eGenix.com: eGenix mxODBC Connect 2.1.5 GA
IntroductionThe mxODBC Connect™ Database Interface for Python allows users to easily connect Python applications to all major databases on the market today in a highly portable, convenient and secure...
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Python Software Foundation: Twisted Trial Ported to Python 3!
Twisted, as many of you know, is an asynchronous, or event driven networking framework written in Python (https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki). Twisted has been around for about a decade, offers many...
View ArticleDavy Wybiral: Visualizing popular machine learning algorithms
I put together an experiment to compare different classification machine learning algorithms in real time to gain insight into which ones handle certain situations better than others:...
View ArticleABlog for Sphinx: ABlog v0.8.1 released
ABlog v0.8.1 is released to fix atom feed linking in HTML header (issue 54).
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Podcast.__init__: Episode 28 - Kay Hayen on Nuitka
Visit our site to listen to past episodes, support the show, and sign up for our mailing list.SummaryKay Hayen is a systems engineer from Germany who has dedicated his spare time to the creation of...
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John Cook: Distance to Mars
The distance between the Earth and Mars depends on their relative positions in their orbits and varies quite a bit over time. This post will show how to compute the approximate distance over time....
View ArticleBangPypers: October 2015 meetup report
The October BangPypers talks happened at the Belong in Jeevan Bhima Nagar. 50 - 60 people attended the event on a loooong weekend, total RSVP was 96! Talks commenced at 10:15 AM.First talks was How to...
View ArticleKay Hayen: Nuitka on Podcast __init__
So, if you want to get to know Nuitka or me, there is a really good interview from the popular podcast "__init__" online.Kay Hayen on NuitkaI think it's very good at explaining things, putting it into...
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Holger Peters: Why I use py.test
Writing readable and maintainable unit tests is crucial to the success of your Python project. For Python, the unittest module, nosetests and py.test are the most commonly used framework for writing...
View ArticlePython Anywhere: Security advisory: please change your PythonAnywhere MySQL...
tl;dr: On 19 November we were notified of a security vulnerability on PythonAnywhere. It could not have been used to access files on your PythonAnywhere storage, including your code, nor was any...
View ArticleDjango Weblog: Introducing the DSF's Director of Advancement
In January of this year, the DSF ran a fundraising campaign with the intention of funding the DSF Fellowship. This fundraising drive enabled us to fund the Fellow for almost all of 2015.However, since...
View Article"Menno's Musings": IMAPClient 1.0.0
IMAPClient 1.0.0 is finally here! This is a monster release, bursting with new features and fixes.Here's the highlights:Enhanced TLS support: The way that IMAPClient establishes TLS connections has...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #35 Turbogears and the future of Python web frameworks
Do you have a new web project coming up? Are you thinking of choosing Django or maybe Flask? Those are excellent frameworks, but you might also want to check out TurboGears.<more></more> It...
View ArticleS. Lott: Navigation: Latitude, Longitude, Haversine, and all that
For a few years, I was a tech nomad. See Team Red Cruising for some stories of life on a sailboat. Warning: it's pretty dull.As a tech nomad, I lived and died (literally) by my ability to navigate....
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John Cook: Estimating the exponent of discrete power law data
Suppose you have data from a discrete power law with exponent α. That is, the probability of an outcome n is proportional to n-α. How can you recover α?A naive approach would be to gloss over the fact...
View ArticleRobin Wilson: Calculating percentiles in Python – use numpy not scipy!
This is just a brief public service announcement reporting something that I’ve just found: np.percentile is a lot faster than scipy.stats.scoreatpercentile– almost an order of magnitude faster in some...
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Paul Everitt: My O’Reilly video series on Pyramid is up
Earlier this year, just before PyCon, I talked to O’Reilly about doing a Pyramid video course in their commercial training catalog. It’s now in “early access”, titled “Web Applications with Python and...
View ArticleNed Batchelder: Coverage.py 4.0.3
I fixed five bugs in coverage.py 4.0.2 to produce coverage.py 4.0.3. XML reports now have correct <source> elements in complex cases, and a mysterious problem that seriously borked really unusual...
View ArticleDjango Weblog: Security releases issued: 1.9rc2, 1.8.7, 1.7.11
In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing multiple releases -- Django 1.7.11, 1.8.7, and 1.9 release candidate 2. These releases are now available on PyPI and our...
View ArticleGiampaolo Rodola: OpenBSD support for psutil
OK, this is a big one: starting from version 3.3.0 (released just now) psutil will officially support OpenBSD platforms. This was contributed by Landry Breuil (thanks dude!) and myself in PR #615. The...
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