Python Engineering at Microsoft: What do your users really think? Using Text...
Ever get the feeling your users aren’t that happy with your project? We all get those issues that are real downers on our repository. So I thought, let’s take these issues and make something fun. Using...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 201 Book Outline
Over the weekend, I spent some time rearranging ideas for my latest book such that I have have four specific sections of the book. Here they are:Part I – Intermediate ModulesChapter 1 – The argparse...
View ArticleBhishan Bhandari: Cryptography with an interpreter
Hey Guys, it’s been a long time since I published my last article. Apologies for the delay. Anyway, straight into the topic, Cryptography. Well, cryptography with python. This semester(V of Bsc CS) I...
View ArticlePython Software Foundation: A Million Children
Today, March 22nd, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begin to deliver 1 million small programmable devices to the UK's 11 and 12 year old children. The aim is to inspire a new generation of...
View ArticleItamar Turner Trauring: Learning from the programmers who built your tools
The software you use was written by developers just like you. They made mistakes just like you do, learned and improved just like you do. But you have a huge advantage: you can learn from the mistakes...
View ArticleMahmoud Hashemi: Enterprise Software with Python
When I first published 10 Myths of Enterprise Python on the PayPal Engineering blog, there were a lot of reactions. Some I expected:Surprise at Python in the enterprise space.Relief at more attestation...
View ArticlePyCharm: PyCharm 2016.1 RC2 is Available
With just a day before the official release of PyCharm 2016.1, today we’ve published the PyCharm 2016.1 RC2 build, which is already available for download and evaluation from the EAP page.The full list...
View ArticleJamal Moir: Mocking in Python - How to Bypass Expensive and External Code...
Do you want to be able to utilise the powerful tool that is mocking within your Python tests?Mocking is a useful tool and was vital to unit tests that I needed to write for a project I am working on....
View ArticleThomas Guest: Easy as Py
What makes Python Simple?I consider Python a simple language. Here’s why. Easy to ReadI can read and understand Python code (unless it’s wilfully perverse). Syntactic whitespace and the associated...
View ArticleFabio Zadrozny: PyDev 4.5.5: code-completion, pytest, python 3 parsing, debugger
PyDev 4.5.5 is now available for download.This release improved code completion was improved so that namedtuple is recognized (although this requires that it's fields are passed in the constructor as...
View ArticleRobin Wilson: How to: Get Sublime Text style editing in the IPython/Jupyter...
So, I really like the Jupyter notebook (formerly known as the IPython notebook), but I often find myself missing the ‘fancy’ features that ‘proper’ editors have. I particularly miss the amazing...
View ArticleInvesting using Python: Support Vector Machines (SVM) classifier (SVC)...
OK, I'm continuing my dive into machine learning. I will make two indicators - RSI, which tries to represent (as believed), mean reversion (more acurrately probably - momentum) and momentum indicator...
View ArticlePyCharm: Announcing General Availability of PyCharm 2016.1
Today we bring you PyCharm 2016.1, now available for download. This is the first update in the series of releases planned for 2016. Its outstanding new features for professional Python, Web and...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 201 – The handy defaultdict
The collections module has another handy tool called defaultdict. The defaultdict is a subclass of Python’s dict that accepts a default_factory as its primary argument. The default_factory is usually a...
View ArticlePython Piedmont Triad User Group: PYPTUG March Monthly meeting (Decimal...
PYthon Piedmont Triad User Group meetingCome join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (March 29th 2016) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the perfect...
View ArticleErik Marsja: Two-way ANOVA for repeated measures using Python
Previously I have shown how to analyze data collected using within-subjects designs using rpy2 (i.e., R from within Python) and Pyvttbl. In this post I will extend it into a factorial ANOVA using...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 201 Kickstarter Campaign Update – New Cover Preview
We’re halfway through the Kickstarter campaign for my new book, Python 201 and we’re a little over halfway to my first stretch goal. If you know anyone who would like to add to their Python skills, be...
View ArticleTryton News: Tryton Unconference 2016 - Call for locations
After last year's excellent Tryton Unconference in Buenos Aires, the Tryton Foundation already started to think about this year's unconference, which will be held just after 4.2 release due in...
View ArticleChris Hager: How to install Qt 5.6 and PyQt5 in a Python 3.4 virtual...
This is a simple guide on installing the latest Qt (currently 5.6) and PyQt5 on Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and Linux with Python 3.4, inside a virtual environment.Installation StepsPython 3 and...
View ArticleArmin Ronacher: Micropackages and Open Source Trust Scaling
Like everybody else this week we had fun with the pad-left disaster. We're from the Python community and our exposure to the node ecosystem is primarily for the client side. We're big fans of the...
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