DataCamp: New Course: Introduction to Databases in Python
Whether you like it or not, databases are ubiquitous and, as a data scientist, you'll need to interact with them constantly. The Python SQL toolkit SQLAlchemy provides an accessible and intuitive way...
View ArticlePyCharm: PyCharm 2016.3 Release Candidate 2
We are happy to announce the availability of PyCharm 2016.3 RC 2. We are approaching the release of 2016’s third major PyCharm update, and it’s available for preview now. Download it now from the...
View ArticleMachinalis: Watermarking images on Django sites
Have you ever noticed how stock photography sites add watermarks to the images shown on their catalogs? They do that to make sure people don’t just take the free samples and use them without proper...
View ArticleDaniel Bader: A Python Riddle: The Craziest Dict Expression in the West
A Python Riddle: The Craziest Dict Expression in the WestLet’s pry apart this slightly unintuitive Python dictionary expression to find out what’s going on in the uncharted depths of the Python...
View ArticleAlex Clark: Project Makefile Open for Business
Makefile for Python Web Development & Related ProjectsA while back I was asked to speak to the Configuration Management Working Group of DC:From that moment on, it was on: an excuse to finish and...
View ArticleCodementor: How to Run Python and Ruby on Heroku with Multiple Buildpacks
One of my mentees here in codementor.io encountered a problem when running Python and Ruby together on Heroku. That session inspired me to write this tutorial—how to run more than one environment on...
View ArticleMartijn Faassen: Looking for new challenges
Fair warning: In this blog post I aim to sell myself. I'm looking for an exciting and challenging new freelance engagement.I'm a software developer and I have been one professionally for about 20 years...
View ArticleDataCamp: Statistical Thinking in Python (Part 1) - New Course
We just launched Statistical Thinking in Python (Part 1) taught by Justin Bois. After all of the hard work of acquiring data and getting them into a form you can work with, you ultimately want to make...
View ArticlePyCharm: PyCharm 2016.3 Released
We are happy to announce the availability of PyCharm 2016.3. Get it now from our website.We have worked hard on bringing you a better IDE, PyCharm 2016.3 comes with these features: Better Django...
View ArticleFull Stack Python: How to Make Phone Calls in Python
Good old-fashioned phone calls remain one of the best forms of communication despite the slew of new smartphone apps that have popped up over the past several years. With just a few lines of Python...
View ArticleImport Python: ImportPython 100th Issue - Python Quiz, Building a Financial...
Worthy Read Import Python 100th Issue Quiz It's been 2 years of curating ImportPython and today is the 100th Issue. Wow. What a moment ?. Here is a python quiz competition. Five random() participants...
View ArticleExperienced Django: “Get back to where you once belonged…”
I recently ran into the situation where I wanted to be able to return from a form to the previous view. There was not a way to add kids to the system (short of using the admin portal) and there were...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #86 Python at StackOverflow
If you run into a problem with some API or Python code what do you do to solve it? I personally throw a few keywords into google, sometimes even before checking the full docs. <br/> <br/>...
View ArticlePython 4 Kids: 3: Getting Input
3: Getting InputBook ref: Pg 60ff Python 2.7: this function is called raw_input() in Python 2.7.Pretty much any program you’re ever going to write will involve 3 parts – getting data, processing data...
View ArticleVasudev Ram: Processing DSV data (Delimiter-Separated Values) with Python
By Vasudev RamI needed to process some DSV files recently. Here is a Python program I wrote for it, with a few changes over the original. E.g. I do not show the processing of the data here; I only read...
View ArticleFabio Zadrozny: Python Import the world Anti-pattern!
I've been recently beaten from that anti-pattern which seems to be way too common in Python.Now, what exactly is that "import the world" anti-pattern?This anti-pattern (which I just made up) is...
View ArticlePythonClub - A Brazilian collaborative blog about Python: Deploy rápido e...
Sempre busquei alternativas para deploy simples como o heroku. Vou mostrar neste passo-a-passo uma forma simples e rápida utilizando o Dokku.Dokkué a menor implementação PaaS que você já viu. De uma...
View ArticlePython Data: Dask – A better way to work with large CSV files in Python
In a recent post titled Working with Large CSV files in Python, I shared an approach I use when I have very large CSV files (and other file types) that are too large to load into memory. While the...
View ArticleTwisted Matrix Labs: Twisted 16.6.0 Released
On behalf of Twisted Matrix Laboratories, I am honoured to announce the release of Twisted 16.6!The highlights of this release are:The ability to use "python -m twisted" to call the new twist...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (xlvii) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2016-11-26 07:38:44 GMTAll possibilities to split a list into two lists...
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