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Evennia: A wagon-load of post-summer updates
Summer vacations are over and work resumes in Evennia land! Here's a wagon-load of small updates on what's going on. Ainneve The Ainneve project, the creation of an official, open-source Evennia demo...
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Matthew Rocklin: Efficient Tabular Storage
tl;dr: We discuss efficient techniques for on-disk storage of tabular data, notably the following:Binary storesColumn storesCategorical supportCompressionIndexed/Partitioned storesWe use NYCTaxi...
View ArticleBen Rousch: Kivy – Interactive Applications and Games in Python, 2nd Edition...
I was recently asked by the author to review the second edition of “Kivy – Interactive Applications in Python” from Packt Publishing. I had difficulty recommending the first edition mostly due to the...
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PyTexas: 2015 Schedule Released and Tons Away to Stay in the Loop
The 2015 schedule has been released and it is jammed packed with awesome talks and tutorials. Check it out today.2015 schedule »We've also added a few extra ways to stay in the loop with PyTexas...
View ArticleMike C. Fletcher: Raspberry Pi PyOpenGL
So since Soni got me to setup raspbian on the old raspberry pi, I got PyOpenGL + GLES2 working on it today. There is a bug in raspbian's EGL library (it depends on GLES2 without linking to it), but...
View ArticleMontreal Python User Group: Call for Speakers - Montréal-Python 54:...
It's back to school so, at Montréal-Python, we are preparing for the first event of the season!We are back every second Monday of the month, so our next meeting will take place on Monday, September the...
View ArticleKay Hayen: Nuitka Release 0.5.14
This is to inform you about the new stable release of Nuitka. It is the extremely compatible Python compiler. Please see the page "What is Nuitka?" for an overview.This release is an intermediate step...
View ArticleIan Ozsvald: EuroSciPy 2015 and Data Cleaning on Text for ML (talk)
I’m at EuroSciPy 2015, we have 2 days of Pythonistic Science in Cambridge. I spoke in the morning on Data Cleaning on Text to Prepare for Data Analysis and Machine Learning (which is a terribly verbose...
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PyCharm: PyCharm 4.5.4 RC2 is available
Having announced the PyCharm 4.5.4 Release Candidate build a week ago, today we’ve published the PyCharm 4.5.4 RC2 build 141.2569, which is already available for download and evaluation from the EAP...
View ArticleKun Xi: Thumb Up or Down: take survey with your hand gesture
In the latest SurveyMonkey hackathon held on August 13 – 14, 2015, I stayed up the night to build the Thumb Up or Down, a computer vision prototype to allow you to take survey with your hand gesture....
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Robin Wilson: Introducing recipy: effortless provenance tracking with Python
By time this blog post is published, I will have finished my presentation about recipy at EuroSciPy (see the abstract for my talk), and so I thought it would be a good time to introduce recipy to the...
View ArticleShiningPanda: ShiningPanda plugin 0.22 is out!
We released today a new version of the ShiningPanda plugin for Jenkins. For those who don't know this plugin yet, it is probably the easiest way to setup your Python projects with Jenkins. But let's...
View ArticleBangPypers: August 2015 workshop report
We had workshop on salt stack at RedHat office. Workshop was attended by 30 people. Previously we had done workshop with Django, Data Visualization and this time it was on automation and configuration...
View ArticleJorgen Schäfer: Elpy 1.9.0 released
I just released version 1.9.0 of Elpy, the Emacs Python Development Environment. This is a feature release.Elpy is an Emacs package to bring powerful Python editing to Emacs. It combines a number of...
View ArticleJeff Knupp: Python Dictionaries
Aside: one thing I dislike about the official Python documentation is that only a small percentage of entries have example code. We should change that...)One of the keys to becoming a better Python...
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Python 4 Kids: Python for Kids Book: Project 5
In these posts I outline the contents of each project in my book Python For Kids For Dummies. If you have questions or comments about the project listed in the title post them here. Any improvements...
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Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Kenneth Love
This week we welcome Kenneth Love as our PyDev of the Week. He is active in the Python community via the Portland chapter of Django Ladies. He works for Team Treehouse creating Python courses. Let’s...
View Articlepgcli: Release v0.19.2
Features:Autocompletion for database name in c and connect. (Thanks: Darik Gamble).Improved multiline query support by correctly handling open quotes. (Thanks: Darik Gamble).Added pager...
View ArticleArmin Ronacher: Samsung Pay's MTS Transactions and Merchant's Ability to...
I have a weird obsession with payment systems. They fascinate me. I find it very satisfying to make a credit card transaction and to get a text message confirming the purchase on my phone a second...
View ArticleHernan Grecco: The state of the PyVISA ecosystem (and more)
Yesterday we released several packages of the Python Instrumentation Ecosystem. You can upgrade to PyVISA 1.8,PyVISA-py 0.2 and PyVISA-sim 0.3 by:pip install -U pyvisa pyvisa-py pyvisa-simFor those of...
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