Montreal Python User Group: Montréal-Python 56: Call for speakers
2016 is just starting and we've just finished celebrating the new year but it's time to prepare yourself for our next event, Montréal-Python 56. It's your opportunity to come present, we are looking...
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PyCharm: [Live Webinar] Polyglot PyCharm for Rich Web Front-ends, January 12
Join us Tuesday, January 12, 15:00 – 16:00 GMT (10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST) for our free live webinar, Polyglot PyCharm for Rich Web Front-ends featuring Paul Everitt.Polyglot PyCharm for Rich Web...
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Paul Everitt: I’m doing a webinar next week: “Polyglot PyCharm...
Next Tuesday at 10AM Eastern I’m doing a free/live JetBrains webinar. Nutshell: using the WebStorm-like web features, in PyCharm.This webinar originated from several of my Python friends asking if they...
View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 405] Josh Berkus: Postgres + SciPy for...
So, you’ve got a lot of data. You might even say “big data.” You want to analyze it, and so you turn to Python and the SciPy stack. But you might also want to benefit from a relational database,...
View ArticleGlyph Lefkowitz: Taking Issue With Paul Graham’s Premises
Paul Graham has recently penned an essay on income inequality. Holly Wood wrote a pretty good critique of this piece, but it is addressing a huge amount of pre-existing context, as well as ignoring...
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Anarcat: My free software activities in December 2015
I am hereby joining the crowd of Debian and free software developers doing a monthly and public summary of their work.Debian Long Term Support (LTS)This is the first month when I have been paid to work...
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Toshio Kuratomi: Python2, string .format(), and unicode
PrimerIf you’ve dealt with unicode and byte str mixing in python2 before, you’ll know that there are certain percent-formatting operations that you absolutely should not do with them. For instance, if...
View ArticleABlog for Sphinx: ABlog v0.8.2 released
ABlog v0.8.2 is released to fix date parsing (issue 58) and Python 2.6 installation (issue 59) issues.
View ArticleBhishan Bhandari: Bits of selenium, time, tkinter, pyvirtualdisplay – Get...
Making use of libraries available and building something useful has always been my favorite. However, I haven’t yet been involved in making/contributing to one. I don’t even know the procedure to be...
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Robin Wilson: Previously Unpublicised Code: PyMicrotops
Continuing my series of code that I’ve written in the past, and stuck up on Github, but never actually talked about…this post is about PyMicrotops: a Python library for processing data from the...
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PyPy Development: Using CFFI for embedding
IntroductionCFFI has been a great success so far to call C libraries in your Python programs, in a way that is both simple and that works across CPython 2.x and 3.x and PyPy.This post assumes that you...
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Kushal Das: Fedora 23 on Tegra K1 Chromebook
Last year during Flock I got myself an Acer CB5 311 Chromebook with Nvidia Tegra K1 ARM board, and 2 GB ram. It is a very nice machine to run ChromeOS, but my goal behind getting the hardware was all...
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Yasoob Khalid: Python for Scientists
This is a guest post by Brian David Hall from codenhance.com. He develops tutorials and resources to help scientists learn to code, including his latest Kickstarter project, Learn the Command Line …...
View ArticleBrett Cannon: My New Years programming resolutions
It's a new calendar year, which means it's time to think about what year-long plans I have for my contributions to the Python project. There's always the usual plans I have to approve some patches, fix...
View ArticleJeff Hinrichs: Type Annotations: The Kudzu of Python?
I personally don’t like Python’s type annotations, the completely mask out what was a human friendly function signature. For something that was being proposed and skunk-worked in to stub files,...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python One of Eight Languages to Have on Resume in 2016
I recently came across a post by BusinessInsider that claimed that Python was one of the top eight languages to have on your resume in 2016. Python comes in at 6th place. However, the article cites an...
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Vasudev Ram: Generate PDF from a Python-controlled Unix pipeline
By Vasudev RamThis post is about a new xtopdf app I wrote, called PopenToPDF.py.(xtopdf is my PDF generation toolkit, written in Python. The toolkit consists of a core library and multiple applications...
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Odoo Community Association: 2016 Wishes, Planet Python, Reddit, Packaging and...
2016 Wishes, Planet Python, Reddit, Packaging and RunbotsJanuary issue of the OCA Newsletter2015 OCA Platinum SponsorHappy New Year 2016!The OCA Board wishes all sponsors, members, contributors and...
View ArticleHynek Schlawack: Storing Passwords in a Highly Parallelized World
Why “Use bcrypt.” is not the best recommendation (anymore).
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...
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