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Python 4 Kids: Python for Kids Book: Project 9
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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This week we welcome Matthew Nuzum as our PyDev of the Week. Matthew has recently completed a Django training video that is being published by Packt Publishing. Let’s spend some time getting to know...
View ArticleDoing Math with Python: Set operations with Python set compared to SymPy's...
Chapter 5 (About) of the book discusses working with mathematical sets in Python. While writing the chapter, I had a choice of whether to use Python 3's built-in set data structure or use SymPy's...
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Jeff Bradberry: Introduction to Monte Carlo Tree Search
The subject of game AI generally begins with so-called perfect information games. These are turn-based games where the players have no information hidden from each other and there is no element of...
View ArticleNed Batchelder: How many errors?
A co-worker mentioned to me the other day that our test runner would run methods with the word "test" in the name, even if they didn't start with "test_". This surprised him and me, so I went looking...
View ArticlePython Anywhere: Outage report: 5 September 2015
From 20:30 to 23:50 UTC on 5 September, there were a number of problems on PythonAnywhere. Our own site, and those of our customers, were generally up and running, but were experiencing intermittent...
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Python Insider: Python 3.5.0 Release Candidate 3 released
Python 3.5.0rc3 is now available for download.This is a preview release, and its use is not recommended for production settings. However, as the final scheduled "release candidate", it should be...
View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 287] A. Jesse Jiryu Davis: How Do Python...
Coroutines are an advanced Python feature that is of growing interest to many Python developers. Coroutines can be hard to get your head around, but they make it possible to simplify certain types of...
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Yasoob Khalid: Nice tutorials I bumped into recently
Hi guys! I am in the USA right now. I am here to attend a Hackathon at the University of Michigan called MHacks 6. This is my first ever Hackathon so I am very excited. So now without wasting any time...
View ArticlePeter Hoffmann: PyScaffold - Easy setup of a Python project with a bliss
Setting up a Python project is usually quite boring, cumbersome and definitely repetitive. This is exactly where PyScaffold excels. You create the structure of your package with package folder, test...
View ArticleMike C. Fletcher: Old School GPGPU is Frustrating
So I burned the evening on trying to get a working GPGPU implementation for my desktop/workstation and laptop.Started off with PyOpenCL, but wound up blocked on that due to libcffi failing with some...
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Python 4 Kids: Python for Kids Book: Project 10
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...
View Article"Menno's Musings": TLS Changes in IMAPClient 1.0
IMAPClient 1.0 is really close to being done now and it's going to be one of the biggest releases in its history (thanks largely to the support of the good people at Nylas).The headline feature of this...
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Podcast.__init__: Episode 22 - Bryan Van de Ven on Bokeh
Visit our site to listen to past episodes, subscribe to our mailing list, and donate to the show.SummaryBryan Van de Ven is the project maintainer for Bokeh, a plotting and visualization toolkit that...
View ArticleMontreal Python User Group: Montréal-Python 54: Virtualized Utopia
We've got so many great propositions of talks for our first event of the season. We are very excited to welcome you next Monday at UQAM. It is your opportunity to meet the Python Community of Montreal...
View ArticleKushal Das: tunir 0.7 is out
Today I have released Tunir 0.7. Tunir is a simple CI which developers can even use in their laptops. There are few major changes in this release. The first one is about no database support. Tunir...
View ArticleEuroPython Society: General Assembly 2015: Records available
At our General Assembly during EuroPython 2015, we voted in a new board:Fabio Pliger, Chair PersonBorja AyerdiOier Echaniz BeneitezDr. Darya ChyzhykMarc-André LemburgAnthon van der NeutDr. Alexandre...
View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 288] Hillary Green-Lerman: The Science of...
Data science is all about working large data sets. Data scientists often perform experiments, in order to find interesting and useful correlations. But it’s easy to perform analyses that aren’t...
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Python Insider: Python 3.5.0 Release Candidate 4 released
Python 3.5.0rc4 is now available for download.This is a last-minute bugfix release before 3.5.0 final, to fix a major regression found during the testing of Python 3.5.0rc3.This is a preview release,...
View ArticleCodementor: Extending Apache Pig with Python UDFs
(image source)IntroductionApache Pig is a popular system for executing complex Hadoop map-reduce based data-flows. It adds a layer of abstraction on top of Hadoop’s map-reduce mechanisms in order to...
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