Tarek Ziade: Kinto Work Week Recap
We just had a work-week in London on Kinto our JSON storage project, and while heading back to France in the Eurostar, I figured I'd give a summary of where we're at in the project and what's next.If...
View ArticleMontreal Python User Group: Montréal-Python 57: Call for speakers
In march, we are getting back to our root and visiting our friends of UQAM. For the occasion, It's an opportunity to come present cause we are looking for speakers for talks of 30, 15 or 5 minutes.For...
View ArticleMontreal Python User Group: ConFoo is coming!
ConFoo, a community conference, one of the most important events for developers. It covers a multitude of programming languages, including Python. There are a total of 155 presentations. Two of them...
View ArticleEuroPython: EuroPython 2016: Early bird ticket sales
After the Call for Proposals for EuroPython 2016 last week, we are now calling out to everyone interested in signing up as EuroPython attendee early. You will be able to benefit from reduced ticket...
View ArticleEuroPython Society: EuroPython 2016: Early bird ticket sales
After the Call for Proposals for EuroPython 2016 last week, we are now calling out to everyone interested in signing up as EuroPython attendee early. You will be able to benefit from reduced ticket...
View ArticleReal Python: Python-driven Web Applications
This tutorial explores how to create dynamic web applications with Python.Originally published in Real Python Course 1: Introduction to PythonWeb ApplicationsYou know how to write useful Python...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Cyrille Rossant
This week we welcome Cyrille Rossant (@cyrillerossant) as our PyDev of the Week! Cyrille is one of the core developers behind the VisPy project. He is also the author of several Python books like...
View ArticleDoug Hellmann: fractions — Rational Numbers — PyMOTW 3
The Fraction class implements numerical operations for rational numbers based on the API defined by Rational in the numbers module. Read more… This post is part of the Python Module of the Week series...
View ArticleRandy Zwitch: Calling RSiteCatalyst From Python
@randyzwitch Do you know if anyone has gotten RSiteCat running in a Jupyter Notebook that ran RPY2? Tired of using 2 different environments— Adam Gitzes (@FootballActuary) February 18, 2016This will be...
View ArticleContinuum Analytics News: Continuum Analytics Executives to Speak at Strata +...
NewsPostedMonday, February 22, 2016CEO Travis Oliphant, CTO Peter Wang and VP of Product & CMO Michele Chambers, among other experts, will discuss the latest advancements in the Big Data and...
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 ArticlePhilip Semanchuk: Maybe there is no current working directory
A few years ago I wrote a Django app for a client. One part of the app called os.getcwd(), and another part (that I thought of as completely separate) used a temporary directory to build...
View ArticlePéter Szabó: StaticPython released
This blog post is an announcement of the StaticPython software distribution and its first release. What is StaticPython?StaticPython is a statically linked version of the Python 2.x (currently 2.7)...
View ArticlePéter Szabó: How to try Stackless Python on Linux without installing it?
This blog post gives instructions on trying Stackless Python without installing it on Linux systems (32-bit and 64-bit). Use the Stackless version of the StaticPython binary executable, which is a...
View ArticlePéter Szabó: How to run Syncless on Linux without installing it?
This blog post explains how to run asynchronous, coroutine-based client and server I/O libraries like Syncless, gevent and Concurrence on Linux without installing them. On Linux, it's possible to try...
View ArticlePéter Szabó: Python 3.2 binaries released in StaticPython for Linux
This blog post is to announce that StaticPython, a binary distribution of Python, has just released Python 3.2 binaries for Linux. (Previously StaticPython contained only Python 2.7 binaries.) Download...
View ArticlePéter Szabó: What's the difference between StaticPython and PyRun?
This blog post explains the difference between StaticPython and PyRun. Both StaticPython and PyRun are free, portable binary distributions of Python 2.x and 3.x, for Linux, Mac OS X (and PyRun also...
View ArticleThomas Guest: Sledgehammers vs Nut Crackers
AwkI get awk and can read awk programs but find the language of little use. Its focus is narrow and its syntax can be surprising. Python matches it at home and smashes it away. Nonetheless, a number of...
View ArticleEnd Point: img.bi, a secret encrypted image sharing service tool
After a fairly good experience with dnote installed on our own servers as an encrypted notes sharing service, my team decided that it would have been nice to have a similar service for images.We found...
View ArticlePhilip Semanchuk: I’m not that type of variable
This is a story about the details of a C type leaking into Python.As part of testing my Python wrapper for SysV IPC, I wrote tests for the time-related attributes of the IPC objects that change when...
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