Podcast.__init__: Episode 42 - SymPy With Aaron Meurer
Visit our site to listen to past episodes, support the show, join our community, and sign up for our mailing list.SummaryLooking for an open source alternative to Mathematica or MatLab for solving...
View ArticleInvesting using Python: Garman-Klass volatility estimator and HAR-RV model...
HAR-RV ("Heterogeneous AutoRegressive model fro Realized Volatility") is pretty simple model based on the so called “Heterogeneous Market Hypothesis” which states that financial markets move as an...
View ArticleKushal Das: Second Fedora Pune meetup in January
On 22nd of January evening we had the second Fedora meetup in Pune. There were 12 participants in this meet. We started a discussion about what happens when someone compiles a program written in C....
View ArticleAnarcat: My free software activities, January 2016
Debian Long Term Support (LTS)This is my second month working on Debian LTS, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. I think this month has been a little better for me, as I was able to push two "DLA"...
View ArticleA. Jesse Jiryu Davis: How To Hobble Your Python Web-Scraper With getaddrinfo()
This is the second article in what seems destined to be a four-part series about Python's getaddrinfo on Mac. Here, I discover that contention for the getaddrinfo lock makes connecting to localhost...
View ArticleStein Magnus Jodal: January contributions
The following is a short summary of my open source work in January, just like I did back in November and December.DebianUploaded mopidy 1.1.2-1: New upstream release. Moved to pkg-mopidy team.Uploaded...
View ArticleMontreal Python User Group: Montréal-Python: Call to Action
Ladies and Gentlemen, we at Montreal Python are super excited for 2016 and we have come up with some great ideas. In order to turn these ideas into reality, we will need some help. Montreal Python is...
View ArticlePéter Zsoldos: warnings.warn - some DeprecationWarning gotchas
DeprecationWarningsIt's a good practice to gradually deprecate one's library's API, so that users get advance warning of coming changes. The built in way to do so is Python's warnings moduleimport...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Oliver Schoenborn
This week we welcome Oliver Schoenborn as our PyDev of the Week. He is the author of the PyPubSub project, a version of which is included with wxPython. He has been an active contributor on the...
View ArticleDoug Hellmann: collections — Container Data Types — PyMOTW 3
The collections module includes container data types beyond the built-in types list, dict, and tuple . Read more… This post is part of the Python Module of the Week series for Python 3. See PyMOTW.com...
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Lorena Mesa (@loooorenanicole) and Tennessee Data...
Speaker Profile: Lorena Mesa (@loooorenanicole)Political analyst turned coder, Lorena Mesa works as a platform software engineer at Sprout Social and is a co-organizer for PyLadies Chicago. Lorena...
View ArticlePeter Bengtsson: Bestest and securest way to handle Python dependencies
pip 8 is out and with it, the ability to only install dependencies you've vetted. Thank Erik Rose! Now you can be absolutely certain that dependencies you downloaded and installed locally is absolutely...
View ArticleDjango Weblog: Django releases issued: 1.9.2 (security) and 1.8.9 (bugfix)
In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing Django 1.9.2. This release addresses a security issue detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as...
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Edward Finkler (@funkatron)
Speaker Profile: Edward Finkler (@funkatron)Ed Finkler, also known as Funkatron, started making web sites before browsers had frames. He does front-end and server-side work in Python, PHP, and...
View ArticleContinuum Analytics News: Anaconda for R users: SparkR and rBokeh
Developer BlogPostedMonday, February 1, 2016Christine DoigIn this post, we present two projects for the R programming language that are powered by Anaconda. We will explore how rBokeh allows you to...
View ArticleTwisted Matrix Labs: January 2016 - SFC Sponsored Development
This is my report for the work done in January 2016 as part of the Twisted Maintainer Fellowship program.It is my last report of the Twisted Maintainer Fellowship 2015 program.With this fellowship the...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #44 Project Jupyter and IPython
One of the fastest growing areas in Python is scientific computing. In scientific computing with Python, there are a few key packages that make it special. These include NumPy / SciPy / and related...
View ArticleS. Lott: Why I don't want to share your screen -- OR -- What I learned from...
I know it sounds arrogant, but I don't want to share your screen to sort out a Python programming problem. I have two reasons and I think one of them is a good one.It's both pedagogical and personal....
View ArticleKay Hayen: Nuitka Release 0.5.19
This is to inform you about the new stable release of Nuitka. It is the extremely compatible Python compiler. Please see the page "What is Nuitka?" for an overview.This release brings optimization...
View ArticleKristján Valur Jónsson: What is Stackless?
I sometimes get this question. And instead of starting a rant about microthreads, co-routines, tasklets and channels, I present the essential piece of code from the implementation: The Code: /* the...
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