Mike Driscoll: Python 101 Back-to-School Sale
I am launching a back-to-school sale of my Python 101 course. You can get the Python 101 book now for 50% by using the following offer code: fall2015. This offer is good until September 15, 2015.You...
View ArticlePython Piedmont Triad User Group: Drones at Winston Salem Project Night...
FlightSome months ago, we gave PYPTUG members the choice: Flight or Invisibility. Which superpower would you choose?Well, it was really more of a choice between a high altitude balloon flight in near...
View ArticleBrett Cannon: Try to not use the C API directly
If there is one persnickety thing people ask of python-dev it is for the GIL to go away. People view it as this great bugaboo of performance that hinders CPython in a world where single-core chips are...
View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 261] Larry Hastings: Python’s Infamous GIL
I often speak with people who have come to Python from Java or .NET, and really want to use threads. Their excitement decreases dramatically when they discover that Python’s threads are limited by the...
View ArticleCodementor: Wishful Coding in Python: A Problem Solving Philosophy
What is Wishful Code?Wishful code is code which calls functions that don’t yet exist.Wishful coding is a strategy/philosophy for recursively solving big problems. It goes like this:Define the top-level...
View ArticleMike C. Fletcher: Thinking Out Loud for a PyCon.ca presentation...
Only two days left to put in a proposal for PyCon.ca, I'll just brainstorm some topics here:Neural NetworksCrash Course -- introduction to Neural Networks for traditional programmers (no "big"...
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Python Software Foundation: Jessica McKellar receives 2015 Frank Willison Award
Ask any Pythonista to name the best features of Python and they are sure to include its amazing community. For the past 15 years the PSF has recognized this important feature with its Community Service...
View ArticleMachinalis: Nested resources with Django REST Framework
IntroductionDjango REST Framework (DRF) is a great way to provide RESTful interfaces for Django sites. Although it is fairly complete and does pretty much everything for you, it doesn’t cover all the...
View ArticleContinuum Analytics Blog: Memex - Mining the Dark Web
Continuum Analytics has always been a leader in open source development and state-of-the-art technology. A prime example of our dedication to addressing complex problems and testing the boundaries of...
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Julien Danjou: Reading LWN.net with Pocket
I've started to use Pocket a few months ago to store my backlog of things to read. It's especially useful as I can use it to read content offline since we still don't have any Internet access in places...
View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 262] Armin Rigo: The GIL is dead — PyPy-STM
Yesterday’s video described the GIL in Python— its history, current usage, and future. It would seem that Python is destined to have a GIL in the foreseeable future. However, the PyPy alternative...
View ArticleMike C. Fletcher: OpenGLContext is almost on Python3
Anthony has been working on getting SimpleParse ported to Python3, so the last *major* impediment to making OpenGLContext (and PyVRML97) Python3 compatible is in-process. In the meantime, I went...
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Python 4 Kids: Python for Kids Book: Intro and Project 1
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 corrections...
View ArticleCodementor: A Python Import Tutorial for Beginners
What?! Another Import Tutorial?Well, yeah. But there are a lot of overly technical, incomplete, incorrect or just wrong ones out there. As a beginner Python developer I was once faced with sifting...
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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis: PyGotham 2015
Are you coming to PyGotham in NYC this year? My colleague Anna Herlihy presents her mad science project PyLLVM, a high-performance Python-to-machine-code compiler, at the start of the conference. In...
View ArticlePrzemysław Kołodziejczyk: How to upload file to GCS from GAE/GCE using Python
It is possible to upload files to Google Cloud Storage on several ways. We can use Blobstore API, create upload url using create_upload_url method and POST a file to this url. We can use Google Cloud...
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Python 4 Kids: Python for Kids: Project 2
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...
View ArticleCaktus Consulting Group: Making Clean Code a Part of Your Build Process (And...
At Caktus, "clean" (in addition to "working"!) code is an important part of our delivery. For all new projects, we achieve that by using flake8. flake8 is a wrapper around several tools: pep8,...
View ArticleDoing Math with Python: All chapters completed, off to the printers
I am very excited to write that all the chapters has been completed and the book is currently with the printers! You can find out more about the contents (including a detailed table of contents) from...
View ArticlePodcast.__init__: Episode 19 - Al Sweigart on Python for Non-Programmers
Visit our site to listen to past episodes, learn more about us, and support the show.SummaryWe got the opportunity to speak with Al Sweigart about his work on books like ‘Automate The Boring Stuff With...
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