Daily Tech Video (Python): [Video 308] Thomi Richards: Connascence in Python
“Connascence” is a way of describing the ways in which parts of software are interdependent, and can thus force changes upon other parts when they themselves are changed. In other words: Connascence...
View ArticleMike C. Fletcher: Talk accepted at PyCon.ca
So the schedule is up for PyCon.ca. My proposal got accepted, so I get to talk about fun things! Historically the conference sells out, so if you want to come you should likely get your tickets soon.
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Leonhard Vogt: Vertex Buffer Objects with Python3 and Pyglet
Calling some OpenGL functions from Python with pyglet can be a bit tricky due to fact that the functions are only thin wrappers around the C-API.My sample program demonstrates some calls for using...
View ArticlePyCon: We have issued our Call For Proposals
Have you ever dreamed of speaking in front of a conference crowd?Or of teaching a several-hour PyCon tutorial, that gives you the opportunity to lead an audience deep into the details of a technology...
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Python 4 Kids: Reviewers wanted
If you’ve got a relevant blog and are interested in reviewing my book Python for Kids for Dummies, the publishers have some review copies that can be sent out. Please use the contact form on the About...
View ArticlePodcast.__init__: Episode 24 - Griatch on Evennia
Visit our site to listen to past episodes, sign up for our mailing list and support the show.SummaryGriatch is an incredibly talented digital artist, professional astronomer and the maintainer of the...
View ArticleDjango Weblog: Call for nominations for the 2015 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial...
Two years ago, the Django Software Foundation established an award in the memory of Malcolm Tredinnick.Malcolm joined the Django core team in 2006, and many of Django's internals - including the ORM,...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #27 Four Years of Python for High Schoolers
Often people complain about the lack of developer skills in western countries like the United States and that problem is amplified when you consider typically under represented groups such as women and...
View ArticleS. Lott: Python 3.5 and the Upgrade Strategy
Start here: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.5.html#whatsnew-pep-484While new syntax is important, remember your audience in pitching the upgrade from Python 2.7. You may need to pander to people...
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PyCharm: Announcing the PyCharm Edu 2.0.1 release update
Having released PyCharm Edu 2 a couple of weeks ago, today we bring you PyCharm Edu 2.0.1, an updated version of our free, easy and professional tool for learning programming with Python.Download...
View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 309] Andrew Godwin: Dubious Database Design
Web applications generally have a database on the back end. But how should we structure that database? There are many ways to structure our database in a database, and some of them are far more...
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Evennia: Evennia on Podcast.__init__
So a few weeks back I was contacted by the general Python podcast Podcast.__init__. They had stumbled on Evennia and were intrigued about MUD development still going on - and in Python even! As it...
View ArticleKushal Das: tunir 0.8 is out
Last week I have released tunir 0.8. In this release I have fixed few bugs related to better logging. But most of the work was wnet on vagrant support. We now support both Virtualbox, and libvirt based...
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Alexey Evseev: Trying JSON in Django and PostgreSQL (and compare with MongoDB)
New JSONField will be added in Django 1.9, it can be used with PostgreSQL >= 9.4. Let's try to work with it and find out, in what situations it can be useful.Currently django 1.9 alpha is available,...
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Vasudev Ram: Find the caller and caller's caller of a Python function
By Vasudev RamWhile browsing some Python posts on the Net, I saw one that made use of the sys._getframe() function. I had seen that function before, and remembered that it returns information about...
View ArticleMontreal Python User Group: Python Project Night 11
Fall is beginning and Montréal-Python is inviting the Python community to its 11th "Project Night" event in the hearth of the Plateau Mont-Royal at the office of ours friends of Outbox...
View ArticleeGenix.com: eGenix PyRun - One file Python Runtime 2.1.1 GA
IntroductioneGenix PyRun™ is our open source, one file, no installation version of Python, making the distribution of a Python interpreter to run based scripts and applications to Unix based systems as...
View ArticleCodementor: Simple Python Snake Game using Curses
IntroductionHere is a good description of a Snake Game from wikipedia. Snake is a game where the player maneuvers a line which grows in length, with the line itself being a primary obstacle. There is...
View ArticleGraham Dumpleton: A new job and a new set of goals.
Okay, it isn’t quite a new job as I have already been there for over two months, but then for most of the past month I was on an extended family holiday which had been organised long before the idea of...
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Andrzej Skupień: Joe
In this article I write about Joe– Python tool that makes creating .gitignore files much easier.ProblemEvery time I create new project, there comes time, when I want to put it under git control and do...
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