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Carl Chenet: db2twitter: Twitter out of the browser
You have a database, a tweet pattern and wants to automatically tweet on a regular basis? No need for RSS, fancy tricks, 3rd party website to translate RSS to Twitter or whatever. Just use db2twitter....
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Will McGugan: Using a Raspberry Pi + Camera to Monitor the Nocturnal...
Raspberry Pis are useful little computers. I own several, since I work with them in my day job, and I thought it was about time I put one to use.I also happen to keep tropical insects. Specifically,...
View ArticleTarek Ziade: Should I use PYTHONOPTIMIZE ?
Yesterday, I was reviewing some code for our projects and in a PR I saw something roughly similar to this: try: assert hasattr(SomeObject, 'some_attribute') SomeObject.some_attribute() except...
View ArticleSemaphore Community: BDD Testing a Restful Web Application in Python
This article is brought with ❤ to you by Semaphore.IntroductionBehaviour-driven development allows you to describe how your application should behave, and drive the development of features by adding...
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Podcast.__init__: Episode 33 - Maneesha Sane on Software and Data Carpentry
Visit our site to listen to past episodes, support the show, and sign up for our mailing list.SummaryThe Software and Data Carpentry organizations have a mission of making it easier for scientists and...
View ArticleDataquest: How to setup a cloud data science environment using Docker and...
There are times when working on data science problems with your local machine just doesn’t cut it anymore. Maybe your computer is old, and can’t work with larger datasets. Or maybe you want to be able...
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Paul Everitt: Python virtualenvs: Inside project or outside?
I’m a dummy. I pulled the old “pretend to ask an honest question but really to confirm your belief” trick and, shockingly-not, got refuted. My small sample seems to like making their Python virtual...
View ArticleGrzegorz Śliwiński: Creating a timestamp in python - difference between...
If think most of python programmers realise that there are two ways of getting timestamp with only the help of stdlib libraries. It's time.mktime and weirdly placed calendar.timegm.There are two things...
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François Dion: Bond. James "import pandas" Bond
It all started when... [friend] I'm trying to get this table on wikipedia from python...[me]Sure. What module are you using? [friend] BeautifulSoup, but man, this is hard. It's this url...[me]...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: My Context Managers Article Got Turned Into a Screencast
Last month I wrote about context managers and a company called Webucator asked me for my permission to turn the article into a screencast. It ended up looking pretty good. Check it out below:Webucator...
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François Dion: Bridging the digital divide, $5 at a time
Going in the right directionAbout 3 years ago, I wrote a piece titled "Going in the wrong direction" (well worth your time, go ahead and read it). In it, I highlighted the issue of the high cost of...
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PyCharm: PyCharm 5.0.2 EAP build 143.1015.4 is Available
Today we announce the second early preview build of PyCharm 5.0.2. The list of bug fixes and improvements for this build can be found here.Some highlights of the PyCharm 5.0.2 build 143.1015.4...
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Programando Ciência: [EVENT] Programming Science at Python Brasil [11]
Hey scientist, how is it going? Today we’ll talk about our participation on Python Brasil [11]! We saw old buddies, met new bros and even had a gossip with David Beazley! Let’s do it! Python Brasil...
View ArticleChris Hager: Creating standalone Mac OS X applications with Python and py2app
In this tutorial we’ll be using py2app to create a standalone OSX application from a Python source code with a simple Tkinter user interface."py2app is a Python setuptools command which will allow you...
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Gaël Varoquaux: MLOSS 2015: wising up to building open-source machine...
NoteThe 2015 edition of the machine learning open source software (MLOSS) workshop was full of very mature discussions that I strive to report here.I give links to the videos. Some machine-learning...
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Daniel Bader: How to store photos in the cloud and avoid vendor lock-in
How to store photos in the cloud and avoid vendor lock-inI’ve been burned by relying 100% on a cloud service before. Some time ago a photographer friend convinced me to sign up for an awesome photo...
View ArticleReuven Lerner: Free Webinar: Data science with Python on December 8th
It’s time for me to do another free one-hour Webinar, this time about data science with Python. It’ll be on December 8th, at 9 p.m. GMT.Data science is all the rage, and rightly so — and Python is one...
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BangPypers: November talks 2015 meetup report
The November BangPypers talks happened at the Aerospike in Ejipura. 35 people attended the event. We had 4 talks, commenced at 10:30 AM.First talk was Android UI test automation by RajaniKanth Reddy....
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François Dion: Box office plot (the other kind)
Tables can obfuscate understandingAnd we have a follow up question on the Pandas read_html wikipedia James Bond article. Namely, how do we quickly visualize the data.It is true that the table we had in...
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Robert Collins: signalling via exit status in Python
A common idiom in non-trivial command line tools is to have more than two return codes. For instance, diff uses 0 for ‘same inputs’, 1 for ‘different inputs’, 2 for ‘trouble’.Doing that in Python is a...
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