Spyder IDE: Spyder featured on Episode 1 of Open Source Directions web show
Quansight, the company recently founded by NumPy, SciPy and Anaconda creator Travis Oliphant to help connect companies with open source communities built around data science and machine learning, just...
View ArticleCodementor: How to Build a Data Science Portfolio
How do you get a job in data science? Knowing enough statistics, machine learning, programming, etc to be able to get a job is difficult. One thing I have found lately is quite a few people may have...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 101: Episode #20 – The sys module
In this screencast, you will learn the basics of Python’s sys module from the standard library. You can also read the chapter this screencast is based on here or on LeanpubCheck out the entire Python...
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Semaphore Community: Getting Started with Mocking in Python
This article is brought with ❤ to you by Semaphore.IntroductionMocking is simply the act of replacing the part of the application you are testing with a dummy version of that part called a mock.Instead...
View ArticlePeter Bengtsson: Django lock decorator with django-redis
Here's the code. It's quick-n-dirty but it works wonderfully: importfunctoolsimporthashlibfromdjango.core.cacheimportcachefromdjango.utils.encodingimportforce_bytesdeflock_decorator(key_maker=None):"""...
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Djangostars: How to build your own blockchain for a financial product
Technologies are changing fast; people are not. – Jakob NielsenBlockchain is a relatively new technology that many deem is used only for buying Bitcoins. They try to implement it in whatever sphere...
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Spyder IDE: Spyder 3.3.0 and 3.3.1 released!
We're pleased to release the next significant update in the stable Spyder 3 line, 3.3.0, along with its follow-on bugfix point release, 3.3.1, which is now live on PyPI and conda. As always, you can...
View ArticleNed Batchelder: SQLite data storage for coverage.py
I’m starting to make some progress on Who Tests What. The first task is to change how coverage.py records the data it collects during execution. Currently, all of the data is held in memory, and then...
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Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8
We have released the 15.8 update to Visual Studio 2017. You will see a notification in Visual Studio within the next few days, or you can download the new installer from visualstudio.com.In this post,...
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Mike Driscoll: Book Contest: ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python
I recently released a new book entitled ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python. In celebration of a successful launch, I have decided to do a little contest.RulesPost a comment telling me why you would...
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Vasudev Ram: pyperclip, a cool Python clipboard module
By Vasudev RamI recently came across this neat Python library, pyperclip, while browsing the net. It provides programmatic copy-and-paste functionality. It's by Al Sweigart.pyperclip is very easy to...
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Mike Driscoll: Face Detection Using Python and OpenCV
Machine Learning, artificial intelligence and face recognition are big topics right now. So I thought it would be fun to see how easy it is to use Python to detect faces in photos. This article will...
View ArticlePyBites: How Promotions work in Large Corporations
We are stoked to have Cristian Medina (tryexceptpass.org) deliver our first soft skills article. He will go into depth on the topic of promotions and how to better position yourself as a developer. He...
View ArticleCodementor: Taming Snakes inside a Container
In this post, let's talk about taming snakes inside a container. The article is a summary of lessons learned while dockerizing python microservices. In case you want to see a detailed...
View ArticleImport Python: ImportPython - Issue 182
Worthy Read Continuous Delivery of Microservices - Parts 1 to 5 This blog series from Sheroy Marker cover the principles of CD of microservices. Get a practical guide on designing CD workflows for...
View ArticleReal Python: The Ultimate Guide to Django Redirects
When you build a Python web application with the Django framework, you’ll at some point have to redirect the user from one URL to another.In this guide, you’ll learn everything you need to know about...
View ArticleContinuum Analytics Blog: Introducing Skein: Deploy Python on Apache YARN the...
By Jim Crist *This post is reprinted with permission from Jim Crist’s blog. The original post can be found here.In this post, I introduce Skein, a new tool and library for deploying applications on...
View ArticlePeter Bengtsson: django-pipeline and Zopfli
tl;dr; I wrote my own extension to django-pipeline that uses Zopfli to create .gz files from static assets collected in Django. Here's the code.Nginx and GzipWhat I wanted was to continue to use...
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