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Mike Driscoll: Pre-Order Python 201 Paperback
I have decided to offer a pre-order of the paperback version of my next book. You will be able to pre-order a signed copy of the book which will ship in September, 2016. I am limiting the number of...
View ArticleMontreal Python User Group: MTL NewTech Startup Demos & Networking +...
PyCon is partnering again with MTL NewTech and Montréal-Python this year to bring one lucky Montreal startup to PyCon at Portland, Oregon, to present alongside with Google, Facebook, Stripe, Heroku,...
View ArticlePython Anywhere: System upgrade, 2016-04-12: Python 3.5
We upgraded PythonAnywhere today. The big story for this release is that we now support Python 3.5.1 everywhere :-) We've put it through extensive testing, but of course it's possible that glitches...
View ArticlePyCon: Registration is open for our Young Coders tutorial!
PyCon is excited to once again offer a free full-day tutorial for kids! We invite children 12 and upto join us for a day of learning how to program using Python. The class is running twice, on each of...
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Continuum Analytics News: Data Science with Python at ODSC East
Company BlogPostedTuesday, April 12, 2016By: Sheamus McGovern, Open Data Science Conference ChairHxO7gaZZ.pngAt ODSC East, the most influential minds and institutions in data science will convene at...
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Continuum Analytics News: Using Anaconda with PySpark for Distributed...
Developer BlogPostedTuesday, April 12, 2016Kristopher OverholtDaniel RodriguezOverviewWorking with your favorite Python packages along with distributed PySpark jobs across a Hadoop cluster can be...
View ArticlePython Does What?!: Base64 vs UTF-8
A common pattern when dealing with JSON data is to base64 encode binary strings. This is not strictly necessary, JSON strings can contain binary data (via UTF-8 escape sequences).What is the size...
View ArticleVasudev Ram: A quick console ruler in Python
By Vasudev RamI've done this ruler program a few times before, in various languages.Here is an earlier version: Rule the command-line with ruler.py!This one is a simplified and also slightly enhanced...
View ArticleKushal Das: Quick way to get throw away VMs using Tunir
The latest Tunir package has a –debug option which can help us to get some quick vms up, where we can do some destructive work, and then just remove them. Below is an example to fire up two vms using...
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PyCharm: PyCharm Migration Tutorial for Text Editors
If you’re a Python developer who uses a text editor such as Vim, Emacs, or Sublime Text, you might wonder what it takes to switch to PyCharm as an IDE for your development. We’ve written a helpful...
View ArticleGlyph Lefkowitz
I think I’m using GitHub wrong.I use a hodgepodge of https: and : (i.e. “ssh”) URL schemes for my local clones; sometimes I have a remote called “github” and sometimes I have one called “origin”....
View ArticleMatthew Rocklin: Fast Message Serialization
This work is supported by Continuum Analytics and the XDATA Program as part of the Blaze ProjectVery high performance isn’t about doing one thing well, it’s about doing nothing poorly.This week I...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #54 Enterprise Software with Python
How often have people asked what language / technology you work in and when you answered Python they got a little confused and asked, what can you actually build with Python? What type of apps? The...
View ArticleTim Golden: Network Zero
There’s a small trend in the UK-based education-related Python development world: creating easy-to-use packages and using the suffix “zero” to indicate that they involve “zero” boilerplate or “zero”...
View ArticleVladimir Iakolev: Freeze time in tests even with GAE datastore
It’s not so rare thing to freeze time in tests and for that task I’m using freezegun and it works nice almost every...
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Import Python: ImportPython Issue 68
Worthy ReadHave an idea for an app ? Create a new app, free with Azure App Service, now.SponsorCreate a scalable and fault-tolerant REST endpoint using Flask and PythonflaskLearn how to deploy a simple...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 201 – What’s a deque?
According to the Python documentation, deques“are a generalization of stacks and queues”. They are pronounced “deck” which is short for “double-ended queue”. They are a replacement container for the...
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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis: Code Podcast: Event Loop & Coroutines
It was a treat to talk with Andrey Salomatin for Episode Three of the Code Podcast. We discussed async event loops and coroutines in Python 3.Andrey doesn't simply broadcast an interview: he carefully...
View ArticleWingware News: Wing IDE 5.1.11: April 15, 2016
Wing IDE 5.1.11 fixes template debugging with Django 1.9, solves some dependency problems on newer Debian-based Linux distributions, avoids problems seen with newer git versions, and makes about 25...
View ArticleRobin Wilson: Previously Unpublicised Code: RPiNDVI
Another instalment in my Previously Unpublicised Code series…this time RPiNDVI, my code for displaying live NDVI images from the Raspberry Pi NoIR camera.It isn’t perfect, and it isn’t finished – but...
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