Talk Python to Me: #48 Building Flask-based Web Apps
When you think of Python web microframeworks, Flask is definitely near the top of the list. With almost 19,000 stars on GitHub it's a powerful and extensible web framework and it even powers the...
View ArticleRobin Wilson: Job: Research Assistant with Python & Remote Sensing/Image...
This isn’t normal content for my blog, but I thought a post here might reach people who would be interested in the job. Don’t worry, normal service will be resumed shortly – this isn’t going to turn...
View ArticleKushal Das: dgplug summer training student Farhaan Bukhsh
This is the second post in the series, the first post was on Sanyam Khurana.Your name (blog/twitter) and what do you doFarhaan Bukhshtwitter: @fhackdroidblogs: farhaanbukhsh.wordpress.comIRC:...
View ArticleDataquest: How to work with large JSON datasets using Python and Pandas
Working with large JSON datasets can be a pain, particularly when they are too large to fit into memory. In cases like this, a combination of command line tools and Python can make for an efficient way...
View ArticleDjango Weblog: Django security releases issued: 1.9.3 and 1.8.10
In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing Django 1.9.3 and 1.8.10.. These release addresses two security issues detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to...
View ArticleMalthe Borch: The Sign Up With Google Mistake You Can't Fix
Tue, 1 Mar 201618:30:00 GMT Today – by regrettable oversight – I exported my entire e-mail history to Fleep, a collaboration platform used by a new client. The mistake was all mine. I did not notice...
View ArticlePyCon: 2016 Python Education Summit
by Chalmer LoweWe are pleased to announce the speakers/talks for the 2016 Python Education Summit. Held during PyCon on Sunday May 29th, 2016, the summit is a gathering of teachers and educators...
View ArticleMalthe Borch: The Sign Up With Google Mistake You Can't Fix
Tue, 1 Mar 201618:30:00 GMT– Updated This blog post has been revised to more accurately reflect some details. Thanks to Fleep CEO Henn Ruukel for reaching out. Today – by regrettable oversight – I...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 101: All about imports
One of the first items you learn as a beginner Python programmer is how to import other modules or packages. However, I’ve noticed that even people who have used Python casually for multiple years...
View ArticleVasudev Ram: Recursive computation of simple functions
By Vasudev RamImage: Squares. Attribution: Vasudev Ram.I got this idea to compute some simple functions using recursion, after browsing a chain of links recently, that happened to lead me to the...
View ArticleKushal Das: dgplug summer training student Trishna Guha
This is the third post in this series.Your name (blog/twitter) and what do you doI am Trishna Guha (trishnag), a 6th semester B.Tech student with Computer Science and Engineering branch.Blog:...
View ArticleGraham Dumpleton: Speeding up Docker build times for Python applications.
I recently wrote a post where I talked about building a better user experience for deploying Python web applications. If one counts page hits as an indicator of interest in a subject then it certainly...
View ArticleReal Python: Python for Social Scientists
This is a guest blog post by Nick Eubank, a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of BusinessPython is an increasingly popular tool for data analysis in the social...
View ArticleContinuum Analytics News: Introducing Constructor 1.0
Developer BlogPostedWednesday, March 2, 2016Dr. Ilan SchnellI am excited to announce version 1.0 of the constructor project. Constructor combines a collection of conda packages into a standalone...
View ArticleItamar Turner Trauring: Don't memorize, automate!
Software projects are full of rules that you must memorize:"Do not modify this file, as it is automatically generated.""If you modify the SchemaVersion field in this module you must also edit...
View ArticleDaniel Bader: How to stop Django Rest Framework from leaking docstrings into...
How to stop Django Rest Framework from leaking docstrings into OPTIONS responsesWhen you make an HTTP OPTIONS request against an endpoint in a Django Rest Framework app you might be surprised about...
View ArticleRobin Wilson: How to: Get Python packages which need a C compiler installed...
Summary: Microsoft now provides a single, small installer to get all that you need to compile Python 2.7 binary packages on Windows!This is just a brief post to share the news on something that I...
View ArticleA. Jesse Jiryu Davis: Cat-Herd's Crook published in the MongoDB Engineering...
At MongoDB we write database drivers in ten programming languages. We try to make them all behave the same, but inevitably they vary. How can we herd all these cats along the same path? For years we...
View ArticleKushal Das: State of tests for Fedora Cloud and Atomic in March 2016
Till Fedora 22 release we have tested our Cloud images only with manual help. The amazing Fedora QA team organized test days, and also published detailed documentation on the wiki about how to test the...
View ArticleDavid MacIver: The easy way to get started with property based testing
There seems to be a common impression that property based testing is really for when you have code that manipulates perfect platonic objects with elegant algebraic relationships between them.And, well,...
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