Invent with Python: "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" online...
For the last few months I've been putting together an online course that follows my latest (and free) book, "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python". You can sign up for free (until October 12th) with...
View ArticlePeter Bengtsson: Premailer 3.0.0 - classes kept by default
Today I released a new major version of premailer where the only difference is that one of the default options have changed from True to False. The git commit for this change might look big but the...
View ArticleKun Xi: Outage post-mortem: poisonous cookie
TL;DR: the standard Cookie library cannot handle the malformed cookie persisted by the 3rd party javascript library due to this bug, which fails our authentication system.Recently, the SurveyMonkey...
View ArticleS. Lott: Why Python? What's it good for? How is it special?
First. The question is moot. It's a programming language. It's good for programming.When I push back, folks try to produce languages which exist only in certain pigeon holes."You know. PHP is for web...
View ArticleZato Blog: Installing Zato from source code
While there had been always a plethora of options to install Zato with, under RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian or Docker, now a newly added chapter of the documentation explains how to install the...
View ArticleIan Ozsvald: Will we see “[module] on Python 3.4+ is free but only...
I’m curious about the transition in our ecosystem from Python 2 to Python 3. On stage at our monthly PyDataLondon meetups I’m known to badger folk to take the step and upgrade to reduce the support...
View ArticlePython Does What?!: imports of no import
The Python standard library has hundreds of built-in modules (mine has 688 by one count). Some are more useful than others.The most famous is "import this", which prints out the Zen of Python. The next...
View ArticleNicola Iarocci: Eve REST API Framework v0.6.4 now available
Quick note to let you all know that Eve v0.6.4 is out with a few significant updates. Thanks to James Stewart for contributing to this release. Work on v0.7, which will include MongoDB Aggregation...
View ArticleCaktus Consulting Group: What We’re Clicking - May Link Roundup
Below you can find this month’s roundup of articles and posts shared by Cakti that drew the most attention on Twitter. The list covers coding for matrix factorization algorithms in Python, designing...
View ArticleTim Golden: Teacher feedback wanted on NetworkZero
I recently released a Python package called NetworkZero. It makes it easy to add a bit of network sparkle to an existing application or to create a wholly network-based application. There is an...
View ArticlePyPy Development: PyPy2 v5.3 released - major C-extension support improvements
We have released PyPy2.7 v5.3, about six weeks after PyPy 5.1 and a week after PyPy3.3 v5.2 alpha 1, the first PyPy release targeting 3.3 compatibility. This new PyPy2.7 release includes major...
View ArticleConcrete Clouds: We have a PLAN0
I got 6 months of partly paid development of C4irp and then we decide if we continue. Things are happening. :-)I might be delayed because of last minute jobs, but I try to...
View Articlequtebrowser development blog: Day 3: Last pull requests and managing...
Managing requirement filesYesterday evening, I got side-tracked with another "small" side project which turned out to be a bit bigger.qutebrowser comes with requirement files which pin all dependencies...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python: An Intro to Regular Expressions
Regular expressions are basically a tiny language all their own that you can use inside of Python and many other programming languages. You will often hear regular expressions referred to as “regex”,...
View ArticleImport Python: ImportPython Issue 76 - Guido van Rossum Interview, Regex,...
Worthy ReadSimplify Your Analytics with Segment Segment is the customer data platform that developers and analysts love because of its elegant APIs and extensive partner ecosystem. Here is the Python...
View ArticleEmmanuel Leblond: The meta article - Warmup with lektor
This blog aims at writting about my experiences in programming, so what better start but to talk about my experience building this blog !First and foremost, show me the code.Hearing about Armin "flask"...
View ArticleWesley Chun: Simple Google API access from Python (part 1 of 2)
NOTE: You can also watch a video walkthrough of the common code covered in this blogpost here. IntroductionBack in 2012 when I published Core Python Applications Programming, 3rd ed., Iposted about how...
View ArticleEuroPython: EuroPython 2016 Keynotes
We are pleased to announce our keynote schedule for EuroPython 2016:Monday: Rachel Willmer& Nicholas TollerveyTuesday: Paul HildebrandtWednesday: Jameson RollinsThursday: Naomi CederFriday: Gaël...
View ArticleWesley Chun: Authorized Google API access from Python (part 2 of 2)
NOTE: You can also watch a video walkthrough of the common code covered in this blogpost here. UPDATE (Jun 2016): Updated to Python 2.7 & 3.3+ and Drive API v3.IntroductionIn this final installment...
View ArticleMarcos Dione: trace2csv
Remember this? Ok, maybe you never read that. The gist of the post is that I used strace -r -T to produce some logs that we «amassed[sic] [...] with a python script for generating[sic] a CSV file [...]...
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