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 ArticleCoding Diet: List arguments and isinstance
More than a decade and a half ago, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote a blog post isinstance() considered harmful, a lot of which I believe holds up pretty well today. It's well worth reading it in its...
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Import Python: Import Python Weekly Issue 109 - Pycon US 2017 selected talks,...
Worthy Read Talks selected for Pycon 2017 The acceptance and rejection letters for pycon arrived this week and so did the final list of selected talks for Pycon US 2017. pyconCloud Hosted Databases 9...
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Rene Dudfield: Pyweek 23 - the python community game development competition.
pyweek registration is open. For the biannual game jam. http://www.pyweek.org/23/Which means you can join, and put your self in a team, or join up as a solo entrant.Spend a week(part time) finishing a...
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Doug Hellmann: Removing Disqus comments from pymotw.com and My Blog
On 23 January I received email from Disqus explaining that their new pricing structure is going into effect 8 February. These changes mean I am going to remove comments from all of my sites, at least...
View ArticleVasudev Ram: Finding the arity of a Python function
By Vasudev RamWhile browsing through some Python code, I had the idea of trying to find the arity of a Python function. The arity of a function is the number of arguments it takes.Digression: I had...
View ArticleKushal Das: New features in Gotun
Gotun is a written from scratch golang port of Tunir. Gotun can execute tests on remote systems, or it can run tests on OpenStack and AWS.Installation from gitIf you have a working golang setup, then...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: Simple loop parallelization in Python
Sometimes you are programming a loop to run over tasks that could be easily parallelized. Usual suspects include loads that wait IO like calls to third party API services.Since Python 3.2, there have...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Lisa Roach
This week we welcome Lisa Roach as our PyDev of the Week! Lisa is one of the authors of PEP 526 – Syntax for Variable Annotations which is a part of Python 3.6. You can check out which FOSS projects...
View ArticleRoseHosting Blog: How to Install Django on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS
Django is a free and open source, Python-based web application framework. It is a set of useful components that help developers to easily and quickly create their applications. Django is built and...
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PyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Jason Bynum and DerbyPy
Speaker Profile: Jason Bynum (@jasonbynum)Jason works on things at EmmaJason will be presenting “Alexa Doesn’t Even Have Any Skillz” at 3:00PM Saturday (2/4) in room 300. We’ll cover the...
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Doug Hellmann: pkgutil — Package Utilities — PyMOTW 3
The pkgutil module includes functions for changing the import rules for Python packages and for loading non-code resources from files distributed within a package. Read more… This post is part of the...
View ArticleGoDjango: How to Vett Django Apps
There are a lot of 3rd party django apps that people put out which makes our lives easier, but are they good?There are a lot of ways to evaluate them, mostly it seems a lot of people use intuition.In...
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Reuven Lerner: A short Python class puzzle
Here’s a short Python puzzle that I use in many of my on-site courses, which I have found to be useful and instructive: Given the following short snippet of Python, which letters will be printed, and...
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Daniel Bader: Why Learn Python? Here Are 8 Data-Driven Reasons
Why Learn Python? Here Are 8 Data-Driven ReasonsIs Python worth learning? We’ve interviewed experts and surveyed the job market to identify the key reasons why you should learn Python today.Python had...
View ArticleKushal Das: Working over ssh in Python
Working with the remote servers is a common scenario for most of us. Sometimes, we do our actual work over those remote computers, sometimes our code does something for us in the remote systems. Even...
View ArticlePatrick Kennedy: Receiving Files with a Flask REST API
IntroductionOver the past two months, I’ve spent a lot of time learning about designing and implementing REST APIs. It’s been a lot of fun learning what a REST API is and I really enjoyed learning how...
View ArticleS. Lott: Improving the epub format -- hacking your ebooks
From a reader.I recently purchased a copy of 'Modern Python Cookbook' but I found that the code listings in the epub file were indented which caused a problem when reading on my tablet. (I reverted to...
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Python Software Foundation: Time To Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon...
If you're using an older Python without the most secure TLS implementation, this is the year to get serious about upgrading. Otherwise next June you may not be able to "pip install" packages from PyPI....
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Keynoter Sophie Rapoport
Speaker Profile: Sophie Rapoport Sophie Rapoport is a software engineer at Eventbrite, where she builds and maintains the software infrastructure for Eventbrite’s financial systems. She studied math...
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