Will McGugan: Serving a Customized Site with Moya
This SO post prompted me to think about how you would go about customizing a entire Django site (not just an app). Particularly if it is a third party project, still in development.Forking the site...
View ArticleWeekly Python Chat: Contributing to open source
Are you interested in contributing to open source projects but don't know where to start? Join this chat and tell us your story!Katie McLaughlin and I will be chatting about different ways you can get...
View ArticleFull Stack Python: Python for Entrepreneurs
Python for Entrepreneurs is a new video course by the creators of Talk Python to Me and Full Stack Python.We are creating this course and running a Kickstarter for it based on feedback that it's still...
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Mike Driscoll: A Simple Intro to Web Scraping with Python
Web scraping is where a programmer will write an application to download web pages and parse out specific information from them. Usually when you are scraping data you will need to make your...
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Ruslan Spivak: Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter. Part 10.
Today we will continue closing the gap between where we are right now and where we want to be: a fully functional interpreter for a subset of Pascal programming language.In this article we will update...
View ArticleNed Batchelder: Breaking out of two loops
A common question is, how do I break out of two nested loops at once? For example, how can I examine pairs of characters in a string, stopping when I find an equal pair? The classic way to do this is...
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Philip Semanchuk: ♡s to PyOhio
To conference volunteers too numerous to mentionTo Jason, Eric, and Jan for their hospitality which helped me to feel at home away from homeTo Oscar the AirBnB cat for headbutting me affectionately and...
View ArticleImport Python: Launched Django Weekly
I have been told again and again that as a curator of importpython I including way too many Django articles. Today I am happy to announce DjangoWeekly dedicated completely to Django. Subscribe and let...
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Simon: datetime vs Arrow vs Pendulum vs Delorean vs udatetime
The big alternatives to Python datetime all share similar goals. These goals are ease of use, simplicity and intelligent/user friendly API design. Awesome goals and I love those libraries for investing...
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Python Engineering at Microsoft: Upgrading Python on Azure App Service
App Service is Microsoft Azure‘s platform-as-a-service offering for web apps, whether they are sites accessed through a browser, REST APIs used by your own clients, or event-triggered processing. Many...
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Spyder IDE: Qt Charts (PyQt5.QtChart) as (Py)Qwt replacement
I've just discovered an interesting alternative to PyQwt for plotting curves efficiently. That is Qt Charts, a module of Qt which exists at least since 2012 according to PyQtChart changelog (PyQtChart...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #70 Pythonic cover songs at Loudr
Some of the best songs are cover songs of popular music. If you're a musician who wants to create a cover song and actually sell it, you'll be diving deep into complex agreements and legal agreements...
View ArticleMarcos Dione: our-man-in-marseille
Remember this?For a few months now I've been trying to have a random slideshow of images. I used to do this either with kscreensaver, which for completely different reasons I can't use now, or...
View ArticleNikola: Nikola v7.7.12 is out!
On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.7.12. It fixes some bugs and adds new features.What is Nikola?Nikola is a static site and blog generator,...
View ArticleJamal Moir: [Video Series] Taking Your Python Skills to the Next Level With...
This is the 3rd in a series covering Pythonic code written by Michael Kennedy of Talk Python To Me. Be sure to catch the whole series with 5 powerful Pythonic recommendations and over 45 minutes of...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (xxxi) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2016-08-05 19:27:37 GMTHow to make this Block of python code short and...
View ArticleDoing Math with Python: PyCon Australia 2016 Education Seminar: Doing Math...
Hello everyone, I will be speaking at the PyCon AU education seminar coming August 12, 2016 at Melbourne, Australia (3.00 - 3.40 PM).I have put up my in progress slides (PDF) and the demos as Jupyter...
View ArticleNick Coghlan: What problem does it solve?
One of the more puzzling aspects of Python for newcomers to the language is the stark usability differences between the standard library's urllib module and the popular (and well-recommended) third...
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Podcast.__init__: Episode 69 - PyCon Canada with Francis Deslauriers and...
SummaryAside from the national Python conferences such as PyCon US and EuroPyCon there are a number of regional conferences that operate at a smaller scale to service their local communities. This week...
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Philip Semanchuk: Creating PDF Documents Using LibreOffice and Python
This post is a supplement to a talk I’m giving at PyOhio about using Python to create PDFs “the lazy way”. It’s the first of a series on this subject which is a bit too big for just one blog post.In...
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