Import Python: ImportPython Issue 57
ImportPython Newsletter Issue 57. Worthy Read Development and Deployment of Cookiecutter-Django via Docker - Real Pythondjango Let’s look at how to bootstrap a Django Project pre-loaded with the basic...
View ArticleHolger Peters: Identical Objects Do Not Imply Equality In Python
Python has two very similar comparison operators: == for equality and is for object identity. Typically, is faster, as the implementation just needs to compare object ids, whereas == must call the...
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Mahmoud Hashemi: RWC 2016 Lightning Talk
Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the Real World Crypto 2016 conference in Stanford, CA. This is a pseudotranscript of that lightning talk.I'm Mahmoud Hashemi and I work as...
View ArticleVasudev Ram: Code for recent post about PDF from a Python pipeline
By Vasudev RamIn this recent post:Generate PDF from a Python-controlled Unix pipeline ,I forgot to include the code for the program PopenToPDF.py. Here it is now:# PopenToPDF.py# Demo program to read...
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTennessee 2016?
This year, we’ve hit what can only be called a series of unfortunate events: The Main Organizer got extremely ill and our fundraising efforts have not been very fruitful. So I thought it was time to...
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Podcast.__init__: Episode 39 - Yves Hilpisch on Quantitative Finance
Visit our site to listen to past episodes, join our community Discourse, support the show, and sign up for our mailing list.SummaryYves Hilpisch is a founder of The Python Quants, a consultancy that...
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Carl Chenet: My Free Activities in December 2015
I was quite busy in December 2015, especially with my new Python projects related to automatize Twitter actions. Have a look at my Github home for more information ! 1. Personal projects db2twitter 0.5...
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Omaha Python Users Group: January 20 Meeting Details
Topic/Speaker – A Novice’s Experience Teaching Python to Kid’s and Scientists/Burch KealeyLocation – The recently opened Do Space at 7205 Dodge Street, Omaha. SW corner of 72nd and Dodge.Meeting...
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Twisted Matrix Labs: December 2015 second half - SFC Sponsored Development
This is my report for the work done in the second half of December as part of the 2015 Twisted Maintainer Fellowship program.Important changes made in these weeks* The Git migration plan was...
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PythonClub - A Brazilian collaborative blog about Python: Como encontrar...
Como encontrar soluções para seus problemas com PythonQuando estamos aprendendo algo, o início geralmente é difícil. Conseguir absorver novos conceitos e entender como as coisas funcionam não é uma das...
View ArticleIan Ozsvald: Announcing PyDataLondon 2016 (May 6-8th)
We’re very happy to announce that Bloomberg will host us a second time for PyDataLondon 2016 (our 3rd annual conference). We’ll run the conference over May 6-8th (a tutorial day and 2 conference days...
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Carl Chenet: Feed2tweet 0.2: power of the command line sending your Feed RSS...
Feed2tweet is a self-hosted Python app to send you RSS feed to Twitter. A long descriptions about why and how to use it is available in my last post about it. Feed2tweet on Github (stars appreciated :)...
View ArticleNed Batchelder: Coverage.py 4.1b1
I wasn't planning on any big features for Coverage.py 4.1, but I ended up making a big change. tl;dr: branch coverage is implemented differently, and as a result, your coverage totals are slightly...
View ArticleWill Kahn-Greene: Me: 2015 retrospective
My 2015 retrospective. Kind of like 2014, but less terrible and more snow.Read more… (8 mins to read)
View ArticleGreg Taylor: paypal-python 1.2.5 released
paypal-python 1.2.5 has been released with a small Python 3 compatibility fix (thanks to brutasse). Note: For the sake of clarification, paypal-python is for the older Python NVP API. You probably...
View ArticleAmit Saha: Mock objects and non-existent attributes/methods in Python
Updated: Fixed typo in the last paragraph.Today, I was curious to see this behavior of Mock() objects when using mock:>>> from mock import Mock >>> m = Mock() >>>...
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Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Fernando Doglio
This week we welcome Fernando Doglio as our PyDev of the Week. While Fernando hasn’t been using Python for long, he did author the book, Mastering Python High Performance for Packt Publishing. If you’d...
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Doug Hellmann: argparse — Command-Line Option and Argument Parsing — PyMOTW 3
The argparse module includes tools for building command line argument and option processors. It was added to Python 2.7 as a replacement for optparse . The implementation of argparse supports features...
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Paul Everitt: Javascript development, in a Python IDE?
I hear this a lot: “I use PyCharm for Python, do I need to get WebStorm to do web front-ends?” It makes sense that people would say this: PyCharm is for Python, WebStorm is for HTML/CSS/JS.Thing is,...
View ArticleDataquest: Getting started with data science in Python
Python is becoming an increasingly popular language for data science, and with good reason. It’s easy to learn, has powerful data science libraries, and integrates well with databases and tools like...
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