Rene Dudfield: Where the code & data things are. Part 3.
This is part three of a series of articles about packaging python games. Part one, Part two. More discussion is happening on the pygame mailing list.TLDR; I think we should follow the python...
View ArticleDavid MacIver: Avoiding conferences in the USA for now
This is an administrative note, with a side order of politics.Although I am not personally affected to any large degree (I’m a US citizen, and while there are theoretically things that could cause me...
View ArticleVladimir Iakolev: Finding leaking tests with pytest
On one project we had a problem with leaking tests, and problem was so huge that some tests was leaking even for a few GB. We tried pytest-leaks, but it was a bit overkill and didn’t worked with our...
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Reuven Lerner: Python function brain transplants
What happens when we define a function in Python?The “def” keyword does two things: It creates a function object, and then assigns a variable (our function name) to that function object. So when I...
View ArticlePyCon: Precognitive Selected as Chicago’s Startup Row Company; Application...
On Thursday, January 26th, the PyCon Startup Row hosted its first local pitch event of the 2017 season! Braintree hosted the Chicago event at their headquarters in Merchandise Mart. Lagunitas donated...
View ArticleKushal Das: Testing Kubernetes on Fedora Atomic using gotun
Kubernetes is one of the major components of the modern container technologies. Previously, using Tunir I worked on ideas to test it automatically on Fedora Atomic images. The new gotun provides a...
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PyCharm: PyCharm 2017.1 EAP 5 (build 171.2822.19)
The fifth Early Access Program (EAP) release of PyCharm 2017.1 is available now. Get it from our website!This EAP introduces several new features:Support for the ‘six’ library. The six library is a...
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Continuum Analytics News: Conda's New Noarch Packages
Developer BlogThursday, February 2, 2017Sophia CastellarinContinuum AnalyticsBeginning with conda version 4.3 and conda-build 2.1, two new types of noarch packages are supported. Noarch Python packages...
View ArticleWingware News: Wing IDE 6.0.2: February 2, 2017
This release expands and improves support for remote development, adds a drop down of found Python installations, introduces symbol name style refactoring operations, improves multi-selection with the...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #97 Flask, Django style with Flask-Diamond
There's a whole spectrum of Python web frameworks. On one end we have the micro-frameworks like bottle, flask, and do some degree Pyramid. On the other things like Django and even CMSes like Wagtail...
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Philip Semanchuk: A Postcard of Tunisia
Earlier on this blog I briefly mentioned working with some Libyans in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. We chose to meet at that location because it’s close to Libya but much safer than Tripoli. Now that...
View ArticleVasudev Ram: Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory...
By Vasudev RamSaw this blog post recently via an email from the PSF (Python Software Foundation):Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatoryand then also saw this HN thread (about the...
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Python Software Foundation: Pythonistas (and a Python!) at PyCon Jamaica
This past November marked the first PyCon Jamaica. Held in the capital, Kingston, the conference began on November 17th with a day of tutorials followed by a single track of talks on November 18th. I...
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Import Python: Import Python Weekly Issue 110 - Million requests per second,...
Worthy Read The Hacker's Guide to Python In this book I want to share everything I learned during my journey of coding Python every day for years. My goal is to make you proficient at Python, from...
View ArticleKushal Das: Writing Python Extensions in Rust
In December I spent few days with Rust. I wrote few lines of code and was trying to get in touch with the syntax and feeling of the language. One of the major things in my TODO list was figuring out...
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Semaphore Community: Testing Python Applications with Pytest
This article is brought with ❤ to you by Semaphore.IntroductionTesting applications has become a standard skill set required for any competent developer today. The Python community embraces testing,...
View ArticleRoseHosting Blog: How to Install Jupyter on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS
Jupyter Notebook is an open source, interactive web app that you can use to create documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text. Jupyter Notebook supports more than...
View ArticleKushal Das: Testing Fedora Atomic Images using upstream Atomic Host tests
Project Atomic has a group of tests written in Ansible. In this blog post, I am going to show to use those along with gotun. I will be running the improved-sanity-test as suggested in the #atomic...
View ArticleKracekumar Ramaraju: Return Postgres data as JSON in Python
Postgres supports JSON and JSONB for a couple of years now. The support for JSON-functions landed in version 9.2. These functions let Postgres server to return JSON serialized data. This is a handy...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (lix) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2017-02-03 20:50:29 GMTIs removing an element from the front of a list...
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