Dataquest: Introduction to Functional Programming in Python
Most of us have been introduced to Python as an object-oriented language; a language exclusively using classes to build our programs. While classes, and objects, are easy to start working with, there...
View ArticleA. Jesse Jiryu Davis: Embed Interns In Your Team, Don't Assign Them Science...
It’s only January, but at MongoDB we’re already planning what our summer interns should work on. We have two tracks for interns:Team Track: Interns are integrated in a team for the duration of the...
View ArticleData School: 9 new pandas updates that will save you time
Since launching my Python pandas video series in 2016, there have been 10 new releases of the pandas library, including hundreds of new features, bug fixes, and API changes. I was running version 0.18...
View ArticleYasoob Khalid: DocRaptor review
Hi everyone, I was recently contacted by the folks at DocRaptor telling me about their service so I decided to take it for a test drive and see for myself what it actually is.DocRaptor provides you...
View ArticleYasoob Khalid: How I got into programming
Hi everyone! I hope all of you are doing great. If you have been following my blog for a while and keeping a lookout at the comments then you might know a bit about me. If you don’t then today I am...
View ArticleAmit Saha: Data in CPython
When writing programs in Python (CPython), you have access to data types such as a int, str, tuple, list and a dict. It is fairly obvious what each of these data types would be used to represent: an...
View ArticlePyCon: ¡Presentamos el track de PyCon Charlas!
Nos alegra anunciar el primer programa de la "Hatchery" (incubadora) en la historia de la PyCon: “PyCon Charlas”. PyCon Charlas será un día entero con un track de charlas en español abierto a toda la...
View ArticleSandipan Dey: Image Colorization Using Optimization in Python
This article is inspired by this SIGGRAPH paper by Levin et. al, for which they took this patent , the paper was referred to in the course CS1114 from Cornell. Some part of the problem description is...
View ArticleAnarcat: A summary of my 2017 work
New years are strange things: for most arbitrary reasons, around January 1st we reset a bunch of stuff, change calendars and forget about work for a while. This is also when I forget to do my monthly...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #148 Python Book Authors' Panel Discussion
Are you a fan of developer and technical books? Ever wonder what went into the writing of your favorite Python book? This week we peek inside the world of book authorship with a panel of renowned...
View ArticleMatthew Rocklin: Write Dumb Code
The best way you can contribute to an open source project is to remove lines of code from it.We should endeavor to write code that a novice programmer can easily understand without explanation or that...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cx) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2018-01-27 21:56:12 GMT[] = (), () = (), and {} = () 'assignments' -...
View ArticleEvennia: Kicking into gear from a distance
The last few weeks I have reworked the way Evennia's startup procedure works. This is now finished in the develop branch so I thought I'd mention a little what's going on.Evennia, being a server for...
View ArticleSumana Harihareswara - Cogito, Ergo Sumana: Preserving Threading In Google...
Have you ever wanted to reply to a mailing list post that wasn't in your inbox? I had that problem yesterday; here's how I fixed it. Context: I'm the project manager for Warehouse, the software behind...
View ArticleSimple is Better Than Complex: How to Implement Dependent/Chained Dropdown...
Dependent or chained dropdown list is a special field that relies on a previously selected field so to display a list of filtered options. A common use case is on the selection of state/province and...
View ArticleKushal Das: The Onion service to access my blog
I am happy to announce the availability of my website as an Onion hidden service at http://kushal76uaid62oup5774umh654scnu5dwzh4u2534qxhcbi4wbab3ad.onion/. This is a complete different instance than...
View ArticleLow Kian Seong: Day 2 of 7 days of fasting
Day 2 (48 hour mark)Feeling: There was a fair bit of back pain at about 11 am to 3 pm but after that it went away. I don't feel any hunger. Today I am doing a dry fast. - Tiredness: None just don't...
View ArticleCodementor: Advanced Python Debugging with pdb
Debug your Python code faster with these pdb tips.
View ArticleMike Driscoll: ANN: ReportLab PDF Processing with Python Kickstarter
Have you ever wondered how to create PDFs programmatically? If so, then this is the book for you! In ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python, you will learn how to generate PDFs using the popular Python...
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