Wesley Chun: Migrating to the new Google Drive API v3
NOTE: The code covered in this and the previous post are also available in a video walkthrough. IntroductionIn a blog post last week, we introduced readers to performing uploads and downloads files...
View ArticleAndre Roberge: Planning to drop CoffeeScript support for Reeborg's World
When I started working on Reeborg's World, I thought it would eventually be a good site to learn the basics of various programming languages, with fun puzzles to solve. However, I found that it myself...
View ArticleGraham Dumpleton: Unknown user when running Docker container.
In the last post we covered how to setup a Docker image to cope with the prospect of a random user ID being used when the Docker container was started. The discussion so far has though only dealt with...
View ArticleImport Python: ImportPython Issue 55
The latest issue of ImportPython Newsletter is out - Issue No 55 - Click Here To Read.
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Codementor: Python Internals: Codementor Office Hours with Martijn Pieters
See the video here: Stack Overflow Legend Martijn Pieters: Python Optimization and How it Can Affect Your CodeStack Overflow #1 Python Answerer Martijn Pieters Codementor Python expert mentor Martijn...
View ArticleAbu Ashraf Masnun: Homebrew & Pyenv: Installing PyQT5 with Python3 on OSX
There was a time back in 2014 and earlier when PyQT5 installation was not straightforward and needed manual compilation. When searching on Google, still those posts come up on top results. But nothing...
View ArticleObey the Testing Goat: Testing, async, asyncio, and performance
I recently did some experimenting with asyncio, and wanted to report back on how I got on with writing tests for it. While I was at it I was also able to compare its performance with a couple of other...
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François Dion: Exploring NFL data through visualization
Exploring NFL data through visualization Today, we'll go with our first option, download data from http://nflsavant.com as csv using wget. We can then load this local file using pandas read_csv....
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François Dion: Raspberry #PiZero & MagP1
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View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 396] Robert Layton: Predicting sports...
We keep hearing about big data and data science. But how can these disciplines be used with real-world cases? What sort of data is appropriate for data science? And how can we apply Python‘s many...
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Kushal Das: Home storage cluster with Fedora and Gluster
In a previous post I wrote about the encrypted storage I am using at home. Using Banana Pi, and Fedora. But, for my photos I had to look for something else. I need redundancy. The of the self NAS boxes...
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Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Fabio Zadrozny
This week we welcome Fabio Zadrozny (@fabiofz) as our PyDev of the Week. He is the current force behind the PyDev project, a Python IDE for Eclipse. Fabio works on many other projects, as you will see...
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Carl Chenet: Parse your rss feed and post to Twitter with feed2tweet
What’s more important today for a website than relaying your new blog posts to the social networks, especially Twitter ? Lots of unmaintained or unreliable third-parties web services offer this...
View ArticleAnarcat: Bridging Ikiwiki and Twitter with Python and feed2tweet
Typical:find new interesting software (feed2tweet)try it out, file two issues: no startup filefails to install through pipitch enough that i need to scratch it and file 3 pull requests to ask for...
View ArticleS. Lott: SQL Hegemony -- a sad state of affairs
It appears that there are people who don't recognize SQL as a tradeoff.Here's a complex two-part question that can only come from folks who firmly believe in the magic of SQL.The sentence that got my...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #40 Top 10 Data Science Stories from 2015
It's the end of the year and many of you are probably kicking and taking it easy without a TPS report to be seen. So we'll keep this fun and lighthearted this week. We've teamed up with the Partially...
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François Dion: Reproducible research from a book
PreambleSometimes, you don't have direct access to the data, or the data changes over time. Yeah, I know, scary. So that's my point in this post. Provide a URL to a "frozen" version of your data, if...
View ArticleGraham Dumpleton: Issues with running as PID 1 in a Docker container.
We are getting close to the end of this initial series of posts on getting IPython to work with Docker and OpenShift. In the last post we finally got everything working in plain Docker when a random...
View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 398] Michael Droettboom: matplotlib
If you’re doing data science, then the odds are good that you’re using Python. And if you’re using Python to do data science, then you’re probably using matplotlib to create visualizations — charts,...
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PyCon: Become a PyCon 2016 volunteer!
A community conference like PyCon is run by volunteers. There are many ways to get involved if you are interested in serving the community as part of the team who makes the conference possible. Here is...
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