Vladimir Iakolev: py.test plugin for functional testing with Docker
It's very useful to run functional tests in a clean environment, like a fresh Docker container, and I wrote about this before, and now it was formalized in a simple py.test plugin —...
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PyPy Development: PyPy warmup improvements
Hello everyone!I'm very pleased to announce that we've just managed to merge the optresult branch. Under this cryptic name is the biggest JIT refactoring we've done in a couple years, mostly focused on...
View ArticleWesley Chun: Creating events in Google Calendar from Python
NOTE: The code covered in this blogpost is also available in a video walkthrough here. IntroductionSo far in this series of blogposts covering authorized Google APIs, we've used Python code to access...
View ArticlePeter Bengtsson: Be careful with using dict() to create a copy
Everyone who's done Python for a while soon learns that dicts are mutable. I.e. that they can change. One way of "forking" a dictionary into two different ones is to create a new dictionary object with...
View ArticleDjango Weblog: New options for donating to the DSF
Earlier this year, the DSF launched a fundraising campaign to help pay for the Django Fellowship. That campaign was extremely successful, hitting the fundraising target in just six days.However, we...
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Carl Chenet: Retweet 0.3: retweet given tweet popularity
Follow me on Identi.ca or Twitter or Diaspora* Don’t know Retweet? My last post about it introduced this small Twitter bot whichs aims to retweet every tweets from a Twitter account to another one....
View ArticleLeonardo Giordani: A simple example of Python OOP development (with TDD) -...
In the first part of this small series I introduced you to TDD with Python by means of the powerful py.test package. We developed together a simple library which provides a Binary class that is a bit...
View ArticlePeter Bengtsson: peepin - a great companion to peep
I actually wrote peepin several months ago but forgot to blog about it. It's a great library that accompanies peep which is a wrapper on top ofpip. Actually, it's for pip install. When you normally do...
View ArticleDoing Math with Python: Chapter code and Errata
You can find the chapter programs and snippets linked from the programs page. They should be free from any error mentioned on the errata) page.Stay in touchYou can stay connected with the book, its...
View ArticleOmaha Python Users Group: September 16 Meeting Details
Topic/Speaker – Getting a Django Project Started / Keith NickumLocation – Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture Office in the Tip Top Building at 1516 Cuming Street.Meeting starts at 6:30 pm, Wednesday,...
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Ruslan Spivak: Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter. Part 4.
Have you been passively learning the material in these articles or have you been actively practicing it? I hope you’ve been actively practicing it. I really do :) Remember what Confucius said?“I hear...
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Codementor: Building Data Products with Python: A Wine Review Website using...
IntroductionWith this tutorial, we start a series of tutorials about how to build data products with Python. As a leitmotif we want to build a web-based wine reviews and recommendations website using...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #24 Fluent Python
Are you fluent in Python or do you speak the language with an accent? Maybe you have a hint of C++ in your for-in loop or even a little C# coming through in your function names....
View ArticleBrian Okken: Test Fixtures: Setup, Teardown, and so much more (PT004)
Setup and Teardown Benefits of Test Fixtures code reuse cleanup of resources errors vs failures focusing your thinking on what you are testing and what you are not scoping for efficiency Brief look at...
View ArticlePython Piedmont Triad User Group: Coming to our senses for Project Night...
Raspberry Pi Sense Hat, that is.Continuing the UAV quadcopter project. We have an assembled frame, one frame ready to be assembled, we have micro sd cards ready to be flashed with different distros (we...
View ArticleGlyph Lefkowitz: Software You Can Use
Python has a big problem. While it’s easy and fun to produce software in Python, it’s hard to produce software that people - especially laypeople who are not professional software developers - can...
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Daniel Greenfeld: Titlecasing Markdown Headers with Python
Recently I've been writing a lot of Markdown. While not as sophisticated as ReStructuredText, it's simplicity is nice for accelerated writing. The problem is that I like to put section headings in...
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BangPypers: September 2015 workshop report
The September BangPypers workshop happened at the Akamai Technologies office near Bellandur.The workshop was an introduction to data analysis. The presenters were Bargav and Amith...
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Glyph Lefkowitz: Connecting To A Server On The Internet [Nightmare Difficulty]
The SetupI recently switched internet service providers, from Comcast to WebPass. Comcast had been progressively upgrading our connection, and I honestly didn’t have any complaints, but WebPass is four...
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Codementor: Building a Movie Recommendation Service with Apache Spark &...
This Apache Spark tutorial goes into detail into how to use Spark machine learning models, or even another kind of data analytics objects, within a web service. This open the door to on-line...
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