PyCharm: PyCharm 2017.1 EAP 8 (build 171.3566.25)
Our eighth Early Access Program (EAP) release for PyCharm 2017.1 is out now! Get it from our EAP page.New FeaturesVue.js initial support. Vue is a MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) JavaScript framework which...
View ArticleDataCamp: New Course: Unsupervised Learning in Python
Today we're launching our new course Unsupervised Learning in Python by Benjamin Wilson. Say you have a collection of customers with a variety of characteristics such as age, location, and financial...
View ArticlePython Engineering at Microsoft: Python support in Visual Studio 2017
Over the last few months, Visual Studio 2017 has been in preview and many of you have been trying it out and providing feedback. We are very appreciative of everyone who has taken the time to do...
View ArticleDSPIllustrations.com: Circular Convolution Example
Circular Convolution¶In a previous post, we have explained the importance of the convolution operation for signal processing and signal analysis. We have described the convolution integral and...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #100 Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum
Welcome to a very special episode. This is the 100th episode of Talk Python To Me. It's the perfect chance to take a moment and look at where we have come from, and where we are going. Not just with...
View ArticleWesley Chun: Adding text & shapes with the Google Slides API
NOTE: Watch for this blog post (coming soon) as a video in this series.IntroductionThis is the fourth entry highlighting primary use cases of the Google Slides API with Python; check back in the...
View ArticleCatalin George Festila: The twill python module with Fedora 25.
Today I tested the twill python module with python 2.7 and Fedora 25.This is: a scripting system for automating Web browsing. Useful for testing Web pages or grabbing data from password-protected sites...
View ArticleEray Özkural (examachine): Appreciation of Python's Elegance: Metaclasses and...
Sometimes, it amazes me how elegant Python is. A class system that is almost as powerful as CLOS, yet easy to use and comprehend. It is truly one of the most powerful programming systems in the world,...
View ArticleExperienced Django: Python, Snowboarding, and time
It’s mid-snowboard season here in North America, so time for learning, researching and writing is scarce. I wanted to post to keep the blog alive and to give a shout to a friend who’s starting up a...
View ArticleNed Batchelder: A tale of two exceptions, continued
In my last blog post, A tale of two exceptions, I laid out the long drawn-out process of trying to get a certain exception to make tests skip in my test runner. I ended on a solution I liked at the...
View ArticleStories in My Pocket: What is Your Burnout Telling You?
I am glad that mental health is being discussed more often in the programming world. In particular, I would like to thank Kenneth Reitz for his transparency over the last few years and contributing his...
View ArticleWilliam Minchin: Summary Plugin 1.1.0 for Pelican Released
Summary is a plugin for Pelican, a static site generator written in Python.Summary allows easy, variable length summaries directly embedded into the body of your articles. InstallationThe easiest way...
View ArticleCatalin George Festila: The bad and good urllib.
This is a simple python script: import urllibopener = urllib.FancyURLopener({})f = opener.open("http://www.ra___aer.ro/")d=f.read()fo = open('workfile.txt', 'w')fo.write(d)fo.close()The really bad news...
View ArticleVasudev Ram: Perl-like "unless" (reverse if) feature in Python
By Vasudev RamFlowchart image attributionI was mentally reviewing some topics to discuss for a Python training program I was running. Among the topics were statements, including the if statement. I...
View ArticleBhishan Bhandari: Implementing Stack using List in Python – Python...
Intro Stack is a collection of objects inserted and removed in a last-in first-out fashion (LIFO). Objects can be inserted onto stack at any time but only the object inserted last can be accessed or...
View ArticleRene Dudfield: setup.cfg - a solution to python config file soup? A howto guide.
Sick of config file soup cluttering up your repo? Me too. However there is a way to at least clean it up for many python tools.Some of the tools you might use and the config files they support...flake8...
View ArticleWill Kahn-Greene: Who uses my stuff?
SummaryI work on a lot of different things. Some are applications, are are libraries, some I started, some other people started, etc. I have way more stuff to do than I could possibly get done, so I...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (lxii) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2017-02-24 19:53:04 GMTWhy is x**4.0 faster than x**4 in Python 3? -...
View ArticleNed Batchelder: A tale of two exceptions, continued
In my last blog post, A tale of two exceptions, I laid out the long drawn-out process of trying to get a certain exception to make tests skip in my test runner. I ended on a solution I liked at the...
View ArticleDaniel Bader: Installing Python and Pip on Windows
Installing Python and Pip on WindowsIn this tutorial you’ll learn how to set up Python and the Pip package manager on Windows 10, completely from scratch.Step 1: Download the Python InstallerThe best...
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