Sandipan Dey: Some Image Processing and Computational Photography:...
The following problems appeared as an assignment in the coursera course Computational Photography (by Georgia Tech university). The following descriptions of the problems are taken directly from the...
View ArticleSandipan Dey: Some Image Processing and Computational Photography:...
The following problems appeared as an assignment in the coursera course Computational Photography (by Georgia Tech university). The following descriptions of the problems are taken directly from the...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #111 Pythonic Career Advice and More
Time for some Pythonic job and career advice with Matt Harrison. Listen in as we discuss how most developer jobs never make it to full job listings and how you can get in on them. We also discuss his...
View ArticleDjango Weekly: DjangoWeekly 38 - Stable django deployments without downtime,...
Worthy ReadStable django deployments without downtimeThis post describes a deployment and maintenance method for Django projects that was designed with scalability in mind. The goal is to push new...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (lxxiii) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2017-05-13 17:55:53 GMTRe-assigning a name to itself - [43/1]Why does...
View ArticleFull Stack Python: How to Become A Successful Self-Taught Software Developer
I received the following question via email from someone spending significant effort learning how to code in anticipation of obtaining full-time job with those skills. The question is also frequently...
View ArticleDataCamp: DataChats: An Interview with Daniel Chen
We're releasing episode 17 of our DataChats video series. And today, Hugo is interviewing Daniel Chen!Daniel is a Software Carpentry instructor and a doctoral student in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and...
View ArticlePyBites: Twitter digest 2017 week 19
Every weekend we share a curated list of 15 cool things (mostly Python) that we found / tweeted throughout the week.
View ArticleThomas Guest: Slicing a list evenly with Python
Here’s a problem I came up against recently. The task was to chop a list into exactly n evenly slized chunks. To give a little more context, let’s suppose we want to divide a list of jobs equally...
View ArticlePyBites: Code Challenge 18 - Get Recommendations - Review
Before moving onto the new challenge let's review lat week's challenge. It's never late to sign up, just fork our challenges repo and start coding.
View ArticlePyBites: Code Challenge 19 - Post to Your Favorite API
Hi Pythonistas, a new week, a new 'bite' of Python coding! This week part 2 of APIs: post to your favorite API. Enjoy
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Anand Balachandran Pillai
This week we welcome Anand Balachandran Pillai as our PyDev of the Week! Anand is the author of a new book called Software Architecture with Python from Packt Publishing. He is the founder of the...
View ArticleDoug Hellmann: gzip — Read and Write GNU zip Files — PyMOTW 3
The gzip module provides a file-like interface to GNU zip files, using zlib to compress and uncompress the data. Read more… This post is part of the Python Module of the Week series for Python 3. See...
View ArticlePyCharm: PyCharm 2017.2 EAP Starts now
The JetBrains PyCharm team is thrilled today to announce the start of the PyCharm 2017.2 Early Access Preview (EAP) program along with the 2017.2 EAP contest!PyCharm 2017.2 Early Access Preview (EAP) 1...
View ArticlePyCon: Don’t Overlook the Open Spaces at PyCon this Year
[A guest post by PyCon 2017’s Open Spaces Chair, Anna Ossowski!]Open Spaces are one of the most often overlooked activities at the PyCon conference.PyCon is not merely a 5-track conference — it’s true...
View ArticlePython 4 Kids: 3: Getting Help
Book ref: Project 1 (pg 24ff)Python 2.7: SameSee also: Python 3/Project 4 postPython 3 comes with its own help facility. To use it, you simply type:>>> help() Welcome to Python 3.4's help...
View ArticleDaniel Bader: Stacks in Python
Stacks in PythonHow to implement a stack data structure (LIFO) in Python using built-in types and classes from the standard library.A stack is a collection of objects that supports fast last-in,...
View ArticleS. Lott: Needless Complexity -- Creating Havoc Leads to Mistakes
I received the worst code example ever. The. Worst.Here's the email.I have hurriedly created a blog post titled [omitted] at the url below[also omitted]...Unfortunately, I am neither an algorithm...
View ArticlePyBites: How to Parse Common Data Formats in Python
In this post we demonstrate ways in which you can parse common data formats used in Python.
View ArticleThomas Guest: Lazy sequences working hard
I gave a talk @PyDiff this evening in the computer science department at Cardiff University. Lazy Sequences working hardPython has no problem handling large and even infinite streams of data. Just...
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