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Davy Wybiral: Procedural trees with Javascript
Here's another quick web experiment, this time exploring the use of particle systems to generate art.You can watch it generate a random forest live here:...
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Podcast.__init__: Episode 67 - Crossing The Streams - Talk Python with...
SummaryThe same week that we released our first episode of Podcast.__init__, Michael Kennedy was publishing the very first episode of Talk Python To Me. The years long drought of podcasts about Python...
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Michy Alice: Fluid Dynamics: Pressure Drop Modelling [heavily revised]
Some time ago I uploaded a short script on modelling pressure drop in a circular diameter pipe. While at the time I felt I did a good job, I knew there sure was room for improvement. After having...
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Vasudev Ram: Control break report to PDF with xtopdf
By Vasudev RamHi readers,Control break reports are very common in data processing, from the earliest days of computing until today. This is because they are a fundamental kind of report, the need for...
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Eli Bendersky: Drawing animated GIFs with matplotlib
This is a brief post on how to draw animated GIFs with Python using matplotlib. I tried the code shown here on a Ubuntu machine with ImageMagick installed. ImageMagick is required for matplotlib to...
View ArticleKracekumar Ramaraju: HTTP Exception as control flow
As per Wikipedia , Exception handling is the process of responding to the occurrence, during computation, of exceptions – anomalous or exceptional conditions requiring special processing – often...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (xxix) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2016-07-24 15:23:27 GMTWhy and how are Python functions hashable? -...
View ArticleIlian Iliev: SQLAlchemy and "Lost connection to MySQL server during...
... a weird behaviour when pool_recycle is ignoredPreface: This is quite a standard problem for apps/websites with low traffic or those using heavy caching and hitting the database quite seldom. Most...
View ArticleCaktus Consulting Group: ShipIt Day Recap - July 2016
We finished up last week with another successful ShipIt Day. ShipIt Days are quarterly events where we put down client work for a little bit and focus on learning, stretching ourselves, and sharing....
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Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Nicholas Tollervey
This week we welcome Nicholas Tollervey (@ntoll) as our PyDev of the Week. He is the author of the Python in Education booklet and the co-author of Learning jQuery Deferreds: Taming Callback Hell with...
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Doug Hellmann: threading — Manage Concurrent Operations — PyMOTW 3
Using threads allows a program to run multiple operations concurrently in the same process space. Read more… This post is part of the Python Module of the Week series for Python 3. See PyMOTW.com for...
View ArticleDjango Weblog: Registration for Django: Under the Hood 2016 is now open!
Django: Under the Hood is back for its third edition!DUTH is an annual Django conference that takes place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. On 3rd - 6th November this year, we're going to see 9 deep dive...
View ArticleRobin Wilson: Showing code changes when teaching
A key – but challenging – part of learning to program is moving from writing technically-correct code “that works” to writing high-quality code that is sensibly decomposed into functions,...
View ArticleGraham Dumpleton: Installing mod_wsgi on MacOS X with native operating system...
Operating systems inevitably change over time, and because writing documentation is often an after thought or developers have no time, the existing instructions on how to install a piece of software...
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Continuum Analytics News: Analyzing and Visualizing Big Data Interactively on...
Developer BlogPostedTuesday, July 26, 2016Jim BednarThe 2010 Census collected a variety of demographic information for all the more than 300 million people in the USA. A subset of this has been...
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Daniel Bader: How to use Python’s min() and max() with nested lists
How to use Python’s min() and max() with nested listsLet’s talk about using Python’s min and max functions on a list containing other lists. Sometimes this is referred to as a nested list or a lists of...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #69 Write an Excellent Programming Blog
Do you have a blog? How many articles have you written for it? Do you find it hard to keep writing or hard to get started doing technical writing? We might be able to help you out with that this week....
View ArticleS. Lott: Another Python to the Rescue Story -- Creating a DSL from Python...
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View ArticleDavid MacIver: It might be worth learning an ML-family language
It’s long been a popular opinion that learning Haskell or another ML-family language will make you a better programmer. I think this is probably true, but I think it’s an overly specific claim because...
View Articlequtebrowser development blog: qutebrowser v0.8.0 released
I'm happy to annouce the release of qutebrowser v0.8.0!qutebrowser is a keyboard driven browser with a vim-like, minimalistic interface. It's written using PyQt and cross-platform.The main reason for...
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