Python Diary: Encryption experiment in Python
I recently created a toy encryption tool using pure Python, and it's dead simple to implement and use. It is slow in CPython, a bit faster in Cython, and runs nicely in a compiled language like...
View ArticleKushal Das: Fedora Atomic Working Group update from 2017-01-17
This is an update from Fedora Atomic Working Group based on the IRC meeting on 2017-01-17. 14 people participated in the meeting, the full log of the meeting can be found here.OverlayFS partitionWe had...
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Kushal Das: Desktop environments in my computer
I started my Linux journey with Gnome, as it was the default desktop environment in RHL. I took some time to find out about KDE. I guess I found out accidentally during re-installation. It used to be...
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PyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Christopher Laco and ReTrans
Speaker Profile: Christopher Laco (@claco)Chris comes to us from the Akron, OH area where he’s been a programmer, webmaster, server magician and all around jack of all trades in the industry for over...
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PyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Daniel Pritchett and TechFed Nashville
Speaker Profile: Daniel Pritchett Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee, Daniel is a longtime consulting developer with a fondness for dynamic languages and the Unix command line. Daniel’s production...
View ArticleIan Ozsvald: PyDataLondon 2017 Conference Call for Proposals Now Open
This year we’ll hold our 4th PyDataLondon conference during May 5th-7th at Bloomberg (thanks Bloomberg!). Our Call for Proposals is open and will run during February (closing date to be confirmed so...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (lvi) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2017-01-20 17:55:52 GMTIs '# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-' also a comment in...
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Import Python: Import Python Weekly Issue 108 - What every Python project...
Worthy Read Playing with 80 Million Amazon Product Review Ratings Using Apache Spark I wrote a simple Python script to combine the per-category ratings-only data from the Amazon product reviews...
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Kushal Das: University Connect at SICSR Pune
Last Thursday, I visited SICSR, Pune campus as part of University Connect program from Red Hat Pune. This was the second event in the University Connect program. Rupali, the backbone of all community...
View ArticleNed Batchelder: A tale of two exceptions
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...This week saw the release of three different versions of Coverage.py. This is not what I intended. Clearly something was getting tangled up. It had...
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Kushal Das: Developing Command Line Interpreters using python-cmd2
Many of you already know that I love command line applications. Let it be a simple command line tool, or something more complex with a full command line interface/interpreter (CLI) attached to it. Back...
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Reuven Lerner: Data science + machine learning + Python course in Shanghai
Data science is changing our lives in dramatic ways, and just about every company out there wants to take advantage of the insights that we can gain from analyzing our data — and then making...
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PyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Greg Back and TEDxNashville
Speaker Profile: Greg Back(@gtback)Greg is a deep and mysterious python programmer with no bio, but don’t let his mystic fool you! He’s a wicked sharp local Python developer who is very active in our...
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PyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Derik Pell and Meeple Mountain
Speaker Profile: Derik Pell (@_gignosko_)Derik got his Masters in Computer Science from The University of Illinois at Springfield where he was lucky enough to get to study data from many different...
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Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Mark Haase
This week we welcome Mark Haase as our PyDev of the Week. Mark is the author of PEP 505 – None-aware operators. You can check out what projects Mark is interested in over on Github. He also has a...
View ArticleMontreal Python User Group: Montréal-Python 62: Karyokinetic Liberation
It is 2017, and we are getting ready for a great year of Python in Montreal. To start the year on a good note, we are launching our first request for presenters. This is an opportunity for all, we are...
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Doug Hellmann: site — Site-wide Configuration — PyMOTW 3
The site module handles site-specific configuration, especially the import path. Read more… This post is part of the Python Module of the Week series for Python 3. See PyMOTW.com for more articles from...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 101 Now FREE on Leanpub Permanently
After the amazing response I had when I made Python 101 free for a few days a couple of months ago (see here, I have decided to make it free (or Pay What You Want) permanently on Leanpub (PDF, mobi and...
View ArticleWeekly Python Chat: Python 2 vs 3
You've used Python, but you haven't tried using the other Python. Let's talk about Python 2 and Python 3: which one should you use and what's the difference?
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Daniel Bader: The 4 Major Ways to Do String Formatting in Python
The 4 Major Ways to Do String Formatting in PythonRemember the Zen of Python and how there should be “one obvious way to do something in Python”? You might scratch your head when you find out that...
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