Trey Hunner: Craft Your Python Like Poetry
Line length is a big deal… programmers argue about it quite a bit. PEP 8, the Python style guide, recommends a 79 character maximum line length but concedes that a line length up to 100 characters is...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python is #1 in 2017 According to IEEE Spectrum
It’s always fun to see what languages are considered to be in the top ten. This year, IEEE Spectrum named Python as the #1 language in the Web and Enterprise categories. Some of the Python community...
View ArticleKevin Dahlhausen: Using Beets from 3rd Party Python Applications
I am thinking of using Beets as music library to update a project. The only example of using it this way is in the source code of the Beets command-line interface. That code is well-written but does...
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Catalin George Festila: Fix Gimp with python script.
Today I will show you how python language can help GIMP users.From my point of view, Gimp does not properly import frames from GIF files.This program imports GIF files in this way:Using the python...
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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis: Vote For Your Favorite PyGotham Talks
We received 195 proposals for talks at PyGotham this year. Now we have to find the best 50 or so. For the first time, we’re asking the community to vote on their favorite talks. Voting will close...
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Python Software Foundation: 2017 Bylaw Changes
The PSF has changed its bylaws, following a discussion and vote among the voting members. I'd like to publicly explain those changes.For each of the changes, I will describe 1.) what the bylaws used...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #122 Home Assistant: Pythonic Home Automation
The past few years have seen an explosion of IoT devices. Many of these are for the so-called smart home. Their true potential lies in the ability to coordinate and automate them as a group....
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PyCharm: PyCharm 2017.2 Out Now: Docker Compose on Windows, SSH Agent and more
PyCharm 2017.2 is out now! Get it today for Docker Compose support on Windows, SSH Agent, Azure Databases, and Amazon Redshift support.Get it from our websiteWe’ve added some small improvements for...
View ArticleCatalin George Festila: The gtts python module.
This python module named gtts will create an mp3 file from spoken text via the Google TTS (Text-to-Speech) API.The installation of the gtts python module under Windows 10.C:\Python27\Scripts>pip...
View ArticleThe Three of Wands: attrs I: The Basics
This is the first article in my series on the inner workings of attrs.Attrs is a Python library for defining classes a different (much better) way. The docs can be found at attrs.readthedocs.org and...
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DataCamp: New Python Course: Data Types for Data Science
Hello Python users! New course launching today: Data Types for Data Science by Jason Myers!Have you got your basic Python programming chops down for Data Science but are yearning for more? Then this is...
View ArticleTarek Ziade: Python Microservices Development
My new book, Python Microservices Development is out!The last time I wrote a book, I was pretty sure I would not write a new one -- or at least not about Python. Writing a book is a lot of work.The...
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PyPy Development: Binary wheels for PyPy
Hi, this is a short blog post, just to announce the existence of this Github repository, which contains binary PyPy wheels for some selected packages. The availability of binary wheels means that you...
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Continuum Analytics News: Open Sourcing Anaconda Accelerate
Developer BlogThursday, July 27, 2017Stan SeibertDirector, Community InnovationWe’re very excited to announce the open sourcing and splitting of the proprietary Anaconda Accelerate library into several...
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Data School: Web scraping the President's lies in 16 lines of Python
Note: This tutorial is also available as a Jupyter notebook, which can be downloaded from GitHub.SummaryThis an introductory tutorial on web scraping in Python. All that is required to follow along is...
View ArticleCalvin Spealman: Game Development is Hard, Okay? 5 Things That Suck About...
Game development is hard. I mean, really hard and everyone knows it. You probably won’t finish your game. You probably didn’t finish several games before it. You’ll probably start some more games...
View ArticlePython Bytes: #36 Craft Your Python Like Poetry and Other Musings
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View ArticleBrad Lucas: Ethereum Get Eth Balance Script
The site Etherscan allows you retrieve information on accounts and transactions. There is an interface to the Reposten testnet as well. While doing some work on a project I was monitoring the page to...
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Amjith Ramanujam: FuzzyFinder - in 10 lines of Python
Introduction:FuzzyFinder is a popular feature available in decent editors to open files. The idea is to start typing partial strings from the full path and the list of suggestions will be narrowed down...
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