A. Jesse Jiryu Davis: I Live-Coded an Async Coroutine Framework in 32.5 Minutes
Python 3's "asyncio" module is an efficient async framework similar to Node. But unlike Node, it emphasizes a modern idiom called "coroutines", rather than callbacks. Coroutines promise the best of two...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Getting Your Screen Resolution with Python
I was recently looking into ways to get my screen resolution with Python to help diagnose an issue with an application that wasn’t behaving correctly. In this article, we’ll look at some of the ways to...
View ArticleDjango Weblog: Security releases issued: 1.8.4, 1.7.10, 1.4.22
In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing multiple releases -- Django 1.4.22, 1.7.10, and 1.8.4. These releases are now available on PyPI and our download page. These...
View ArticleCodementor: A Python Import Tutorial for Beginners
What?! Another Import Tutorial?Well, yeah. But there are a lot of overly technical, incomplete, incorrect or just wrong ones out there. As a beginner Python developer I was once faced with sifting...
View ArticlePeter Bengtsson: Introducing optisorl
optisorl is a Python package for sorl-thumbnail which is a kick-ass Python package for Django. sorl-thumbnail is pretty popular and used by a lot of people who have images they want to display as...
View ArticleeGenix.com: eGenix mxODBC 3.3.5 GA
IntroductionmxODBC™ provides an easy-to-use, high-performance, reliable and robust Python interface to ODBC compatible databases such as MS SQL Server, Oracle Database, IBM DB2, Informix and Netezza,...
View ArticleDavid MacIver: What if we had more finished libraries?
Mark Jason Dominus has a piece from a while ago in which he says the following:I released the Text::Template module several years ago, and it was immediately very successful. It’s small, simple, fast,...
View ArticleCodementor: Data Science with Python & R: Exploratory Data Analysis
Introduction and Getting Data refreshHere we are again, with a new episode in our series about doing data science with the two most popular open-source platforms you can use for the job nowadays. In...
View ArticleCodementor: Data Science with Python & R: Data Frames I
MotivationThese series of tutorials on Data Science will try to compare how different concepts in the discipline can be implemented in the two dominant ecosystems nowadays: R and Python. We will do...
View ArticleCodementor: Data Science with Python & R: Data Frames II
We continue here our tutorial on data frames with python and R. The first part introduced the concepts of Data Frame and explained how to create them and index them in Python and R. This part will...
View ArticleCodementor: Data Science with Python & R: Dimensionality Reduction and...
IntroductionAn important step in data analysis is data exploration and representation. We have already seen some concepts in Exploratory Data Analysis and how to use them with both, Python and R. In...
View ArticleBruno Rocha: 10 rules of open source projects
1. Something incomplete is better than nothing at allIf you have a piece of code and you think it is useful. Share it to the community, if this is a code snippet you can share in the form of a gist on...
View ArticleDavid MacIver: Hypothesis 1.10.2 and 1.10.3 are out
Two small bug fix releases. I released one and then immediately found and fixed some unrelated problems, so two patch release for the price of one.Changelog entries:lists(elements,...
View ArticleOmaha Python Users Group: August 19, 2015 – Meeting Notes
Link to Jeff’s slides on “Show me your Python Workflow”Great meeting tonight, lots of new faces and lots of familiar faces too.
View ArticleBrian Okken: Podcast Goals & Topics
In episode 1 of the Python Test Podcast, I listed the topics I wanted to cover, and the goals. But I didn’t list out all of them in the show notes. I’m posting these here to be a slightly more...
View ArticleFabio Zadrozny: PyDev 4.3.0 (improved searching)
PyDev 4.3.0 is out now ;)The main focus on this release was on ironing out the new search dialog (which makes searching even huge codebases almost instant).Also, there was a high-priority fix which...
View ArticleBrian Okken: Pytest vs Unittest vs Nose (PT002)
Choosing a test framework Subscribe in iTunes RSS: http://pythontesting.net/feed/podcast/ I list my requirements for a framework and discuss how Pytest, Unittest, and Nose measure up to those...
View ArticlePython Piedmont Triad User Group: PYPTUG Meeting - August 25th (Basic data...
PYthon Piedmont Triad User Group meetingCome join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (August 25th 2015) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the perfect...
View ArticleWingware News: Wing IDE 5.1.7: August 21, 2015
Wing IDE 5.1.7 enables debugging code running on Raspberry Pi, adds support for Python 3.5r1, improves Django project setup, fixes some problems with pytest unit testing, adds the option to run unit...
View ArticlePyCharm: PyCharm 4.5.4 RC is available
Today we’ve published the PyCharm 4.5.4 Release Candidate bug-fix update.This build brings a lot of significant fixes and improvements. The Release notes lists all fixes for this update. The most...
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