"Menno's Musings": Introduction to attrs
I've just published a Jupyter Notebook I used to present an introduction to the excellent Python attrs package at the November 2018 Christchurch Python meetup.You can find it on Github.
View ArticleNed Batchelder: Coverage.py 5.0a4: the sys.path to hell
Another alpha of Coverage.py 5.0 is available: 5.0a4. This fixes a few problems with the new SQLite-based storage. Please give it a try, especially to experiment with dynamic contexts. The challenge...
View ArticlePodcast.__init__: Using Calibre To Keep Your Digital Library In Order with...
Digital books are convenient and useful ways to have easy access to large volumes of information. Unfortunately, keeping track of them all can be difficult as you gain more books from different...
View ArticleTest and Code: 54: Python 1994 - Paul Everitt
Paul talks about the beginning years of Python. Talking about Python's beginnings is also talking about the Python community beginnings. Yes, it's reminiscing, but it's fun.Special Guest: Paul...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Reimar Bauer
This week we welcome Reimar Bauer (@ReimarBauer) as our PyDev of the Week! Reimar is a core developer of the popular Python wiki package, MoinMoin. He has spoken at PyCON DE, FOSDEM and EuroPython...
View ArticleKushal Das: Building wheels and Debian packages for SecureDrop on Qubes OS
For the last couple of months, the SecureDrop team is working on a new set of applications + system for the journalists, which are based on Qubes OS, and desktop application written particularly for...
View Articlegamingdirectional: Create an explosion manager and explosion class for pygame...
In this article we will create an explosion manager as well as an explosion class to manage the on scene explosions but first of all lets watch the raw video below which shows the explosions on the...
View ArticleMade With Mu: Contributor Focus: Zander Brown
Mu is not a solo effort. Many folks have contributed to Mu, and I will be eternally grateful for their work. With the spirit of recognising the voluntary contributions of others in mind, I’m going to...
View ArticleReuven Lerner: Last chance to save 40% on Python and Git courses
Today (Monday) is the last day to benefit from my weekend sale, with 40% off of my books and courses! Just enter the coupon code “BF2018” for any product , and take 40% off.This offer includes my new...
View ArticleMichael Foord: Selenium, jQuery and File uploads
One of the contracts I’ve been working on recently is working with Gurock building a test automation system for a PHP application, their test management app TestRail. As well as building the...
View ArticleReal Python: Continuous Integration with Python: An Introduction
When writing code on your own, the only priority is making it work. However, working in a team of professional software developers brings a plethora of challenges. One of those challenges is...
View ArticleJames Bennett: Truths programmers should know about case
A couple weeks ago I gave a talk about usernames at North Bay Python. The content came mostly from things I’ve learned in roughly 12 years of maintaining django-registration, which has taught me more...
View ArticleErik Marsja: Pandas Read CSV Tutorial
In this tutorial we will learn how to work with comma separated (CSV) files in Python and Pandas. We will get an overview of how to use Pandas to load CSV to dataframes and how to write dataframes to...
View ArticleTrey Hunner: Python Cyber Monday Sales
I’m running a sale that ends in 24 hours, but I’m not the only one. This post is a compilation of the different Cyber Monday deals I’ve found related to Python and Python learning.Python Morsels weekly...
View ArticleGuido van Rossum: What do do with your computer science career
I regularly receive questions from students in the field of computer science looking for career advice.Here's an answer I wrote to one of them. It's not comprehensive or anything, but I thought people...
View ArticleRene Dudfield: pygame 2 update - the examples all work
🎮👾👽🎮👾👽🎮👾👽🎮👾👽examples/chimp.py works👽🎮👾👽🎮👾👽🎮👾👽🎮👾That's a nice milestone for pygame 2 development.(and also, now these examples also work... python -m pygame.examples.aliens python -m...
View ArticleMatthew Rocklin: Anatomy of an OSS Institutional Visit
I recently visited the UK Meteorology Office, a moderately large organization that serves the weather and climate forecasting needs of the UK (and several other nations). I was there with other open...
View Articlegamingdirectional: Create a score manager class for pygame project
In this article we will create a score manager class to render the player score on the scene for our pygame project. At the moment we will only increase the score of the player each time the player’s...
View ArticleStack Abuse: Asynchronous vs Synchronous Python Performance Analysis
IntroductionThis article is the second part of a series on using Python for developing asynchronous web applications. The first part provides a more in-depth coverage of concurrency in Python and...
View ArticleAnwesha Das: Upgraded my blog to Ghost 2.6
I have been maintaining my blog. It is a self hosted Ghost blog, where I have my theme as Casper, the Ghost default. In the recent past, September 2018, Ghost has updated its version to 2.0. Now it is...
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