Peter Bengtsson: Time to do concurrent CPU bound work
Did you see my blog post about Decorated Concurrency - Python multiprocessing made really really easy? If not, fear not. There, I'm demonstrating how I take a task of creating 100 thumbnails from a...
View ArticleHolger Peters: Using pyenv and tox
I usually use pyenv to manage my Python interpreters and obtain them in whatever version I need. Another tool I occasionally use is tox by Holger Krekel, which nicely generates build matrices for...
View ArticlePodcast.__init__: Episode 57 - Buildbot with Pierre Tardy
Visit our site to listen to past episodes, support the show, join our community, and sign up for our mailing list.SummaryAs technology professionals, we need to make sure that the software we write is...
View ArticleDataCamp: Free Kaggle Machine Learning Tutorial for Python
AlwaysAlways wanted to compete in a Kaggle competition, but not sure where to get started? Together with the team at Kaggle, we have developed a free interactive Machine Learning tutorial in Python...
View ArticleAnarcat: Long delays posting Debian Planet Venus
For the last few months, it seems that my posts haven't been reaching the aggregator correctly. I timed the last two posts and they both arrived roughly 10 days late in the feed.At first, I suspected I...
View ArticleJamal Moir: An Introduction to Scientific Python (and a Bit of the Maths...
Oh the amazing things you can do with Numpy.NumPy is a blazing fast maths library for Python with a heavy emphasis on arrays. It allows you to do vector and matrix maths within Python and as a lot of...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (xix) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2016-05-15 09:55:41 GMTChoice made by Python 3.5 to choose the keys when...
View ArticleGiampaolo Rodola: psutil 4.2.0, Windows services and Python
New psutil 4.2.0 is out. The main feature of this release is the support for Windows services: >>> import psutil>>>...
View ArticlePython 4 Kids: Python for Kids: Python 3 – Project 4
DisclaimerSome people want to use my book Python for Kids for Dummies to learn Python 3. I am working through the code in the existing book, highlighting changes from Python 2 to Python 3 and providing...
View ArticlePython 4 Kids: Python for Kids Book: Project 5
In these posts I outline the contents of each project in my book Python For Kids For Dummies. If you have questions or comments about the project listed in the title post them here. Any improvements...
View ArticleJonathan Hartley: Rhythmbox plugin: “Announce”
I use the Linux music player “Rhythmbox”. This morning I wrote a plugin for it, called “Announce”:https://github.com/tartley/rhythmbox-plugin-announceEvery time a new song starts to play, it announces...
View ArticleCaktus Consulting Group: Mark Lavin to Give Keynote at Python Nordeste
Mark Lavin will be giving the keynote address at Python Nordeste this year. Python Nordeste is the largest gathering of the Northeast Python community, which takes place annually in cities of...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Ed Leafe
This week we welcome Ed Leafe (@EdLeafe) as our PyDev of the Week! Ed is one of the co-creators of the Dabo Application Framework, which is a neat wrapper around wxPython and is aimed at building...
View ArticleDoug Hellmann: sys — System-specific Configuration — PyMOTW 3
The sys module includes a collection of services for probing or changing the configuration of the interpreter at runtime and resources for interacting with the operating environment outside of the...
View ArticleIan Ozsvald: Statistically Solving Sneezes and Sniffles – a Work in...
This is a Work in Progress report, presented this morning at my PyDataLondon 2016 conference. A group of 4 of us are modelling a year’s worth of self-reported data from my wife around her allergies –...
View ArticleYann Larrivée: ConFoo Vancouver: Call for Papers is open
ConFoo Vancouver: December 5th-7th 2016We are happy to open the call for papers of ConFoo Vancouver 2016! If you are interested in speaking about web development and related topics, please submit until...
View ArticleData School: Top 8 resources for learning data analysis with pandas
I recently launched a video series about "pandas", a popular Python library for data analysis, manipulation, and visualization. But for those of you who want to learn pandas and prefer the written...
View ArticleGuido van Rossum: The AnyStr type variable
The AnyStr type variable I was drafting a blog post on how to add type annotations for the new __fspath__() protocol (PEP 519) when I realized that I should write a separate post about AnyStr . So here...
View ArticleChris Moffitt: Sharing Your Python Case Studies
IntroductionI would like to offer this blog as platform for people to share their success stories with python. Over the past couple of weeks, I have had a handful of conversations related to the topic...
View ArticleEuroPython: EuroPython 2016 Keynote: Nicholas Tollervey
We are pleased to introduce our first keynote speaker for EuroPython 2016: Nicholas Tollervey.About Nicholas TollerveyNicholas is a classically trained musician, philosophy graduate, teacher, author...
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