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Evennia: Announcing the Evennia example-game project "Ainneve"
The Evennia example-game project is underway! I was quite impressed with the response I got on the mailing list to my call for developing an Evennia example game (see my Need your Help blog post).The...
View ArticleAstro Code School: Announcing Caktus Scholarships for Astro Code School
We’re very pleased to announce that Caktus Group will be sponsoring up to $20,000 worth of scholarships for Astro Code School students. There will be twenty $1,000 scholarships. We hope that these...
View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 213] David Beazley: Modules and Packages:...
Python makes extensive use of modules, and expects developers to make extensive use of them, too. But how do modules work? In this talk, David Beazley walks us through the ways in which modules and...
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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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بايثون العربي: كيفية إستخدام وحدة Platform في بايثون
أحيانا نحتاج الى معرفة نوع و خصائص ومعلومات عن النظام الذي تعمل عليه برامجنا خاصة تلك البرامج التي تتعامل مع الملفات وأوامر النظام ولهذا نستخدم وحدة platform في بايثون من أجل الحصول على بيانات ومعلومات...
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Matthew Rocklin: Distributed Scheduling
This work is supported by Continuum Analytics and the XDATA Program as part of the Blaze Projecttl;dr: We evaluate dask graphs with a variety of schedulers and introduce a new distributed memory...
View ArticleS. Lott: A plea to avoid sys.exit() [Updated]
Let me gripe about this for a moment.sys.exit()The use case for this function is limited. Very, very limited.Every place that this appears (except for one) is going to lead to reusability...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #13 Flask web framework and much, much more
Did you know that Flask has its origins in an April fools joke that unexpectedly took off? Listen in this week to hear about the history, current state, and future of Flask with its creator Armin...
View ArticleS. Lott: Literate Programming and GitHub
I remain captivated by the ideals of Literate Programming. My fork of PyLit (https://github.com/slott56/PyLit-3) coupled with Sphinx seems to handle LP programming in a very elegant way.It works like...
View ArticleRalph Bean: Speeding up that nose test suite.
Short post: I just discovered the --with-prof option to the nosetests command. It profiles your test suite by using the hotshot module from the Python standard library and it found a huge sore spot in...
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Python for biologists: A new programming book for non-biologists
Since writing and publishing Python for Biologists I occasionally get email from folks who found the books useful, and want to pass them on to non-scientist friends. This is, of course, very gratifying...
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BlueDynamics Alliance: Speedup "RelStorage with memcached" done right
RelStorage is a great option as backend for ZODB. RelStorage uses shared Memcached as second level cache for all instances storing to the same database.In comparision a classical ZEO-Client with its...
View ArticleGeert Vanderkelen: Jekyll 3.0 beta7, looking good
Putting on my adventure boots, I have installed Jekyll 3.0 beta7. Since Ruby and the whole gem realm is completely new to me, I expect things wrong to go sougth. But it wasn’t that bad. This blog post...
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Europython: Beginners’ Day
We’re pleased to announce a new venture at this year’s EuroPython…The Beginner’s DayIf you’re thinking of coming to the conference but you’re new to Python, this could be the session for you. Whether...
View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 215] Micah Yoder: PostgreSQL’s JSONB
In recent years, PostgreSQL has gained a number of facilities that were normally associated with NoSQL databases, such as a key-value store and JSON support. In the latest (9.4) release, the JSONB data...
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PyTexas: 2015 Registration Open
Registration is now open for PyTexas 2015. Make your way over to EventBrite to buy your ticket. The conference runs September 25th through the 27th and includes talks, tutorials, and meeting other...
View ArticleeGenix.com: eGenix mxODBC 3.3.3 GA
IntroductionmxODBC™ provides an easy-to-use, high-performance, reliable and robust Python interface to ODBC compatible databases such as MS SQL Server, Oracle Database, IBM DB2, Informix and Netezza,...
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PyCharm: PyCharm 4.5.3 RC is available
Today we’ve published the PyCharm 4.5.3 RC bug-fix update.The Release notes lists all fixes from the previous PyCharm 4.5.2 update. The most notable among them are:a number of fixes for Django support,...
View ArticleDjango Weblog: Django's Roadmap
Following over 3,000 responses to the Django Developers Community Survey and a long discussion on the django-developers mailing list, the Django team has adopted the following release schedule (subject...
View ArticleRichard Tew: Imaginary Realities source code
The Imaginary Realities web site is generated using Jinja2 from Python flat files. I've changed the repository from private to public, as there's no real reason to keep it shelved away. If my hosting...
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