Richard Jones: PyCon Australia 2016: Registration Opens!
We are delighted to announce that online registration is now open for PyCon Australia 2016. The seventh PyCon Australia is being held in Melbourne, Victoria from August 12th – 16th at the Melbourne...
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Evennia: Evennia 0.6 !
As of today, I merged the development branch to make version 0.6 of the MU* development system and server Evennia. Evennia 0.6 comes with a lot of updates, mainly in the way Evennia talks to the...
View ArticleGraeme Cross: PyCon AU 2016 registrations are open!
Online registration is now open for PyCon Australia 2016, including for the Science and Data miniconference.The seventh PyCon Australia is being held in Melbourne, Victoria from August 12th – 16th at...
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Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Wesley Chun
This week we welcome Wesley Chun as our PyDev of the Week! Wesley Chun, MSCS, is author of Prentice Hall’s bestselling “Core Python” series (corepython.com), the “Python Fundamentals” companion videos,...
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Doug Hellmann: bisect — Maintain Lists in Sorted Order — PyMOTW 3
The bisect module implements an algorithm for inserting elements into a list while maintaining the list in sorted order. Read more… This post is part of the Python Module of the Week series for Python...
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PyCharm: PyCharm 2016.1.4 RC is Available
Today we announce the PyCharm 2016.1.4 Release Candidate build #145.1503. The list of bug fixes and improvements for this build can be found in the release notes.Some highlights of the PyCharm 2016.1.4...
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Trey Hunner: Weekly Python Chat: Live From PyCon
TL;DR: If you’ve never been to PyCon and are curious what the big deal is about, sign up for the PyCon Day 1 live chat and PyCon Sprints live chat.I have been holding live webcasts every week for...
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Kushal Das: dgplug summer training student Tosin Damilare James Animashaun
Your name (blog/twitter) and what do you doMy name is Tosin Damilare James Animashaun (IRC: acetakwas; Twitter: @acetakwas; Github: github.com/takwas, Blog: takwas.github.io).I am currently a part-time...
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Davy Wybiral: Quantum Circuit Simulator
All I wanted for Christmas was a quantum circuit simulator. So I wrote one in Javascript using NumericJS.Check it out:http://www.davyw.com/quantumFor a good "Hello world" circuit, here's the diagram...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #60 Scaling Python to 1000's of cores with Ufora
You've heard me talk previously about scaling Python and Python performance on this show. But on this episode I'm bringing you a very interesting project pushing the upper bound of Python performance...
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EuroPython: EuroPython 2016 Keynote: Rachel Willmer
We are pleased to announce our third keynote speaker for EuroPython 2016: Rachel Willmer.About Rachel WillmerRachel has been working at the “bleeding edge” of technology for 30 years, as programmer,...
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Mike Driscoll: Python 101: An Intro to Benchmarking your code
What does it mean to benchmark ones code? The main idea behind benchmarking or profiling is to figure out how fast your code executes and where the bottlenecks are. The main reason to do this sort of...
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Real Python: Getting Started with the Slack API using Python and Flask
The slick hosted chat application Slack is all the rage this year. The tool’s adoption isn’t empty hype – it’s incredibly useful for communicating with and learning from fellow developers. For example,...
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Mahmoud Hashemi: Managing Python Ecosystems
You know that old quote:The wider the net you cast, the wider the variety you catch.Was it a wise old fisherman? Or a dogged Python programmer? Either way, words don't come much truer than those.Few,...
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Carl Chenet: Tweet your database with db2twitter
Follow me also on Diaspora* or Twitter You have a database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, see supported database types), a tweet pattern and wants to automatically tweet on a regular basis? No need for RSS,...
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Filipe Saraiva: if (LaKademy 2016) goto Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, the “Cidade Maravilhosa”, land of the eternal Summer. The sunlight here is always clear and hot, the sea is refreshing, the sand is comfortable. The people is happy, Rio de Janeiro has...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 201 – super
I’ve written about super briefly in the past, but decided to take another go at writing something more interesting about this particular Python function.The super built-in function was introduced way...
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PyCharm: Python Developers Survey 2016: Findings
Recently we conducted a survey among more than 1,000 Python developers to identify the latest trends and gain insight into how the Python development world looks today. We’re excited to share some of...
View ArticlePython Engineering at Microsoft: Microsoft at PyCon US 2016
This coming weekend is the start of PyCon US 2016 in Portland, USA. And as usual, we’ve sponsored the conference and will be bringing some of our engineering team. Here’s where you’ll be able to find...
View ArticleDoing Math with Python: PyCon Education Summit Talk
Hi everyone, I have uploaded the slides for my upcoming talk at the PyCon Education Summit. If you are coming to the talk, feel free to have a look at the slides and have any questions/comments ready...
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