Made With Mu: PortaMu - Making Mu Portable
(In this guest post, 14 year old Mu user and wunderkind Josh Lowe explains how to get Mu working on locked-down school computers running Windows. School network admins are going to go nuts over...
View ArticleBlue Yonder Tech: Oxidizing Python: Speeding up URL quoting by 10x using Rust
Motivation Recently a colleague of mine told me about a small bottleneck with url quoting since we are quoting a lot of storage keys at least once when loading or storing a dataset. To speed it up, we...
View ArticleChris Moffitt: Pandas Crosstab Explained
IntroductionPandas offers several options for grouping and summarizing data but this variety of options can be a blessing and a curse. These approaches are all powerful data analysis tools but it can...
View ArticlePythonClub - A Brazilian collaborative blog about Python: Trabalhando com...
Quando estamos escrevendo um código qualquer, possivelmente a expressão que mais utilizamos é o if. Para qualquer tarefas que buscamos automatizar ou problemas que buscamos resolver, sempre acabamos...
View ArticleReal Python: How to Round Numbers in Python
It’s the era of big data, and every day more and more business are trying to leverage their data to make informed decisions. Many businesses are turning to Python’s powerful data science ecosystem to...
View ArticleFull Stack Python: How to Add User Authentication to Flask Apps with Okta
User authentication is a basic feature in web applications so that people can create and access their own accounts. Unfortunately, there are many ways to improperly implement authentication. This...
View ArticlePeter Bengtsson: The ideal number of workers in Jest
tl;dr; Use --runInBand when running jest in CI and use --maxWorkers=3 on your laptop.We have a test suite that covers 236 tests across 68 suites and runs mainly a bunch of enzyme rendering of React...
View ArticleMade With Mu: Awesome Adafruit: Python, Lasers and Mu!
Limor ‘Ladyada’ Fried, founder of Adafruit and maker extraordinaire, has just released a video demonstrating LIDAR (laser based distance measurement) with CircuitPython and Mu.The source code and...
View ArticlePodcast.__init__: Building A Game In Python At PyWeek with Daniel Pope
Many people learn to program because of their interest in building their own video games. Once the necessary skills have been acquired, it is often the case that the original idea of creating a game is...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: How to Export Jupyter Notebooks into Other Formats
When working with Jupyter Notebook, you will find yourself needing to distribute your Notebook as something other than a Notebook file. The most likely reason is that you want to share the content of...
View ArticlePyBites: A Short Primer on Assembers, Compilers and Interpreters
A gentle introduction to the historical evolution of programming practices.BeginningsIn the early days of computing, hardware was expensive and programmers were cheap. In fact, programmers were so...
View ArticlePyBites: Code Challenge 53 - Query the Spotify API - Review
In this article we review last week's Query the Spotify API code challenge. Reminder: new structure review post / Hacktoberfest is back!From now on we will merge our solution into our Community branch...
View ArticlePyBites: Code Challenge 54 - Python Clipboard History
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - A. EinsteinHey Pythonistas,It's time for another code challenge! This week we're asking you to create your own Clipboard...
View ArticlePyCon: Hatchery Program Returns for 2019
PyCon is known around the world as the Python community’s premier event, attracting people from 39 countries. Outside of the main track of talks, PyCon is home to a growing number of events such as...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python: World’s Most Popular Language in 2018
According to The Economist, Python is “becoming the world’s most popular coding language”.Here’s a chart that shows how popular the language is:There’s a lot of interesting information in that article...
View ArticlePython Engineering at Microsoft: Python in Visual Studio Code – September...
We are pleased to announce that the September 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the marketplace, or install it...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 101: Episode #28 – An intro to Testing
In this episode, you will learn the basics of using Python’s doctest and unittest modules.You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on LeanpubRelated ArticlesPython 3...
View ArticleContinuum Analytics Blog: Bringing Dataframe Acceleration to the GPU with...
Today we are excited to talk about the RAPIDS GPU dataframe release along with our partners in this effort: NVIDIA, BlazingDB, and Quansight. RAPIDS is the culmination of 18 months of open source...
View ArticlePython Software Foundation: Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q3...
We are happy to announce our 2018 3rd Quarter Python Software Foundation Fellow Members: Stefan BehnelBlog, GithubAndrew GodwinWebsite, TwitterDavid MarkeyEduardo MendesGithub, Twitter, LinkedInClaudiu...
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