Django Weblog: Django bugfix releases issued: 1.9.6 and 1.8.13
Today we've issued bugfix releases for the 1.9 and 1.8 release series. Details can be found in the release notes for 1.9.6 and 1.8.13.The release package and checksums are available from our downloads...
View ArticleGraeme Cross: PyCon AU’s Call for Proposals: one week to go!
The call for papers for PyCon Australia, including for the Science and Data miniconference, is down to its last week!Make sure you register and get your talk/tutorial ideas down as soon as possible....
View ArticleGlyph Lefkowitz: Letters To The Editor: Re: Email
Since I removed comments from this blog, I’ve been asking y’all to email me when you have feedback, with the promise that I’d publish the good bits. Today I’m making good on that for the first time,...
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Kushal Das: dgplug.org is now using Lektor
Couple of years back we moved dgplug into a static website. But still there are requirements when we do want to update parts of the site in a timely manner. We also wanted to track the changes. We...
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Caktus Consulting Group: Florida Open Debate Platform Receives National...
Several national publications have featured the Florida Open Debate platform, including USA Today, Engadget, and The Atlantic. Caktus helped develop the Django-based platform on behalf of the Open...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 201: An Intro to Iterators and Generators
You have probably been using iterators and generators since you started programming in Python but you may not have realized it. In this article, we will learn what an iterator and a generator are. We...
View ArticlePeter Bengtsson: How to track Google Analytics pageviews on non-web requests...
tl;dr; Use raven'sThreadedRequestsHTTPTransport transport class to send Google Analytics pageview trackings asynchronously to Google Analytics to collect pageviews that aren't actually browser pages.We...
View ArticlePyCon: Introducing our 2016 Keystone Sponsor: Heroku!
We organizers of PyCon 2016 are grateful that, amidst a roiling stock market and uncertain economy, so many sponsors have stepped forwardto assert that their relationship with the Python community is...
View ArticleAbu Ashraf Masnun: Python: Metaclass explained
One of the key features of the Python language is that everything is an object. These objects are instances of classes. class MyClass: pass a = int('5') b = MyClass() print(type(a)) print(type(b))But...
View ArticleWeekly Python Chat: Debugging in Python
Having trouble figuring out what your code is doing? Debug-by-print not working well enough? Come to this chat and learn about the Python debugger!George Khaburzaniya will show us how simple the Python...
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PyPy Development: PyPy 5.1.1 bugfix released
We have released a bugfix for PyPy 5.1, due to a regression in installing third-party packages depending on numpy (using our numpy fork available at https://bitbucket.org/pypy/numpy ).Thanks to those...
View ArticleDataquest: How to get into the top 15 of a Kaggle competition using Python
Kaggle competitions are a fantastic way to learn data science and build your portfolio. I personally used Kaggle to learn many data science concepts. I started out with Kaggle a few months after...
View ArticleMontreal Python User Group: Montréal-Python 58: Dramatics Chartreuse
We're close to a month before the next PyCon Conference in Portland, Oregon. We are organizing our 58th meetup at our lovely UQAM. Join us if you would like to feel what the Python community in...
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PyCharm: Debugger Interview with PyDev and PyCharm
PyCharm’s visual debugger is one its most powerful and useful features. The debugger got a big speedup in the recent PyCharm, and has an interesting backstory: JetBrains collaborated with PyDev, the...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: Python 201 Book Writing Update: Part 1 is Ready
I’ve been busily working on my second book, Python 201: Intermediate Python. In part one of the book, there are 10 chapters. I recently finished up the last chapter for that part of the book. While I...
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PythonClub - A Brazilian collaborative blog about Python: GitHub Pages com...
Publicado originalmente em:df.python.org.br/blog/github-pages-com-pelican-e-travis-ciOlá pessoal!Estou fazendo esta postagem para ajudar quem quer criar seu site no GitHub Pages usando Pelican para a...
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Import Python: ImportPython Issue 71
Worthy ReadRollbar - Turn Errors into Awesome Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. Get the context and insights to defeat all application errors. Check out the Python Integration of Rollbar...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #57 Python performance from the inside-out at Intel
When you think about the performance of your software, there is nothing more low level and fundamental than how your code executes on the CPU itself. Many of us study and try to understand how to...
View ArticlePython Does What?!: String optimization in Python
Strings are terribly important in programming. A program without some form of string input, manipulation, and output is a rarity. Of course this means that speed and sanity surrounding string features...
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Fabio Zadrozny: PyDev 5.0.0: PyUnit view persists state across restarts, Java...
PyDev 5.0.0 is now available for download.The major feature in this release is that the PyUnit view will now persist its state across restarts ( personally, I find this pretty handy as I usually try to...
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