Python Anywhere: System update this morning -- why it took so long
This morning we deployed a new version of PythonAnywhere -- we've blogged about the new stuff that you can see in it, and this post is a run-down on why it took longer than we were expecting.Our normal...
View ArticleDataCamp: Pandas Cheat Sheet for Data Science in Python
The Pandas library is one of the most preferred tools for data scientists to do data manipulation and analysis, next to matplotlib for data visualization and NumPy, the fundamental library for...
View ArticleMike C. Fletcher: Review: Dell XPS 15 (9550) as a Linux Developer's Laptop
So I've now had a Dell XPS 15 9550 as my primary driver for approximately 9 months. I covered the (painful) setup process a bit when I first got it, so I won't repeat most of that here. Suffice it to...
View ArticleDataquest: How to get a data science job
You’ve done it. You just spent months learning how to analyze data and make predictions. You’re now able to go from raw data to well structured insights in a matter of hours. After all that effort, you...
View ArticleCaktus Consulting Group: Django is Boring, or Why Tech Startups (Should) Use...
I recently attended Django Under The Hood in Amsterdam, an annual gathering of Django core team members and developers from around the world. A common theme discussed at the conference this year is...
View ArticleSemaphore Community: Building and Testing an API Wrapper in Python
This article is brought with ❤ to you by Semaphore.IntroductionMost websites we use provide an HTTP API to enable developers to access their data from their own applications. For developers utilizing...
View ArticleAnarcat: Django debates privacy concern
In recent years, privacy issues have become a growing concern among free-software projects and users. As more and more software tasks become web-based, surveillance and tracking of users is also on the...
View ArticleWeekly Python Chat: String formatting and Python 3.6's f-strings
We'll discuss old style string formatting, the current "new" string formatting syntax, and the brand new f-string syntax in anticipation of Python 3.6!
View ArticlePyCharm: PyCharm 2016.3.1 Released
We are happy to announce that the latest version of PyCharm is now available! You can download it now from our webpage.In this version we’ve resolved a lot of issues:If you would like to disable the...
View ArticleCarl Chenet: Feed2tweet 0.8, tool to post RSS feeds to Twitter, released
Feed2tweet 0.8, a self-hosted Python app to automatically post RSS feeds to the Twitter social network, was released this December, 14th.With this release Feed2tweet now smartly manages the hashtags,...
View ArticleWill McGugan: Can your Python template do this?
I like to imagine components of a Python web framework as personalities. Here's how I would imagine a conversation between a typical view and template would go down:View Here's that data I just looked...
View ArticleGlyph Lefkowitz: Don’t Stop Tweeting On My Account
Shortly after my previous post, my good friend David Reid not-so-subtly subtweeted me for apparently yelling at everyone using a twitter thread to be quiet and stop expressing themselves. He pointed...
View ArticleCodementor: Laser Cutting with Python
Wouldn’t it be cool that apart from making apps, you can also produce physical things with your coding skills?This basic tutorial will show you how you can use the Python Turtle library to create...
View ArticleAlex Clark: A Shout Out to Shout IRC
I’m back on IRC for the foreseeable future, and loving it. Thank you Shout IRC.BacklogA few years ago, I got old and gave up running command line IRC clients. I’ve run them all or at least a lot of...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #89 A conversation with the Chief Data Scientist of the...
This special episode is hosted by Jonathon Morgan. <br/> <br/> He went to the White House (the White House!) to interview DJ Patil, the Chief Data Scientist of the United States. DJ talked...
View ArticleCatalin George Festila: Use the twitter python module - part 002.
Using the twitter python module named python-twitter you can search twitter query into local area.The default tutorial is here.The source code to change is that line:results =...
View Articlecodeboje: Integrate Your Own License Generator With Paddle
Paddle is a payment processor for selling things online and specially targeting software developer and their needs. They even support trial version and license activating through their SDK....
View ArticleTennessee Leeuwenburg: A thought experiment on making money from blogging
For some unknown reason, Google picked today (or, presumably, a few days ago) to verify my postal email address. This is somehow part of being able to accept AdSense payments. I turned ads on at some...
View ArticleTennessee Leeuwenburg: Wrangling downloading my own blog articles
99.9% of everything at the moment appears to be wrangling basic data ingest.In a fit of semi-directionless curiosity, I decided to try expanding on my previous post by wiring up some kind of automatic...
View ArticleDougal Matthews: Finding dead code with Vulture
Somebody recently pointed out Vulture to me, a Python project for finding dead code. The project uses the ast module in Python to
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