Peter Bengtsson: hashin 0.5.0 bug fix
Thank you @davehunt for finding a ugly bug in in hashin. The bug happened when you tried to add a package that had a similar name to a package that was already in your requirements.txt. By similar...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 101: How to timeout a subprocess
The other day I ran into a use case where I needed to communicate with a subprocess I had started but I needed it to timeout. Unfortunately, Python 2 does not have a way to timeout the communicate...
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Python Software Foundation: Python and Open Source Alive and Well in Havana,...
I recently had the amazing opportunity to travel to Havana, Cuba to attend several free software events. My partner, David Mertz, was invited to talk at a meet-up of open-software developers and to...
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Python Insider: Python 3.6.0 alpha 1 preview release is now available
Python 3.6.0a1 has been released. 3.6.0a1 is the first of four planned alpha releases of Python 3.6, the next major release of Python. During the alpha phase, Python 3.6 remains under heavy...
View ArticleMontreal Python User Group: Meals-on-wheel Hacknight
Join us on May 26th and contribute to new management platform of Santropol Roulant. They need our help to get a better tools to manage and deliver food to people with disabilities and difficulties.This...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #59 SageMath - Open source is ready to compete in the...
What do you do when you are a high caliber mathematician or scientist and you want share your algorithms and code? This sounds like a job for github, but the problem is often this work is done on...
View ArticleGuido van Rossum: Adding type annotations for fspath
Type annotations for fspathPython 3.6 will have a new dunder protocol, __fspath__() , which should be supported by classes that represent filesystem paths. Example of such classes are the pathlib.Path...
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Python Anywhere: Today's upgrade - postgres price drop, mysql scaling...
Nothing earth-shattering to report today, but some good news:Postgres is cheaperIt's been over a year since we first tentatively launched our postgres service, and we've found that we're able to...
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Twisted Matrix Labs: Twisted 16.2 Released
On behalf of Twisted Matrix Laboratories, I am honoured to announce the release of Twisted 16.2!Just in time for PyCon US, this release brings a few headlining features (like the haproxy endpoint) and...
View ArticleGuido van Rossum: Union syntax
Union syntax(I'm trying to do this as a quick post in response to some questions I received on this topic. I realize this will probably reopen the whole discussion about the best syntax for types, but...
View ArticleObey the Testing Goat: Coaches needed for Python Bootcamp @ Pycon US in...
Coming to Pycon? Want to help some beginners to get to grips with Python, and get the most out of the conference? I need your help!Having observed the surprising number of beginners to be found at...
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Python Software Foundation: CubaConf, Day 1
This is the second in a series of posts on my trip in April to Havana, Cuba to attend CubaConf, an International Conference on Free Software. Day one of CubaConf started out with a bit of confusion. A...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 3: An Intro to Encryption
Python 3 doesn’t have very much in its standard library that deals with encryption. Instead, you get hashing libraries. We’ll take a brief look at those in the chapter, but the primary focus will be on...
View ArticleHynek Schlawack: Conditional Python Dependencies
Since the inception of wheels that install Python packages without executing arbitrary code, we need a static way to encode conditional dependencies for our packages. Thanks to PEP 508 we do have a...
View ArticlePyCon: Childcare spots are still available for PyCon 2016!
A venue as exciting as the city of Montréal in 2014–15 and now Portland in 2016–17 often tempts attendees with children to want to go ahead and bring them along, turning what could have been simply a...
View Articlehypothesis.works articles: Announcing Hypothesis Legacy Support
For a brief period, Python 2.6 was supported in Hypothesis for Python. Because Python 2.6 has been end of lifed for some time, I decided this wasn’t a priority and support was dropped in Hypothesis...
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Python Software Foundation: Brett Cannon wins Frank Willison Award
This morning at OSCON, O'Reilly Media gave Brett Cannon the Frank Willison Memorial Award. The award recognizes Cannon's contributions to CPython as a core developer and project manager for over a...
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Import Python: ImportPython Issue 73
Worthy Read150x Faster SQL Analysis Get up to 150x faster queries with Periscope’s caching system.SponsorPython 3: An Intro to Encryptionpython3,encryptionPython 3 doesn’t have very much in its...
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PythonClub - A Brazilian collaborative blog about Python: Python com...
Fala pessoal, tudo bem?Na terceira parte deste tutorial, aprendemos a usar o Coveralls para gerar relatórios de testes para o nosso projeto. A próxima ferramenta que iremos estudar será o serviço...
View ArticleVasudev Ram: i18nify any word with this Python utility
By Vasudev RamI18NifyWhile I was browsing some web pages, reading a word triggered a chain of thoughts. The word had to do with internationalization (often shortened to i18n by developers, because...
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