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Holger Peters: Python Data Science Going Functional - Or: Benchmarking Dask
This weekend, I visited PyCon Italy in the pittoreque town of Firenze. It was a great conference with great talks and encounters (great thanks to all the volunteers who made it happen) and amazing...
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PyPy Development: PyPy Enterprise Edition
With the latest additions, PyPy's JIT now supports the Z architecture on Linux. The newest architecture revision (also known as s390x, or colloquially referred to as "big iron") is the 64-bit extension...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Month: Peter Damoc
This week we welcome Peter Damoc as our PyDev of the Week! I first came across some of Peter’s work in the wxPython source code. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better!Can you tell us a...
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Doug Hellmann: calendar — Work with Dates — PyMOTW 3
The calendar module defines the Calendar class, which encapsulates calculations for values such as the dates of the weeks in a given month or year. In addition, the TextCalendar and HTMLCalendar...
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Continuum Analytics News: High Performance Hadoop with Anaconda and Dask on...
Developer BlogPostedMonday, April 18, 2016Kristopher OverholtMatthew RocklinOverviewDask is a flexible open source parallel computation framework that lets you comfortably scale up and scale out your...
View ArticlePython Piedmont Triad User Group: #Dataviz #infoviz and other random things:...
Do you have a project you want to show off? Or do you need a second set of eyes on your code? Would you like to hack on an open source project? Perhaps you need help getting a module on a specific...
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Import Python: Import Python Weekly Newsletter will now have events section
One constant feedback from importpython subscribers is to add a event section to the newsletter i.e. Python Conferences and User Group meets happening in the world to the newsletter. Today we adding...
View ArticleCarl Trachte: 7-Zip-JBinding API with jython on Windows
I have a set of multi-GB Windows folders that I need to archive in 7-zip format each month. I'd prefer not to use the mouse to compress the folders "manually." Also, I didn't want to use the command...
View ArticlePython Engineering at Microsoft: Idiomatic Python: boolean expressions
You might think that boolean expressions — most frequently used as conditional guards which are the the bit of code that tests whether an if or while statement should execute — are a fairly...
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François Dion: Los Alamos 10742: The Making of
Modern rendering of the original 1947 Memo 10742Before readingIf you've not read the first part (The return of the Los Alamos Memo 10742) of this blog, go there now. There will be a link to come back...
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Muharem Hrnjadovic: arch linux, gnome-3.20 and xf86-input-synaptics
I am running arch linux with gnome desktop on a Lenovo Thinpad X230. Some time ago gnome 3.20 was released and apparently the synaptics driver is not supported any more.The only reason I ran into this...
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François Dion: The return of the Los Alamos Memo 10742 -
Modern rendering of the original 1947 Memo 10742The mathematician pranksterCan you imagine yourself receiving this memo in your inbox in Washington in 1947? There's a certain artistic je ne sais quoi...
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Richard Jones: PyCon Australia 2016 Call for Proposals!
Register and submit a proposal, or read on for more information.PyCon Australia 2016 is pleased to announce that its Call for Proposals is now open! The conference this year will be held from Friday...
View Articlehypothesis.works articles: Rule Based Stateful Testing
Hypothesis’s standard testing mechanisms are very good for testing things that can be considered direct functions of data. But supposed you have some complex stateful system or object that you want to...
View ArticleeGenix.com: Python Meeting Düsseldorf - 2016-04-27
The following text is in German, since we're announcing a regional user group meeting in Düsseldorf, Germany.AnkündigungDas nächste Python Meeting Düsseldorf findet an folgendem Termin...
View ArticleAbu Ashraf Masnun: Composition over Inheritance
Inheritance If you know basic OOP, you know what Inheritance is. When one class extends another, the child class inherits the parent class and thus the child class has access to all the variables and...
View ArticlePyCon: Sign up now to volunteer at PyCon 2016!
While commercial programming languages often enjoy large and spectacular conferences from their beginning — think of the elaborate JavaOne conference, staged barely a year after Java’s first release —...
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Omaha Python Users Group: April 20 Meeting Details
Topic/Speaker – TBDLocation – The recently opened Do Space at 7205 Dodge Street, Omaha. SW corner of 72nd and Dodge.Meeting starts at 6:30, Wednesday, April 20.
View ArticlePython Anywhere: The PythonAnywhere newsletter, April 2016
Spring is here, we're filled with good intentions, and here is another newsletter, almost exactly a month after the previous one, which is 800% better than our previous interval.So other than good...
View ArticleWeekly Python Chat: Operator Overloading in Python
Ever wondered how to make == work on your objects? Ever wanted to make your own list/dict-like object?Join this chat to learn how operator overloading can help make your Python objects feel more...
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