Python Piedmont Triad User Group: PYPTUG Monthly meeting June 28 2016...
Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (June 28th 2016) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed...
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 ArticlePython 4 Kids: Python for Kids: Python 3 – Project 5
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 ArticleWeekly Python Chat: Python Variable Scope
Ever wondered why creating global variables is so tricky? Why does it seem like changing variables just works sometimes but other times it doesn't?We'll answer those questions and a couple others in...
View ArticleFilipe Saraiva: My LaKademy 2016
LaKademy 2016 group photoIn the end of May, ~20 gearheads from different countries of Latin America were together in Rio de Janeiro working in several fronts of the KDE. This is our ‘multiple projects...
View ArticleCaktus Consulting Group: Query Expressions are Amazing
The Django 1.8 release added support for complex query expressions. The documentation has some nice examples but they don't do justice to how crazy awesome these are. In this post, we will go through...
View ArticleTryton News: Neso retirement
It was decided to stop the development of Neso, our standalone client/server. So the last working version of neso will be 3.8.2. See issue5642 for more details.
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Amber Brown
This week we welcome Amber Brown (@hawkieowl) as our PyDev of the Week. Amber is one of the core developers of the Twisted package. She has a fun little twisted blog that you might enjoy checking out....
View ArticleDoug Hellmann: pwd — UNIX Password Database — PyMOTW 3
The pwd module can be used to read user information from the UNIX password database (usually /etc/passwd ). The read-only interface returns tuple-like objects with named attributes for the standard...
View ArticleEuroPython: EuroPython 2016: Conference Dinner and Party
We all know that good food, drinks and music are essential for a perfect EuroPython conference and so we’ve arranged a nice dinner with local food and a party for Tuesday evening (July 19th).EuroPython...
View ArticleReal Python: Testing Third-Party APIs with Mocks
The following tutorial demonstrates how to test the use of an external API using Python mock objects.Integrating with a third-party application is a great way to extend the functionality of your...
View ArticlePython Engineering at Microsoft: Python and Django on Nano Server
This post is contributed by Refaat Issa from the Nano Server team, and was originally posted on their blog. Nano Server has also blogged about their support for MySQL and Node.js.One of Nano Server’s...
View ArticleIan Ozsvald: Results for “Which version of Python (2.x vs 3.x) do...
Over the last week I’ve surveyed my PyDataLondon meetup community (3,400+ members) to ask “Which version of Python do you use at work and at home?”. The goal is to gain evidence about which versions of...
View ArticleS. Lott: Why Python? (Sad Follow-up)
In "Why Python?" I linked to a deep and sophisticated analysis of programming languages. Anyway, I thought it was a deep and sophisticated analysis.I got a reply that shows how wrong I was. Here's the...
View ArticleZato Blog: Announcing forum.zato.io
As of today, the mailing list used by Zato has been retired in favour of the new forum that will let us provide a great community experience.All of the contents of the mailing list has been already...
View ArticleEnthought: AAPG 2016 Conference Technical Presentation: Unlocking Whole Core...
Microscale Imaging for Unconventional Plays Track Technical Presentation: Unlocking Whole Core CT Data for Advanced Description and Analysis American Association of Petroleum Geophysicists (AAPG) 2016...
View ArticleDjango Weblog: Django 1.10 beta 1 released
As part of the Django 1.10 release process, today we've released Django 1.10 beta 1, a preview/testing package that represents the second stage in the 1.10 release cycle and an opportunity for you to...
View ArticleEuroPython: EuroPython 2016 Conference App
We are proud to announce our very own mobile app for the EuroPython 2016 conference:EuroPython 2016 Conference AppEngage with the conference and its attendeesThe mobile app gives you access to the...
View ArticleCatalin George Festila: Scrapy python module - part 001.
To install pip under python 2.7.8, securely download get-pip.py into Python27 folder.Use this command:C:\Python27\python.exe get-pip.py...C:\Python27\Scripts>pip2.7.exe install urllib3...
View ArticleCatalin George Festila: PySide - Introduction - part 002.
First, PySide itself is licensed under LGPLv2.1, most of the examples are licensed under GPLv2.After importing PySide then you can see all PySide python submodule:>>> import PySide>>>...
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