Vasudev Ram: The many uses of randomness - Part 2
By Vasudev RamDenarius image attributionHi, readers,In my previous (and first) post on randomness, titled:The many uses of randomness , I had described some uses of random numbers related to floats,...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Ben Bangert
This week we welcome Ben Bangert as our PyDev of the Week! Ben is the mastermind behind the Pylons project, which was a web framework in Python. It is now known as Pyramid. If you have a moment or two,...
View ArticleDoug Hellmann: shlex — Parse Shell-style Syntaxes — PyMOTW 3
The shlex module implements a class for parsing simple shell-like syntaxes. It can be used for writing a domain-specific language, or for parsing quoted strings (a task that is more complex than it...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: collective.recipe.sphinxbuilder buildout recipe works on...
I wanted to do a few small tweaks on collective.recipe.sphinxbuilder because it failed to install on python 3. I ended up as maintainer :-) It is now at...
View ArticleWesley Chun: Exporting a Google Sheet spreadsheet as CSV
IntroductionToday, we'll follow-up to my earlier post on the Google Sheets API and multiple posts (first, second, third) on the Google Drive API by answering one common question: How do you download a...
View ArticleContinuum Analytics News: Anaconda 4.1 Released
Developer BlogPostedMonday, July 11, 2016Dr. Ilan SchnellAnaconda_stacked_RGB.pngWe are happy to announce that Anaconda 4.1 has been released. Anaconda is the leading open data science platform powered...
View ArticleWeekly Python Chat: Live DjangoCon Chat
If you're a Django developer who has never been to DjangoCon, join this chat to find out what DjangoCon is like so you can decide whether to go next year.I'll be broadcasting live from DjangoCon,...
View ArticleYasoob Khalid: 400+ Free Resources for DevOps & Sysadmins
As an Python advocate and educator, I’m always looking for ways to make my job (and yours) easier. This list put together by Morpheus Data offers a ton of great resources for Python users (more than 25...
View ArticlePyCharm: Webinar Recording: 10 Tips for Pythonic Code
The recording of our July 6th webinar, 10 Tips for Pythonic Code with Michael Kennedy, is now available on the JetBrains YouTube Channel. Michael’s code used in the recording along with the script for...
View ArticleDataCamp: Free Kaggle Machine Learning Tutorial for Python
AlwaysAlways wanted to compete in a Kaggle competition, but not sure where to get started? Together with the team at Kaggle, we have developed a free interactive Machine Learning tutorial in Python...
View ArticlePython Insider: Python 3.6.0 alpha 3 preview release is now available
Python 3.6.0a3 has been released. 3.6.0a3 is the third of four planned alpha pre-releases of Python 3.6, the next major release of Python. During the alpha phase, Python 3.6 remains under heavy...
View ArticleKushal Das: Event report: Fedora 24 release party Pune
Last Saturday we had the Fedora 24 release party in Pune. This was actually done along with our regular Fedora meetup, and in the same location. We had a few new faces this time. But most of the...
View ArticleS. Lott: Getting Rid of the Gang-of-Four Design Patterns is Nonsense
Someone found Yet Another Post (YAP™) insisting that the Gang of Four (GOF™) patterns were on their last legs. The email was misleading, because this is not precisely what the article said. The...
View Articlequtebrowser development blog: Day 7: Fixing things
Handling callbacksI did a small experiment today, trying to make it easier to use QtWebEngine functions which expect a callback, like QWebEnginePage::runJavaScript.Normally, you'd call such a function...
View Articlequtebrowser development blog: Day 8: More fixing and pytest sprint/training
(This blog post is actually a day late as I was busy packing for the pytest sprint yesterday)Not too much exciting stuff this time - I mostly continued working on getting basic stuff like scrolling and...
View ArticleMachinalis: A day with mypy: Part 2
This is the second part of a 3-part post about my experiences using mypy to add type information to a real world open source project (I chose pycodestyle). I recommend you to read at list the first...
View ArticleA. Jesse Jiryu Davis: "500 Lines or Less" Published Today
In this new book in the Architecture of Open Source Applications series, experienced programmers solve interesting problems in 500 lines of example code or less. Guido van Rossum and I contributed a...
View Articletryexceptpass: A Python ate my GUI — Part 2
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View ArticleYasoob Khalid: Support me on Patreon
Hi there folks! I have been writing regular blog-posts since 2013. I have been documenting my Python journey since then. Almost every new thing which I learn finds it’s way to the blog.I haven’t only...
View ArticleContinuum Analytics News: The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Grant for...
Developer BlogPostedThursday, July 14, 2016Travis Oliphant Chief Executive Officer & Co-FounderI am thrilled to announce that the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has provided a significant grant...
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