PyCon: Become a PyCon 2016 volunteer!
A community conference like PyCon is run by volunteers. There are many ways to get involved if you are interested in serving the community as part of the team who makes the conference possible. Here is...
View ArticlePyCon: Announcing the PyCon 2016 Talks Schedule
The Talks committee has been hard at work since the Call For Proposals closed 5 weeks ago, and today we are thrilled to present the result — here are the talks that the committee has chosen for PyCon...
View ArticlePyCon: Startups will soon be pitching to join 2016’s Startup Row!
PyCon’s Startup Row kicks off our 2016 season with a pitch event March 9th, hosted by SF Python at Yelp! HQ. This continues a tradition started for PyCon Montreal 2014, where Startup Row held pitch...
View ArticleWingware News: Wing IDE 5.1.10: February 25, 2016
Wing IDE 5.1.10 improves analysis cache performance, fixes issues with Django app creation, avoids package dependency problems on newer Debian-based Linux distributions, updates the French...
View ArticleBrian Okken: Continuous Integration with Travis CI – Josh Kalderimis (PTP014)
Interview with Josh Kalderimis from Travis CI. Josh is a co-founder and Chief Post-It Officer at Travis CI. Topics: What is Continuous Integration, CI What is Travis CI Some history of the company...
View ArticleMarcos Dione: ayrton-0.7.2
This time we focused on making ayrton more debuggable and the scripts too. Featurewise, this release fixes a couple of bugs: one when executing remote code with the wrong Python version and another...
View ArticleBruno Rocha: ESEngine - Elasticsearch Object Doctype Mapper for Python
What is ESEngineesengine - The Elasticsearch Object Doctype Mapper ESEngine is an ODM (Object Doctype Mapper) heavily inspired by MongoEngine, developed with the idea that you have to "Know well your...
View ArticleInvesting using Python: 15 years of forex and CFDs tick data to MongoDB using...
This update solves one of problems with interrupting in long running database updates. We just: Collect a list of CSV file names and write to the list file. After each file insert into database will...
View ArticlePyPy Development: C-API Support update
As you know, PyPy can emulate the CPython C API to some extent. In this post I will describe an important optimization that we merged to improve the performance and stability of the C-API emulation...
View ArticleContinuum Analytics News: Getting the Most Out of Anaconda for Your Cluster
Developer BlogPostedThursday, February 25, 2016Kristopher OverholtWith our most recent Anaconda release, there are now two ways to use Anaconda on a Hadoop cluster, including alongside a Cloudera CDH...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python: An Intro to caching
A cache is a way to store a limited amount of data such that future requests for said data can be retrieved faster. In this article, we’ll look at a simple example that uses a dictionary for our cache....
View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 451] Brian Lange: Practical Jupyter at a...
One of the growth areas for Python over the last few years has been in the area of data science: Tools such as Jupyter (aka “IPython Notebook“), along with NumPy and Pandas, have made Python one of the...
View ArticleDoug Hellmann: So, you’ve released a broken package to PyPI. What do you do now?
Step One: Relax. It happens. Step Two: Realize that just like with email, there is no way to recall a message once it has been sent. Step Three: Release a new, fixed, package. Recently, several popular...
View ArticleMatthew Rocklin: Distributed Dask Arrays
This work is supported by Continuum Analytics and the XDATA Program as part of the Blaze ProjectIn this post we analyze weather data across a cluster using NumPy in parallel with dask.array. We focus...
View ArticleImport Python: ImportPython Issue 62
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View ArticleA. Jesse Jiryu Davis: Announcing WinKerberos
My colleague Bernie Hackett has published a new Python extension module called WinKerberos. It provides native Kerberos support to Python applications on Windows. It's a drop-in replacement for the...
View ArticleMarcos Dione: ayrton-0.7.2.1
ayrton is an modification of the Python language that tries to make it look more like a shell programming language. It takes ideas already present in sh, adds a few functions for better emulating...
View ArticlePeter Bengtsson: Whatsdeployed on only one site
Last year I developed a web app called "Whatsdeployed". It's one of those rare one-afternoon-hacks that turns out to be really really useful. I use it every [work]day. And I've heard many people say...
View ArticleKushal Das: Updates from CentOS Cloud SIG
Back in 2014 we started working on CentOS Cloud SIG. This SIG started with focus on packaging, and maintaining different FOSS IaaS platforms. We are not a vendor specific group, means anyone who wants...
View ArticlePyCharm: PyCharm 5.1 EAP 145.61.29: Django forms, debugger stepping filters,...
Today we continue the weekly delivery of PyCharm 5.1 preview builds with the PyCharm 5.1 EAP build 145.61.29.Download and try it today.Let’s look at the set of valuable improvements introduced in this...
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