Stein Magnus Jodal: December contributions
The following is a short summary of my open source work in December, following up on my first report in November.DebianUploaded mopidy-dirble 1.2.0-1: New upstream release.Created the pkg-mopidy Alioth...
View ArticleBhishan Bhandari: Compiling my year with an Interpreter
To my dear readers, without whom this blog would have been a dead planet. Thanks for spending your valuable time here. I wish you a Happy New Year. 2015 is gone with almost an end to my sophomore year....
View ArticleTryton News: Videos of the Tryton Unconference 2015
The videos recorded during the last Tryton Unconference 2015 are available. The slides can also be downloaded.
View ArticlePyCon: Talk and Poster proposals are due Sunday — and, PyCon 2016 falls on...
Here are two crucial reminders as we head into the final weekend of our Call For Proposals: Talk and Poster proposals are due this Sunday, January 3rd!The first of PyCon’s three main conference days...
View ArticleDjango Weblog: Bugfix releases issued: 1.9.1 and 1.8.8
Today we've issued bugfix releases for the 1.9 and 1.8 release series. Details can be found in the release notes for 1.9.1 and 1.8.8.The release package and checksums are available from our downloads...
View ArticleBhishan Bhandari: Automation with Python – Python codes to create Dropbox apps
As promised in the article earlier on Automate DropBox Signups using python, I have come up with an article along with the codes to create an app and fetch the API keys for it which then allows us to...
View ArticleDoug Hellmann: virtualenvwrapper needs a new maintainer
virtualenvwrapper is probably the most popular tool I maintain. A surprising number of people use the current version of the shell scripts that grew out of a hacky little set of bash aliases I wrote 7+...
View ArticlePodcast.__init__: Episode 38 - Scott Sanderson on Algorithmic Trading
Visit our site to listen to past episodes, support the show, and sign up for our mailing list.SummaryBecause of its easy learning curve and broad extensibility Python has found its way into the realm...
View ArticleCarl Chenet: To be alerted if no more tweet is sent from your Twitter...
This version 0.1 of Twitterwatch is dedicated to Ian Murdock, Debian project Founder. If you use an automated system like Feed2tweet in order to feed your Twitter account from your website of any RSS...
View ArticleConcrete Clouds: Quality, Customers and Licenses
At my day job as a software engineer most of our projects are done in contracts for work. After a few years I realised, that doing core components in contracts for work is bad for quality, because...
View ArticleBhishan Bhandari: Finding Facebook Fanpage of Startups – selenium and facepy...
As a regular activity of the Software Club at my college, we have a weekly meetups where we discuss various ideas and code anything that is possible within an hour or so. We make groups of 3 or 4 and...
View ArticleCodementor: The Script that Saved My Sanity
When someone gets a new MacBook, stuff like dropping the WiFi signal can kill the vibe. It actually killed me for over 6 or 7 months when my new internet was connected in. The providers changed my...
View ArticleCaktus Consulting Group: Modified Preorder Tree Traversal in Django
Hierarchical data are everywhere, from product catalogs to blog post comments. A classic example is the tree of life, where kingdoms are subdivided into a hierarchy of phylum and class down to genus...
View ArticlePyPy Development: Leysin Winter Sprint (20-27th February 2016)
The next PyPy sprint will be in Leysin, Switzerland, for the eleventh time. This is a fully public sprint: newcomers and topics other than those proposed below are welcome.Goals and topics of the...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Jeff Triplett
This week we welcome Jeff Triplett @webology as our PyDev of the Week. He is the co-founder of the Django Events Foundation North America (DEFNA) and the current chair of DjangoCon US 2016. Let’s spend...
View ArticleDoug Hellmann: Python Module of the Week for Python 3
Over the last several years since my book, The Python Standard Library by Example, was published many folks I’ve talked with at conferences or by email have asked when I would be updating the content...
View ArticleDoug Hellmann: queue — Thread-safe FIFO Implementation — PyMOTW 3
The queue module provides a first-in, first-out (FIFO) data structure suitable for multi-threaded programming. It can be used to pass messages or other data between producer and consumer threads...
View ArticleGraham Dumpleton: Roundup of Docker issues when hosting IPython.
Over the last two weeks I have posted a total of six blog posts in a series about what I encountered when attempting to run IPython on Docker. Getting it to run wasn’t straight forward because I wanted...
View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 404] Andrew Campbell: Bootstrapping...
IPython notebook (aka Jupyter) is a well known, Python-based system for working with and collaborating on data science. But sometimes you don’t want to have people work on a data-science project, so...
View ArticleVladimir Iakolev: Import python modules straight from github
In Go we have ability to import modules from github, like:import"github.com/parnurzeal/gorequest"It's a bit controversial feature, but sometimes it's useful. And I was interested, is it possible to...
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