Philip Semanchuk: Creating PDF Documents Using LibreOffice and Python, Part 2
This is part 2 of a 4-part series on creating PDFs using LibreOffice. You should read part 1 if you haven’t already. This series is a supplement to a talk I gave at PyOhio 2016.Here in part 2, I...
View ArticleJamal Moir: [Video Series] Taking Your Python Skills to the Next Level With...
This is the 4th 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...
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Programming Ideas With Jake: Instance-Level Properties in Python
Making Descriptors that act as specialized properties can be tricky, especially when it comes to storing the data the the property controls. I should know, I literally wrote the book. Looking at how...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (xxxii) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2016-08-13 06:53:16 GMTΟpposite of any() function - [29/4]Splitting a...
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Podcast.__init__: Episode 70 - Python on Windows with Steve Dower
SummaryIn order for Python to continue to attract new users, we need to have an easy way for people to get started with it, and Windows is still the most widely used operating system among computers....
View ArticleGlyph Lefkowitz: What’s In A Name
Amber’s excellent lightning talk on identity yesterday made me feel many feels, and reminded me of this excellent post by Patrick McKenzie about false assumptions regarding names.While that list is...
View ArticleMontreal Python User Group: Sous-Chef (Meals-on wheels) Final Sprint!
Join us on August 25th and contribute to the final sprint of Sous-chef, the new management platform of Santropol Roulant. They need our help to get the best tools to manage and deliver food to people...
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Python 4 Kids: Python for Kids Book: Project 6
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...
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Python 4 Kids: Python for Kids: Python 3 – Project 6
Using Python 3 in Project 6 of Python For Kids For DummiesIn this post I talk about the changes that need to be made to the code of Project 6 in order for it to work with Python 3. Most of the code in...
View ArticleGlyph Lefkowitz: Python Packaging Is Good Now
Okay folks. Time’s up. It’s too late to say that Python’s packaging ecosystem terrible any more. I’m calling it.Python packaging is not bad any more. If you’re a developer, and you’re trying to create...
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Andrew Dalke: Fragment chiral molecules in RDKit
In the previous essay, I showed that the simple fragmentation function doesn't preserve chiral after making a single cut. Here's the function definition: from rdkit import Chem # Only works correctly...
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Erik Marsja: Exploring response time distributions using Python
Inspired by my post for the JEPS Bulletin (Python programming in Psychology), where I try to show how Python can be used from collecting to analyzing and visualizing data, I have started to learn more...
View ArticleWeekly Python Chat: Machine learning & scikit-learn
We'll be asking Kevin Markham about machine learning with scikit-learn.
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Juan Manuel Contreras: Buyers and Renters
After a months-long break from working on the Monopoly simulator, I am returning to this project with the intention of programming on a more regular basis. To help speed things along, I will be...
View ArticleGlyph Lefkowitz: A Container Is A Function Call
It seems to me that the prevailing mental model among users of container technology1 right now is that a container is a tiny little virtual machine. It’s like a machine in the sense that it is...
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Kushal Das: Event report: Flock 2016
This year’s Flock was help in Krakow, Poland, from 2nd to 5th August. /me, and Sayan started our journey on 30th from Pune, and we reached Krakow finally on 31st afternoon. Ratnadeep joined us from the...
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Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Harry Percival
This week we welcome Harry Percival (@hjwp) as our PyDev of the Week! Harry is the author of Test-Driven Development with Python. You can visit his website to learn more about the book and even read it...
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Doug Hellmann: dis — Python Bytecode Disassembler — PyMOTW 3
The dis module includes functions for working with Python bytecode by “disassembling” it into a more human-readable form. Reviewing the bytecodes being executed by the interpreter is a good way to...
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Caktus Consulting Group: Python Nordeste 2016 Recap
Image via @pythonnordeste#pyselfieI don’t know anyone there. I don’t know the language. What about this Zika virus? What about this political unrest? These were some of the doubts and fears racing...
View ArticleAndrew Dalke: Faster parity calculation
In the previous essay I needed determine the parity of a permutation. I used a Shell sort and counted the number of swaps needed to order the list. The parity is even (or "0") if the number of swaps is...
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