Weekly Python Chat: How Python For Loops Work
Python's for loops are powerful but a little opaque.During this chat we'll review Python's for loops, compare them to loops in other languages, and discuss how and why Python does things...
View ArticleMike C. Fletcher: nVidia, package cudnn for Ubuntu already
It's half-way through 2016 and to get Tensor Flow installed on Ubuntu 16.04 one has to register for an nVidia developer's program? Here's a hint, current LTS for Ubuntu installing a widely-used AI...
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Python Software Foundation: Our 2016 PSF Board of Directors
The PSF's annual election completed yesterday. Please welcome the new PSF Board of Directors for the 2016/17 term!Annapoornima Koppad Carol WillingCarrie Ann PhilbinDiana Clarke Jackie KazilKushal...
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Automating OSINT: Expanding Skype Forensics With OSINT: IP Addresses
In the first part of this series we covered how to extract email accounts from SQLite databases and pull additional information from FullContact.com to find social media accounts or other online...
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The Digital Cat: Punch - Update your version while having a drink
So you completed your wonderful new project, all your test are successful (you test code, don't you?) and you just want to ship the new version and call it a day. Well, you just have to go and change...
View ArticleCodementor: How to Host your Python Package on PyPI with GitHub
Host your python package using github on PyPIPyPI is the official Python Packages Index. Once you publish it on PyPI, then it can be downloaded via a simple command pip install <package>. Life...
View ArticleNicola Iarocci: Cerberus 1.0 is coming and it is going to be awesome
Cerberus is a lightweight and extensible data validation library for Python. Beta has been around since 2012. During this time Cerberus has been serving as the validation system for Eve core. It has...
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Anarcat: (Still) working too much on the computer
I have been using Workrave to try to force me to step away from the computer regularly to work around Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) issues that have plagued my life on the computer intermittently in...
View ArticleThomas Ballinger's Blog: Finding closure with closures
This is a presentation I gave at PyCon 2016. I haven’t published the slides, but you can watch the video here.A friend of mine was asked what a closure was at a programming interview a few years ago....
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Vasudev Ram: The many uses of randomness
By Vasudev RamDice image attributionComputer random number generators (RNGs) [1] have many uses. In a programming class I was teaching recently, a participant was surprised by a certain usage of random...
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Carl Chenet: My Free Activities in May 2015
Follow me also on Diaspora* or Twitter Trying to catch up with my blog posts about My Free Activities. This blog post will tell you about my free activities from January to May 2016. 1. Personal...
View ArticleAnatoly Techtonik: Why Roundup needs a router?
http://bugs.python.org/ is powered by ancient software. Most people nowadays won't install it. They would rather find something newer, with more features (consumers) or invent something from scratch...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #62 San Diego Technology Immersion Group Learns Python
What's it like to learn Python? Yes, some of you may have just picked up the language while others have lived and breathed it for years. Either way, you may have some hindsight bias towards the...
View ArticleS. Lott: Why rewrite a shell script in Python?
Here's the actual quote:Why would you need to rewrite a working script in python ? Was there any business direction towards this ?This was an unexpected response. And unwelcome. I guess I called their...
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John Cook: Chi-square goodness of fit test example with primes
Yesterday Brian Hayes wrote a post about the distribution of primes. He showed how you could take the remainder when primes are divided by 7 and produce something that looks like rolls of six-sided...
View Article"Menno's Musings": IMAPClient mailing list moved to Groups.io
The IMAPClient mailing list has been hosted at Librelist for a while. It worked OK initially but the site doesn't seem to be getting much love these days. People also tend to find the "send an email to...
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Python Software Foundation: PyCon 2016: A look back, my take away, and thank...
Portland, Oregon photo credit: A. Jesse Jiryu DavisA quick look back at PyCon 2016 I am writing this during my flight home to Chicago as I reminisce about PyCon, which officially ended yesterday in...
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Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python lambda expressions unleashed
Carl Kadie, Ph.D., is a research developer in Microsoft Research/TnR working on Genomics.Lambda expressions provide a way to pass functionality into a function. Sadly, Python puts two annoying...
View ArticleWeekly Python Chat: Emoji: Why and How I Use It
What's the big deal with emoji? Why do people use it?Let's talk about the emoji phenomenon and whether this is a trending fad.I'll also talk about the ways I use emoji in my own communication and the...
View ArticleControl F'd: Painless live data visualizations
Behold, a live visualization of the active content on the various StackExchange communites.
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