David MacIver: Superposition values for testing
Cory was talking about using AFL to fuzz test hyper-h2 the other day.We talked about the difficulty of building a good starter corpus, and I thought I’d pull out some old code I had for using glassbox...
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Continuum Analytics News: Anaconda 2.5 Release - now with MKL Optimizations
Developer BlogPostedFriday, February 5, 2016Dr. Ilan SchnellWe are happy to announce that Anaconda 2.5 has been released, which includes the IntelMath Kernel Library (MKL) optimizations (version...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python – The datefinder package
Earlier this week, I came across another fun package called datefinder. The idea behind this package is that it can take any string with dates in it and transform them into a list of Python datetime...
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Will McGugan: Edinburgh, I am in you
From one capital to another; I have moved from London to Edinburgh!I'm looking forward to connecting with Edinburgh Pythonistas, techies and/or photographers. Get in touch if you would like to meet up...
View ArticleFrank Wierzbicki: Jython 2.7.1 beta3 released!
On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that the third beta of Jython 2.7.1 is available! This is a bugfix release. Bug fixes include improvements in zlib and pip...
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Twisted Matrix Labs: Jan '16 SFC Sponsored Development (HawkOwl)
Hi everyone!The Twisted Fellowship, for this time, has come to an end, and as such, here is my final report.Tickets reviewed/merged:#8140 (merged): DummyRequest is out of sync with the real...
View ArticleGeert Vanderkelen: MySQL Connector/Python currently not available from PyPI
With PEP 470 now requiring files to be hosted on PyPI, you may have noticed that MySQL Connector/Python is now no longer available using the pip-tool.The MySQL Engineering team at Oracle really would...
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Import Python: ImportPython Issue 60
Word From Our SponsorPython Programmers let companies apply to you, not the other way around. Receive interview offers which include salary and equity information. Companies see each other's offers,...
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Robin Wilson: Hacking the Worcester Wave thermostat in Python – Part 1
When we bought a new boiler last year, we decided to install a ‘smart thermostat’. There are a wide range available these days, including the Google Nest, the Hive (from British Gas), and the Worcester...
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Greg Back
Greg is mysterious, and leaves no personal bio.Greg will be presenting “Best Practices for Python Scripting” Sunday at 3PM. The Python REPL is an amazing tool for exploring a problem and quickly...
View ArticleCubicWeb: Status of the CubicWeb python3 porting effort, February 2016
An effort to port CubicWeb to a dual python 2.6/2.7 and 3.3+ code base was started by Rémi Cardona in summer of 2014. The first task was to port all of CubicWeb's dependencies:logilab-common...
View ArticleKároly Nagy: Priority queue in Redis aka ZPOP
Redis list is great to use it as a processing queue. So great that it sort of became the standard and many people using that instead of dedicated queues such as ZeroMQ or RabbitMQ because it also gives...
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Galvanize: Super Bowl MVP: Cam Newton, Peyton Manning, or 4th Down Bot?
The Denver Broncos are set to square off against the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50 this weekend, but had it not been for a few key plays, it could have been Tom Brady and the New England Patriots...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (v) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last weekBetween brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2016-02-05 17:11:39 GMTHow do I avoid the "self.x = x; self.y = y; self.z...
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بايثون العربي: إنشاء عروض جانغو
العروض في جانغو عبارة عن الأشياء التي نريد من الزائر أن يذهب إليها وعادة ماتكون عبارة عن صفحات html أو تحويل الروابط جيث ستقوم بطلب المعلومات من النماذج وتقوم بتمريره إلى template (سنقوم بالتعامل معها...
View ArticleDavid MacIver: Hypothesis progress is alarming
I had a brilliant idea just now:08:54 <DRMacIver> shapr: So I’ve been thinking about your point that you have to save pre-shrinking state because you might have found multiple bugs, and I think...
View ArticleFilipe Saraiva: Cantor migrating to Phabricator: which tools our contributors...
Projects and software developed by KDE community are going to migrate for a new tool to manage our code, commits, reviews, tasks, and more. This tool is Phabricator and you can visit the instance for...
View ArticleKároly Nagy: Priority queue in Redis aka ZPOP
Redis list is great to use it as a processing queue. So great that it sort of became the standard and many people using that instead of dedicated queues such as ZeroMQ or RabbitMQ because it also gives...
View ArticleBhishan Bhandari: How To Split And Merge PDF Documents
Not the type of posts I usually produce. A promotional review of a tool. Geeks might want to skip therefore. Everyone knows that PDF files are hard to work with. Apart from figuring out how to convert...
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BangPypers: Feb 2015 bangpypers talk report
The February BangPypers talks happened at the Grofers, attended by 70 participants. This is the first time Grofers hosted us. First talk was Deploying a simple Django application with nginx and uwsgi...
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