        
        params = parse_qs(request.url.query)

        for name in params:
            if 'password' in name:
                params[name] = '***'

        Log.INFO(f"""
 HOST  = {request.client.host}
 PATH  = {request.url.path}
PARAMS = {params}
METHOD = {request.method}
STATUS = {status}
""")
    
    async def dispatch(self, 
        request: Request, 
        call_next
    ):

        self._log(request, '...')

        # Process the request
        response = await call_next(request)

        # Add the allow-all-origins header directly to the response
        response.headers["Access-Control-Allow-Origin"] = "*"
        response.headers["Access-Control-Allow-Methods"] = "*"
        response.headers["Access-Control-Allow-Headers"] = "*"

        self._log(request, response.status_code)

        return response
    
    async def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        try:
            await super().__call__(*args, **kwargs)
        except Exception as e:
            Log.FAIL(str(e))

app.add_middleware(CustomMiddleware)

EDIT: I just tried disabling firewall altogether and it still didn't work. It shouldn't be any port forwarding issue, though. The server is a DMZ host, and lan doesn't work. I even changed the port for all clients and server to 8100 and it still didn't work.

My browsers gave this info:

Localhost:

"timings": {
          "blocked": 0,
          "dns": 0,
          "connect": 0,
          "ssl": 5,
          "send": 0,
          "wait": 1211,
          "receive": 20
}

LAN Client:

"timings": {
          "blocked": 0,
          "dns": 1,
          "connect": 0,
          "ssl": 0,
          "send": 0,
          "wait": 0,
          "receive": 
}

I ve made a small app for learning Python on Android , I would be happy if someone of you can use it and share the honest opinion if app is helpful for you. ✨

BrainAcademy: Learn Python on play store

I saw Python Installer Manager in the official website but it seems only can be installed to user directory. I plan to install globally for all user. Is there any way to do that?

been learning Python for a while and decided to build something real instead of just following tutorials.

ended up building a voice controlled AI assistant.

here’s the stack and the problems i actually hit:

Stack:

∙	Vosk — offline speech recognition

∙	Google Gemini Live API — response generation

∙	edge-tts — voice output

What nearly broke me:

the STT → LLM → TTS pipeline latency. every layer works fine alone but chaining them together without lag is a completely different problem. spent weeks just on this. ended up building a custom audio queue to stop responses overlapping.

wake word accuracy was second biggest issue. Vosk misfires around 8-10% in noisy environments. considering Whisper but worried about the latency tradeoff.

Questions for this community:

∙	Vosk or Whisper for a latency-sensitive pipeline?

∙	better approach to audio queue management?

∙	any lightweight persistent memory solution worth trying?

still learning honestly — would love input from people who’ve tackled similar problems 👇

I am messing around with the python_weather package and I've got my program working the way I want it to but the output for weather.kind prints the words capitalized. I want the output to generate as 'partly cloudy' instead of 'Partly Cloudy' but nothing I do seems to change the output.

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pessoa eu estou estudando Python porem estudo de varias fontes diferentes, videos, livros ,sites.

queria saber se isso atrapalha, se tenho q escolher uma unica fonte e focar nela e nao me perder em varias ao mesmo tempo.

e se vc conhecem um bom curso de Python tipo na udemy ou outra plataformas q seja em conta.

e tbm aceito dicas de estudo pra nao se perder em tutoriais infinito.

Hey currently I'm learning python I learned till like OOP and was able to make simple programs and things like that and the main reason I'm learning python is for ethical hacking and I started the black hat python book which is really great im in the python networking chapter. so what I wanted to ask is that is this like the correct way or order or should I learn other things in python before jumping to the black hat python book? I appreciate all the advice I can get. thank you.

Hey guys , I want to start learning Python but I don't know from where to start. Do you have an idea or a free website where I can actually learn python in stages and then after each small lesson to make a quiz or a practical test.. I feel like for me that's the best way to learn faster and to be productive.

Thank you

Does anyone know why there are so many generic youtube programming channels with the same AI generated thumbnails, long boring videos and constantly promoting expensive websites? It is so hard to tell if one is genuine or not :(

Been working on a voice AI assistant for a few months as a self-taught developer from India. Here’s the stack I landed on and the problems I ran into — curious what fellow Indian devs would change.

Stack:

∙	Vosk for offline STT

∙	Google Gemini Live API for response generation

∙	edge-tts for voice output

Problems I actually faced:

Biggest one was pipeline latency. Getting Vosk transcription → Gemini response → edge-tts playback to feel natural under 2 seconds was harder than expected. Ended up building a custom queue to prevent audio overlap.

Second was wake word accuracy. Vosk misfires around 8-10% of the time in noisy environments. Considering switching to Whisper but worried about latency tradeoff.

Genuine questions for this community:

∙	Would you swap Vosk for Whisper despite the latency hit?

∙	Any better approach to t he audio queue problem?

∙	Is there a lightweight persistent memory solution worth trying?

Building this solo from India with no mentor or team — would genuinely appreciate input from experienced devs here. 👇