End Point: Python Imports
For a Python project I'm working on, I wrote a parent class with multiple child classes, each of which made use of various modules that were imported in the parent class. A quick solution to making...
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Mike Driscoll: Reportlab – How to Add Charts / Graphs
Reportlab is really nice tool for creating PDFs in Python. A little known fact is that they now support adding charts or graphs to your PDF. Previously if you wanted that functionality, you would have...
View ArticleEnd Point: Python decorator basics, part II
This is a continuation of my previous post: Python decorator basics. Here I'll talk about a decorator with optional arguments. Let's say we want to pass an optional argument to the same debug...
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Podcast.__init__: Episode 45 - Cython with Craig Citro and Robert Bradshaw
Visit our site to listen to past episodes, support the show, join our community, and sign up for our mailing list.SummaryDo you find yourself reaching for a different language when you need some extra...
View ArticleGalvanize: Seattle Data Science Workshop: Writing Elegant and Efficient Python
As Mark Twain (almost) said, the difference between elegant Python and clumsy Python is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. This talk will show you how to write beautiful and fast...
View ArticleeGenix.com: eGenix PyRun - One file Python Runtime 2.1.2 GA
IntroductioneGenix PyRun™ is our open source, one file, no installation version of Python, making the distribution of a Python interpreter to run based scripts and applications to Unix based systems as...
View ArticlePythonClub - A Brazilian collaborative blog about Python: Paralelismo em...
Esse post tem por objetivo abordar o uso da bliblioteca concurrent.futures para realizar operações paralelas em Python. Dito isto, gostaria de contextualizar de forma simples paralelismo e...
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PyCharm: PyCharm 5.1 EAP 144.4199.7: Python 2/3 compatible type hinting,...
A week ago we announced the first PyCharm 5.1 EAP build with lots of new neat features and improvements such as Tox support, Optional PyPI repositories, Debugger performance improvements and more....
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (vii) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2016-02-19 15:56:56 GMTHow to get the number of all the keys in a...
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PythonClub - A Brazilian collaborative blog about Python: Python Generators
Publicado originalmente em:http://andrealmar.com/2016/02/generatorsI'm the Generator, firing whenever you quit Yeah whatever it is, you go out and it's on Yeah can't you hear my motored heart You're...
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Jaime Buelta: Happy 25th Anniversary, Python
25 years ago, on 20th February 1991, Python 0.9.0 was released publicly… I absolutely love it and use it everyday, and it seems to be as successful as ever… For another great 25 years! Cheers!...
View ArticleEnd Point: Python decorator basics
Python decorators have been around since 2005, when they were included in the release of Python 2.4.1. A decorator is nothing more than syntax for passing a function to another function, or wrapping...
View ArticleEnd Point: CouchDB pagination with couchdb-python
I've been working with couchdb-python v0.8 to meet some of a project's CouchDB needs and ran into an unfortunate shortcoming. Retrieving database rows is as easy as: for row in...
View ArticleFloris Bruynooghe: py.test sprint in Freiburg
Testing is a really important part of Python development and picking the testing tool of choice is no light decision. Quite a few years ago I eventually decided py.test would be the best tool for this,...
View ArticleSemaphore Community: Testing Python-Requests with Betamax
This article is brought with ❤ to you by Semaphore.IntroductionRequests is one of the most downloaded and widely used Python libraries published on PyPI. Testing Requests, however, is something that...
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John Cook: The empty middle: why no one is average
In 1945, a Cleveland newspaper held a contest to find the woman whose measurements were closest to average. This average was based on a study of 15,000 women by Dr. Robert Dickinson and embodied in a...
View ArticleFilipe Saraiva: Call to Co-maintainers of Cantor
Cantor, the software to scientific programming in worksheet-style interface, had (and has!) several developers working in different parts of the code along the years. Thanks to the plugin-based...
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Alex Clark: Updated Django Website
One year laterLast year I wrote about developing our company website with Django:http://blog.aclark.net/2015/01/11/new-django-website/index.htmlThis year, I updated the site and am again very happy...
View ArticleMauveweb: Pyweek 21 is one week away, 28th February-6th March 2015
The next Pyweek competition will run from 00:00 UTC on Sunday 28th February to 00:00 UTC on Sunday 6th March. That's next week!Pyweek is a week-long games programming competition in which participants...
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Matthew Rocklin: Pandas on HDFS with Dask Dataframes
This work is supported by Continuum Analytics and the XDATA Program as part of the Blaze ProjectIn this post we use Pandas in parallel across an HDFS cluster to read CSV data. We coordinate these...
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