Matthew Rocklin: Dask Development Log
This work is supported by Continuum Analytics the XDATA Program and the Data Driven Discovery Initiative from the Moore FoundationTo increase transparency I’m blogging weekly about the work done on...
View ArticleChristoph Zwerschke: The new f-strings in Python 3.6
Hurray! It’s Christmas time - and Python 3.6 has been released!One of the many goodies packed into the new release are formatted string literals, or simply called “f-strings”. In this blog post I’ll...
View ArticleExperienced Django: Adventures in Python 3
As part of my playing with PyBuilder (mentioned in the last post), I decided to convert one of my old tools to use it and to convert to python3 at the same time. While this was probably foolish...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Philip House
This week we welcome Philip House (@PhilipHouse2) as our PyDev of the Week! Philip is one of the authors behind PEP 526 – Syntax for Variable Annotations which was provisionally accepted into Python...
View ArticleDoug Hellmann: tabnanny — Indentation validator — PyMOTW 3
Consistent use of indentation is important in a langauge like Python, where white-space is significant. The tabnanny module provides a scanner to report on “ambiguous” use of indentation. Read more…...
View Articlepythonwise: Automatically Running BigQuery Flows
At a current project we're using Google's BigQuery to crunch some petabyte scale data. We have several SQL scripts that we need to run in specific order. The below script detects the table dependencies...
View ArticleChris Hager: Python Utilities by Peter Norvig
Peter Norvig, the famous American computer scientist and Director of Research at Google Inc., participated in this year’s Advent of Code (a series of small programming puzzles), and shared his...
View ArticleKushal Das: rkt image build command reference
In my last post, I wrote about my usage of rkt. I have also posted the basic configuration to create your own container images. Today we will learn more about those various build commands of the .acb...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #91 Top 10 Data Science Stories of 2016
It's been an amazing year for Python and Data Science. It's time to look back at the major headlines and take stock in what we've done as a community. <br/> <br/> I've teamed up with the...
View ArticleCalvin Spealman: Let's Make A Game Passes the Half-way Mark with Episodes 12...
Interested in my process for making a monthly game? I've got two new episodes up of my series Let's Make A Game! for a total of eight episodes to enjoy, so far. The project should include a total of 25...
View ArticlePyCon: Python Education Summit — in its 5th year in 2017!
Teachers, educators, Pythonistas, come and share your projects, experiences, and tools of the trade as you teach coding and Python to your students. The “Call for Talks” to speak at the Annual Python...
View ArticleContinuum Analytics News: A Look Back and a Peek Ahead: A Year in Review at...
Company BlogTuesday, December 27, 2016Michele ChambersEVP Anaconda Business Unit & CMOContinuum Analytics2016 has been quite the year for all of us at Anaconda! From expanding our strong team to...
View ArticleChristoph Zwerschke: Python and the 36 Towers
This year my brother’s family sent us a puzzle in their Christmas package, mentioning that they already solved it and we should give it a try over the Christmas holidays, too. The puzzle is called “36...
View ArticleCodementor: Building Data Products with Python: A Wine Review Website using...
##IntroductionWith this tutorial, we start a series of tutorials about how to build data products with Python. As a leitmotif we want to build a web-based wine reviews and recommendations website using...
View ArticleCodementor: Building Data Products with Python: Adding User Management to a...
This is the second tutorial on our series on how to build data products with Python. Remember that as a leitmotif we want to build a web-based wine reviews and recommendations website using Python...
View ArticleCodementor: Building Data Products with Python: Using Machine Learning to...
This is the third part of our tutorial on how to build a web-based wine review and recommendation system using Python technologies such as Django, Pandas, SciPy, and Scikit-learn.In the first tutorial,...
View ArticleCodementor: Adding Flow Control to Apache Pig using Python
(image source)##Introduction So you like Pig but its cramping your style? Are you not sure what Pig is about? Are you keen to write some code to write code for you? If yes, then this is for you.This...
View ArticleNed Batchelder: D'oh: Coverage.py 4.3.1
Yesterday I released five months' of fixes as Coverage.py 4.3, and today I am releasing Coverage.py 4.3.1. This is not because releasing is fun, but because releasing is error-prone.Two bad problems...
View ArticlePyCharm: What’s New Webinar, Behind The Scenes
Earlier this month I did a What’s New in PyCharm 2016.3 webinar which toured the new features in 2016.3: Python 3.6, Django, web, VCS, and platform. Rather than a simple feature list, I took a...
View ArticleTrey Hunner: The Iterator Protocol: How for Loops Work in Python
We’re interviewing for a job and our interviewer has asked us to remove all for loops from a block of code. They then mentioned something about iterators and cackled maniacally while rapping their...
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