Ian Ozsvald: PyDataLondon 2016 Call for Proposals Open
Our Call for Proposals for PyDataLondon 2016 (May 6-8) is open until approx. end of February (5ish weeks), you need to get your submission in soon!If you want to sponsor to talk with 330 cutting edge...
View ArticleMahmoud Hashemi: Getting a Python job
Every day, Python is the primary programming language for tens if not hundreds of thousands of professional engineers, analysts, and researchers, including yours truly. Given Python's "language of...
View ArticleA. Jesse Jiryu Davis: Video of My Coroutines Live-Coding Demonstration, at...
Here's video of the live-coding demo I did Sunday at SCALE14x: in under an hour I built a Python 3 async framework. I began by demonstrating non-blocking sockets, callbacks, and an event loop. This...
View ArticlePython Software Foundation: Welcome to the Warehouse!
Warehouse is the new codebase being developed to power the Python Packaging Index (PyPI). Python developers and users already know that PyPI is the official comprehensive repository of third-party...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #43 Monitoring high performance Python apps at Opbeat
What does it take to track detailed analytics and errors from literally thousands of web applications all at once? Could you build such a system entirely in Python? <br/> <br/> The answer...
View ArticleDamyan Bogoev: Flask Series: Deployment
I will describe a setup with nginx as a web server. A web server cannot communicate directly with Flask, that’s why gunicorn will be used to act as a medium between the web server and the Flask...
View ArticleLudovic Gasc: Python-FOSDEM devroom+dinner 2016
If you come at Brussels for the FOSDEM, join us this Saturday.Schedule: https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/python/FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and...
View ArticleChris Moffitt: Learn More About Pandas By Building and Using a Weighted...
IntroductionPandas includes multiple built in functions such as sum , mean , max , min , etc. that you can apply to a DataFrame or grouped data. However, building and using your own function is a good...
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Dana Scheider (@danascheider) and axialHealthcare...
Speaker Profile: Dana Scheider (@danascheider)Dana Scheider is a developer who is passionate about behavior-driven development and about teaching others how to use BDD to enhance their experience as...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 101: How to traverse a directory
Every so often you will find yourself needing to write code that traverse a directory. They tend to be one-off scripts or clean up scripts that run in cron in my experience. Anyway, Python provides a...
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Heather Shapiro (@microheather) and O’Reilly...
Speaker Profile: Heather Shapiro (@microheather)Heather Shapiro is a Technical Evangelist in Microsoft’s Developer Experience group, where she educates developers on Microsoft’s new technologies. In...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #43 Monitoring high performance Python apps at Opbeat
What does it take to track detailed analytics and errors from literally thousands of web applications all at once? Could you build such a system entirely in Python? <br/> <br/> The answer...
View ArticlePeter Bengtsson: hashin - a replacement for peepin
tl;dr Stop using peepin. Start using hashinToday I proudly release hashin (on PyPI). It's a replacement of peepin (on PyPI). Yes, I know that's confusing. A couple of days ago my friend Erik Rose...
View ArticleJeff Hinrichs: dhp.test – tempfile_containing
In a recent post Amit talked about temporary files and gave a number of scenarios where they can be quite handy. In testing, I occasionally need temporary files and prefer to use mkstemp however, the...
View ArticleVinay Sajip (Logging): Using a context manager for selective logging
There are times when it would be useful to temporarily change the logging configuration and revert it back after doing something. For this, a context manager is the most obvious way of saving and...
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Doug Turnbull (@softwaredoug) and Mosaik...
Speaker Profile: Doug Turnbull (@softwaredoug)Doug wants search to be central to more user experiences. As an author and speaker, Doug teaches other developers to program search to understand users....
View ArticleProgramando Ciência: Defining matrices and their transposes on GNU Octave
Hey scientist! How is it going? Ready to learn how to use matrices on GNU Octave? In this post we will define vectors and matrices, and also their transposes. Let’s do it! First of all, open your...
View ArticlePyTennessee: Keynoter Change: Adrienne Lowe (@adriennefriend)
Rivkah Standig had something come up, and the whole PyTN family is sending positive vibes in her direction. We hope to have her rejoin us next year. While it is impossible to replace Rivkah, Adrienne...
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Brian Costlow (@bcostlow) and Pragmatic...
Speaker Profile: Brian Costlow (@bcostlow)Brian has been everything from chief cook to bottle washer at every kind of place from two-guys-in-a-garage to F50 companies. He’s programmed in a dozen or so...
View ArticleYasoob Khalid: Implementing Email Sending Functionality in a Django App
Hi there folks! Recently I was doing a task for fossasia which required me to make a Django web app which allowed users to submit their email addresses and receive a welcome email in return. I was able...
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