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Paul Everitt: New adventure, PyCharm Developer Advocate at JetBrains
At the start of October, I began a new adventure. I’m the PyCharm and WebStorm Developer Advocate at JetBrains. More of the former, some of the latter. This morning JetBrains published the introductory...
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Podcast.__init__: Episode 27 - Trent Nelson on PyParallel
Visit our site to listen to past episodes, support the show, and sign up for our mailing list.SummaryTrent Nelson is a software engineer working with Continuum Analytics and a core contributor to...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: Twitter bot using Google Spreadsheets in Python
This blog posts shows how to build a Twitter bot using Google Spreadsheets as data source in Python.The service presented here was originally created for a friend of mine who works in Megacorp Inc....
View ArticleDavy Mitchell: New PyGame Windows Installers
Re-awakening this blog with a bit of PyGame news worth sharing... It's no secret that PyGame is my favourite library for Python and it is great to see x86 (32-bit) Windows installers being made...
View ArticleAndre Roberge: from __experimental__ import something_new : running scripts...
EDIT: I just found out that the notation "from __experimental__ import"had already been suggested in a different context than the one I have been working on. Perhaps I should use "__nonstandard__"...
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Jeremy Epstein: Cookies can't be more than 4KiB in size
Did you know: you can't reliably store more than 4KiB (4096 bytes) of data in a single browser cookie? I didn't until this week. What, I can't have my giant cookie and eat it too? Outrageous!Image...
View ArticleKay Hayen: Nuitka Release 0.5.15
This is to inform you about the new stable release of Nuitka. It is the extremely compatible Python compiler. Please see the page "What is Nuitka?" for an overview.This release enables SSA based...
View ArticleDavid MacIver: A whirlwind tour of the Hypothesis build
I’m so used to it at this point that I occasionally forget that one of the innovative things about Hypothesis is its ludicrously complicated build set up. Some of it is almost certainly better than...
View ArticleGeorges Dubus: Through the lens of Haskell: exploring new ideas for library...
At EuroPython 2014, there was a talk about "What Python can learn from Haskell", which was very interesting, and seems to have sparkled the PEP 484 (type annotations in python 3.5). This shows once...
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Mike Driscoll: Book Review: Mastering Python High Performance
Packt Publishing recently sent me a copy of Mastering Python High Performance by Fernando Doglio. They also had me be a technical reviewer of the book before its publication. Anyway let’s do a quick...
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Import Python: Conversation with Matt Makai of FullStackPython.com
Matt Makai (@mattmakai) is a Twilio Developer Evangelist based in San Francisco, CA where he builds open source applications in Python and Swift. Matt spoke at EuroPython on "Full Stack Python" and...
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Toshio Kuratomi: Dear Lazyweb, how would you nicely bundle python code?
I’ve been looking into bundling the python six library into ansible because it’s getting painful to maintain compatibility with the old versions on some distros. However, the distribution developer in...
View ArticleAnkit Chandawala: Ordered class members in python
Recently I came across this problem where I had to list all the members of a class in the order in which they were declared. Normally, to list all the members of the class, one would use dir to get all...
View ArticlePyCon Australia 2012 and 2013: On burnout, resigning, and coming back to life
Fun story: I quit my job last week.Somewhat ironically, the first time I’m really writing on this blog about what has been my day job for the last 3-ish years is writing about leaving it.I don’t have...
View ArticleNicola Iarocci: My talk at Percona Live 2015
The slides of my talk at Amsterdam Percona Live 2015 are online. It was titled “MongoDB and REST APIs a Match Made in Heaven” and it was meant as an introduction to Mongo, REST principles and the Eve...
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Eli Bendersky: Directed graph traversal, orderings and applications to...
When traversing trees with DFS, orderings are easy to define: we have pre-order, which visits a node before recursing into its children; in-order, which visits a node in-between recursing into its...
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PyCharm: Announcing PyCharm 5 EAP 143.308: Thread Concurrency Visualization
Hello everyone,Today we bring you PyCharm 5 EAP build 143.308 with Thread Concurrency Visualization for multi-threaded applications, App Config Tool for Google App Engine projects, support for IPython...
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PyPy Development: PowerPC backend for the JIT
Hi all,PyPy's JIT now supports the 64-bit PowerPC architecture! This is the third architecture supported, in addition to x86 (32 and 64) and ARM (32-bit only). More precisely, we support Linux running...
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...
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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis: Survey: How Do You Use Python With MongoDB?
The Python ecosystem is varied, and at MongoDB we've done our best to support our varied users.PyMongo, the mainstream official driver, supports most use cases: Python 2 and 3, in threaded or Gevent...
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