Peter Bengtsson: Autocompeter is Dead. Long live Autocompeter!
The server part of Autocompeter.com has been entirely re-written from being Go and Redis to now being Django and ElasticSearch.
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Continuum Analytics News: Using Anaconda and H2O to Supercharge your Machine...
Developer BlogMonday, January 9, 2017Kristopher OverholtContinuum AnalyticsAnaconda integrates with many different providers and platforms to give you access to the data science libraries you love with...
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Kushal Das: Building command line tools in Python with click
Sometimes I get requests from new programmers to help them to learn to develop command line tools. They ask for any easy tutorial and howtos. My answer used to be argparse module, and the official...
View ArticleS. Lott: The Depths of Degradation or How to Reduce
Let's talk real-world functional programming. Disclosure: I'm a fan of functional programming in Python. (This: https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/functional-python-programming)The usual...
View ArticleReuven Lerner: Free download: Cheat sheet for Python data structures
Get the Python data manipulations cheat sheetClick HereJust about every day of every week, I teach Python. I teach not only in Israel, but also in Europe, China, and the US. While I do teach newcomers...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Oleg Broytman
This week we welcome Oleg Broytman (@phd_ru) as our PyDev of the Week. Oleg is the maintainer of the SQLObject project. According to their website “SQLObject is a popular Object Relational Manager for...
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Doug Hellmann: sysconfig — Interpreter Compile-time Configuration — PyMOTW 3
The features of sysconfig have been extracted from distutils to create a stand-alone module. It includes functions for determining the settings used to compile and install the current interpreter. Read...
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PyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Eric Appelt and Six Feet Up
Speaker Profile: Eric Appelt (@appeltel)I’m an IBM software engineer working in cloud data storage, with previous experience in big data working as a research physicist with the CMS experiment at the...
View ArticlePossbility and Probability: python __debug__
The other day I stumbled upon Python __debug__ and I thought I would share some interesting things I learned about it. What is python __debug__? It is a constant that Python uses to determine if calls...
View ArticleGoDjango: 5 Reasons I don't think you shold use the django admin
Have you ever needed to quickly modify data or look it up. But while the task is simple the entire process of changing one value frustrates you?Well, this is very common to me, bad UX is annoying. I...
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Stéphane Wirtel: Python Events in 2017, Need your help!
Events in 2017Hello, for the PythonFOSDEM [1] on 4th and 5th February in Belgium, I would like to present some slides with the Python events around the World. Based on https://python.org/events, I have...
View ArticleSwaroop C H: New chinese translation of A Byte of Python
Thank you Mo Lun for creating a brand new Chinese translation of the latest version of A Byte of Python book!In Mo Lun’s words:I am a common journalism student from CYU, Beijing. And actually, I am an...
View ArticleWeekly Python Chat: Iterators
I bet you know how iterables (things you can loop over) work in Python, but how do iterators work? We're going to discuss a weird data type you'll find everywhere in Python.
View ArticleWingware News: Wing IDE 6.0.1: January 10, 2017
This release improves remote host configuration, adds remote development support for 32-bit Linux and older 64-bit Linux systems, fixes stability problems affecting some users, and makes many other...
View ArticleNed Batchelder: Evil ninja module initialization
A question about import styles on the Python-Dev mailing list asked about imports like this:import os as _osUnderstanding why people do this is an interesting lesson in how modules work. A module is...
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Kushal Das: January 2017 PyLadies Pune meetup
Like many of the previous PyLadies Pune meetups, I took a session in this month’s meetup too. System programming basics was the topic for my session. We did the session for around an hour, but as this...
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PyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Kim Crayton and Stratasan
Speaker Profile: Kim Crayton (@KimCrayton1)Kim has years of experience working with learners of all ages, skill level, and abilities and she would like to offer what she knows about successful...
View ArticleNumFOCUS: Free Software and Open Standards in Science @Horizon 2020 - Call...
FSFE has asked for our help as part of the ongoing public consultation on the midterm evaluation of Horizon 2020, the Free Software Foundation Europe published and submitted to the European Commission...
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Enthought: Loading Data Into a Pandas DataFrame: The Hard Way, and The Easy Way
Data exploration, manipulation, and visualization start with loading data, be it from files or from a URL. Pandas has become the go-to library for all things data analysis in Python, but if your...
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Python Data: Jupyter with Vagrant
I’ve written about using vagrant for 99.9% of my python work on here before (see here and here for examples). In addition to vagrant, I use jupyter notebooks on 99.9% of the work that I do, so I...
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