PyCon: Registration and Financial Aid are now open!
PyCon’s Registration and Financial Aid forms are now open! Their soft launch a few days ago revealed a form formatting problem on some Firefox versions, but the issue is now resolved and registration...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Ian Cordasco
This week we welcome Ian Cordasco as our PyDev of the Week. He is a very active contributor to many Python-related projects, such as Requests, Flake8, PyFlakes and much more. Let’s spend some time...
View ArticleMachinalis: Full Text Search in Django using Database Back-Ends
Although having a specialized indexing solution is what most experts recommend when dealing with large, real word sites, sometimes it can be overkill if we’re only working on a simple system with few...
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PyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Joel Taddei (@taddeimania) and Sophicware...
Speaker Profile: Joel Taddei (@taddeimania)Joel is a Backend & Frontend web developer turned Data Science instructor. He will be presenting Operators: Overloaded at 11AM Saturday. Python’s native...
View ArticlePython Sweetness: Permanently archiving Windows Phone 8.1 SMS & MMS to Gmail
As someone who places very little value on mobile apps, I’m for the most part a very happy Windows Phone user. The phone rings, I answer it. Occasionally I’ll send a text message. These functions work...
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Vasudev Ram: Simple drawing program with Python turtle graphics
By Vasudev RamImage attribution: Claudio Giovenzana www.longwalk.itSome time back I had written a post with a simple turtle graphics program in Python:(The history of turtle graphics is of interest,...
View ArticleBrian Okken: Harry Percival : Testing Web Apps with Python, Selenium, Django...
Interview with Harry Percival If you develop and/or test web applications, especially django, you will probably enjoy this episode. Show Notes Rough outline of what we talk about: Part 1 (first 20...
View ArticleImport Python: Python Job Board Update
It's been approx six months since the launch of the free Import Python Job Board. We have received three emails from job posters thanking us for helping them find developers. We couldn't be more happy....
View ArticleMarko Samastur: image-diet2 and pyimagediet
Couple of years ago I hacked together a small Django app called image-diet which automatically compresses images processed by Easy Thumbnails as they are uploaded to a website. Its code was atrocious...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #42 Python in Startups and Investing
Have you ever dreamt of creating a startup that will change the world? You and your two best friends leave the dull world of writing internal business apps and go heads-down for three months to launch...
View ArticlePyCon: Now accepting Financial Aid applications
If you compare the ticket prices that we charged at PyCon 2011 in Atlanta a half-decade ago to our prices today, you will notice something remarkable — that not only have we kept our Individual and...
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PyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Philip James (@phildini) and iCitizen (@icitizen)
Speaker Profile: Philip James (@phildini)Philip James is a Web Engineer at Eventbrite, a sometime game maker, avid geek, and terrible writer. He lives in Alameda, CA, where he co-authors the Captain...
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Doug Hellmann: contextlib — Context Manager Utilities — PyMOTW 3
The contextlib module contains utilities for working with context managers and the with statement. Read more… This post is part of the Python Module of the Week series for Python 3. See PyMOTW.com for...
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PyCharm: Introducing Getting Started with PyCharm video tutorials
Many of our users have been asking us to create a set of video tutorials covering PyCharm functionality and features. Today we’re happy to announce the very first Getting Started with PyCharm series of...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 3 – An Intro to Type Hinting
Python 3.5 added an interesting new library called typing. This adds type hinting to Python. Type hinting is kind of declaring your functions arguments to have a certain type. However the type hinting...
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Andre Roberge: Scratching an itch with a Chrome extension
Over the years, I have tried various "tasks organizers" and always come back eventually to using a simple text file (lately, using markdown instead of plain text). When writing markdown documents...
View ArticleWesley Chun: Creating events in Google Calendar from Python
NOTE: The code covered in this blogpost is also available in a video walkthrough here. UPDATE (Jan 2016): Tweaked the code to support oauth2client.tools.run_flow() which deprecates...
View ArticleWesley Chun: Migrating from tools.run() to tools.run_flow()
This mini-tutorial slash migration guide slash PSA (public service announcement) is aimed at Python developers using the Google APIs Client Library (to access Google APIs from their Python...
View ArticleAmit Saha: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() in Python
In Python, when you need to create a temporary file with a filename associated to it on disk, NamedTemporaryFile function in the tempfile module is the goto function. Here are some use cases that I...
View ArticleJeff Hinrichs: The case of the curious comment
Comments as defined by Python in 2.7.x and 3.4.xA comment starts with a hash character (#) that is not part of a string literal, and ends at the end of the physical line. A comment signifies the end of...
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