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Carl Chenet: Extend your Twitter network with Retweet
Retweet is self-hosted app coded in Python 3 allowing to retweet all the statuses from a given Twitter account to another one. Lots of filters can be used to retweet only tweets matching given...
View ArticleIan Ozsvald: Allergic Rhinitis (“Why do I always sneeze?!”)...
Since April my wife (@fluffyemily) and I have been running a research project around her allergies. She sneezes all year and we’re trying to figure out the cause. Allergic Rhinitis affects 10-30% of...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #41 Getting your first dev job as a Python developer (part 2)
How often do you meet people who are looking to get into the software development space? Do they ask you for advice? Maybe they want to know your story of how you got started and landed that first big...
View ArticleS. Lott: "Learn Python" is growing
https://dzone.com/articles/learn-python-overtakes-learn-javaI've seen companies making sincere enterprise-wide commitments to doing all data analysis in Python. There's no reason for quants and...
View ArticleeGenix.com: Python Meeting Düsseldorf - 2016-01-19
The following text is in German, since we're announcing a regional user group meeting in Düsseldorf, Germany.AnkündigungDas nächste Python Meeting Düsseldorf findet an folgendem Termin statt:Dienstag,...
View ArticleIan Ozsvald: Data Scientist Jobs in London
Back in January 2015 I announced my Data Science Jobs UK email list. This has grown nicely, several hundred data scientists have joined it and are interested in (mostly) Python related jobs around...
View ArticleStack Abuse: Python: Check if a File or Directory Exists
There are quite a few ways to solve a problem in programming, and this holds true especially in Python. Many times you'll find that multiple built-in or standard modules serve essentially the same...
View ArticleMontreal Python User Group: Montréal-Python 56: Yugoslav Zoophobia
We very proud the announce you the speakers of our 56th meeting that will be held at the Lightspeed Retail offices in Montreal. Join un next Monday, at 6:00pm for an amazing evening of Python :)Flash...
View ArticleHynek Schlawack: hasattr() Considered Harmful
Don’t use Python’s hasattr() unless you want its quirks or are writing Python 3-only code.
View ArticleWingware News: Wing IDE 5.1.9: January 13, 2016
Wing IDE 5.1.9 adds command line control over settings and cache directories, implements Mercurial resolve, fixes a few problems with multi-process debugging, corrects auto-spacing in PEP484 type...
View ArticleJeff Hinrichs: string modulo vs. Format – Fight!
A search for information on string interpolation in Python will inevitably lead you to comments and links to old documentation that the string modulo operator is going to be deprecated and removed....
View Article"Fredrik Håård's Blaag": BitSyncHub Open Sourced
BitSyncHub Open SourcedA while back, I opened (as in 'made available') BitSyncHub, a tool to automatically synchronize Bitbucket repositories to Github. At the time I saw no real reason to open source...
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Kristján Valur Jónsson: Exception leaks in Python 2 and 3
Recently I decided to port a little package that I had to Python 3, and ran into the traceback reference cycle problem. This blog is the result of the detective work I had to do, both to...
View ArticleHolger Peters: Exceptions - The Dark Side of the Force
A recent blog post "If you don't like exceptions, you don't like Python" has made rounds lately, and compelled me to write a partial rebuttal. It is not like that blog post is completely wrong, but it...
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Python Software Foundation: 2015 Community Service Awartd goes to Berker Peksağ
Last month I posted about the wonderful work of Terri Oda, who was recognized with a Community Service Award. Today’s post is about another 2015 Fourth Quarter CSA recipient, Berker Peksağ, who will...
View ArticleBrett Cannon: The history behind the decision to move Python to GitHub
I asked on Twitter if people would be interested in having me write down the history behind my decision to choose GitHub for Python's future development process and people said "yes"(some literally),...
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Fabio Zadrozny: PyDev 4.5.1: debug faster
PyDev 4.5.1 brings niceties such as an improvement on the code-completion so that properties declared with @property no longer show arguments parenthesis and Ctrl+1 can be used inside a bracketed...
View ArticlePython Anywhere: New stuff: UI changes, new packages, and limited Java
A big infrastructure update this morning, but we managed to fit in some nice new features too!A popular request, especially from people using PythonAnywhere in education: when you run a Python file...
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PyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Katie Cunningham Keynoter
Katie Cunningham is a writer, coder, and teacher. She’s a ferventadvocate for Python, Open Source Software, and teaching more peoplehow to program. She’s a frequent speaker at open source...
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PyCharm: [Webinar Recording] Polyglot PyCharm for Rich Web Front-ends
The recording of our January 12th webinar, Polyglot PyCharm for Rich Web Front-ends, is now available on JetBrains YouTube Channel. Paul Everitt’s code used in the recording along with the script for...
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