Chris Hager: Find broken hyperlinks in a PDF document with PDFx
PDFx is a free command-line tool to extract references, links and metadata from PDF files. You can also use it to find broken links in a PDF file, using pdfx -c:For each URL and PDF reference, pdfx...
View ArticleBangPypers: March 2016 BangPypers Workshop Report
March Bangpypers meetup happened at the calm.io. 30 people attended the meetup. Session started around 10:30.Jitendra Agrawal conducted workshop on Solr and Indrajit Rajtilak volunteered for the...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (xi) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2016-03-19 09:09:01 GMTCounterintuitive behaviour of int() in python -...
View ArticlePython 4 Kids: Python for Kids Book: Project 2
In these posts I outline the contents of each project in my book Python For Kids For Dummies. If you have questions or comments about the project listed in the title post them here. Any improvements...
View ArticlePyPy Development: PyPy 5.0.1 bugfix released
PyPy 5.0.1 We have released a bugfix for PyPy 5.0, after reports that the newly released lxml 3.6.0, which now supports PyPy 5.0 +, can crash on large files. Thanks to those who reported the crash....
View ArticleCatalin George Festila: Free ebook from O'Reilly - Functional Programming in...
You can download your free ebook from O'Reilly.The Functional Programming in Python by David Mertz - publisher: O'Reilly - released: June 2015.David Mertz is a director of the Python Software...
View ArticleJulien Tayon: I still find with the examples used for teaching OOP...
After the stupid example with the taxonomy of the species/car/employees that makes you do a lot of inheritance one of the valid use case for OOP is 2D geometry : points & rectangles.This is the...
View ArticleKushal Das: Day Two of FOSSASIA 2016
I had to leave early to the venue for day two, as I had a welcome talk in the Python track. The morning started with the “Introduction to GSOC, and GCI” talk from Stephanie Taylor. The room was full...
View ArticleProgramando Ciência: [EVENT] SciPy Latin America 2016
Hey scientist! Have you ever thought about participating in the largest Latin America event about scientific Python, and connecting to the members of the coolest programming community of the world?...
View ArticleSylvain Hellegouarch: An asynchronous CherryPy server based on asyncio
CherryPy is a minimalist web application server written in Python. Hundreds of people have relied on it for more than fourteen years now. Recently, I’ve gained interest in the native asynchronous...
View ArticleKracekumar Ramaraju: Permissions in Django Admin
Admin dashboard is one of the Django’s useful feature. Admin dashboard allows super users to create, read, update, delete database objects. The super users have full control over the data. Staff user...
View ArticleGrzegorz Śliwiński: Running python tests on Travis's OSX workers
I, and my colleages are running tests mostly on linux, since our packages usually are clean python implementation. However, for mirakuru, which we use to govern processes in tests, and by extension...
View ArticlePython Diary: Introducing PyCARS!
I recently purchased a second Raspberry Pi, the model 2, and a 7" touch screen. Originally I was going to use it to build a home automation HUD which I could place either on my wall or in my living...
View ArticleVasudev Ram: Motto for Python newbies
By Vasudev RamAlso see:10,000 Hours of PracticeOutliers - Malcolm Gladwell bookThe Python Interview- Vasudev Ram - Online Python training and programmingSignup to hear about new products and services I...
View ArticleThomas Guest: Sausages, sausages, sausages - slice, slice, slice
A friend asked for help reaching the next level of a puzzle game. The test which stalled her involves machine placement in a sausage factory. … each sausage was branded with a letter for quality...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #51 SigOpt: Optimizing Everything with Python
You've heard that machine intelligence is going to transform our lives any day now. This is usually presented in a way that is vague and non-descript. <br/> <br/> This week on Talk Python...
View ArticleKay Hayen: Nuitka Release 0.5.20
This is to inform you about the new stable release of Nuitka. It is the extremely compatible Python compiler. Please see the page "What is Nuitka?" for an overview.This release is mostly about catching...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Massimo DiPierro
This week we welcome Massimo DiPierro (@mdipierro) as our PyDev of the Week! Massimo is the inventor and lead developer of web2py, but he’s also contributed to lots of other projects which you can see...
View ArticleDoug Hellmann: datetime — Date and Time Value Manipulation — PyMOTW 3
datetime contains functions and classes for working with dates and times, separately and together. Read more… This post is part of the Python Module of the Week series for Python 3. See PyMOTW.com for...
View ArticlePyCon: Startup Row: UtilityAPI won the SF Python pitch event
A post by Don Sheu, one of our Startup Row Coordinators PyCon 2016’s Startup Row got our campaign on the road on March 9th in San Francisco, meeting with the local SF Python user group at Yelp...
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