Nikola: Nikola v7.7.5 is out!
On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.7.5. It fixes some bugs and adds new features.What is Nikola?Nikola is a static site and blog generator,...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python Partials
Python comes with a fun module called functools. One of its classes is the partial class. You can use it create a new function with partial application of the arguments and keywords that you pass to...
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Import Python: ImportPython Issue 61
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,...
View ArticleBrett Cannon: How the heck does async/await work in Python 3.5?
Being a core developer of Python has made me want to understand how the language generally works. I realize there will always be obscure corners where I don't know every intricate detail, but to be...
View ArticleNed Batchelder: The value of unit tests
Seems like testing and podcasts are in the air... First, I was interviewed on Brian Okken's Python Test podcast. I wasn't sure what to expect. The conversation went in a few different directions, and...
View ArticleGiampaolo Rodola: How to always execute exit functions in Python
...or why atexit.register() and signal.signal() are evilMany people erroneously think that any function registered via atexit module is guaranteed to always be executed when the program terminates. You...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (vi) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2016-02-12 18:59:12 GMTCan you create a Python list from a string, while...
View ArticleInvesting using Python: 15 years of forex tick data to MongoDB using Python....
Here's another idea of mine. I've decided to download, process and make available through my brand new MongoDB 15 years of forex tick data from GAIN (Also possible from TrueFX/ Pepperstone). The...
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Omaha Python Users Group: February 17 Meeting Details
Topic/Speaker – Web Scraping by Keith NickumLocation – The recently opened Do Space at 7205 Dodge Street, Omaha. SW corner of 72nd and Dodge.Meeting starts at 6:30 pm, Wednesday, February 17.
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Yasoob Khalid: Free Weekly Python Workshop
Hi there everyone!I have an interesting opportunity for you guys. I am planning on doing a weekly online Python workshop. It will be for 2 hours every week. This is only for women (for now) who want to...
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Vasudev Ram: Examples of method chaining in Python
By Vasudev RamThe topic of method chaining came up during a training program I was conducting. So I thought of writing a post about it, with a couple of examples.Method chaining is a technique (in...
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Podcast.__init__: Episode 44 - Airflow with Maxime Beauchemin
Visit our site to listen to past episodes, support the show, join our community, and sign up for our mailing list.SummaryAre you struggling with trying to manage a series of related, interdependent...
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Ned Batchelder: Stellated icosahedron shirt
My new favorite t-shirt:It's a stellated icosahedron from Henry Segerman, who makes many interesting nerdy things, inspired by both math and juggling:Henry's mathematical art at Shapeways, of which...
View ArticleDoing Math with Python: What readers are saying
Readers have shared how they are finding Doing Math with Python by posting reviews on Amazon and their own blog. You can view all of them on the Reviews page.Some readers have also been kind enough to...
View ArticleAbu Ashraf Masnun: Django: Limiting User Access to Views
In this post, we would like to see how we can limit user accesses to our Django views. Login Required & Permission Required Decorators If you have worked with Django, you probably have used the...
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Evennia: Climbing up Branches
Today I pushed the latest Evennia development branch "wclient". This has a bunch of updates to how Evennia's webclient infrastructure works, by making all exchanged data be treated equal (instead of...
View ArticleLintel Technologies: How to write port-forwarding program using Twisted
Recently I was faced with an issue where a long running process is listening on loop back IP (127.0.0.1) on port 8080 on one of our servers and client programs on other machines are trying to access it...
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EuroPython: EuroPython 2016: Sending out the first gravitational waves
We are pleased to announce the launch of our all new EuroPython 2016 website. Over the last few weeks, we have been busy talking to sponsors and getting the website prepared for the launch.You may have...
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EuroPython Society: EuroPython 2016: Sending out the first gravitational waves
We are pleased to announce the launch of our all new EuroPython 2016 website. Over the last few weeks, we have been busy talking to sponsors and getting the website prepared for the launch.You may have...
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Julien Danjou: Timeseries storage and data compression
The first major version of the scalable timeserie database I work on, Gnocchi was a released a few months ago. In this first iteration, it took a rather naive approach to data storage. We had little...
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