No Starch Press recently sent me a book called Python Playground: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer by Mahesh Venkitachalam to review. I don’t normally get books from that publisher so I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the book is quite good. But I won’t provide any spoilers here as we have a quick […]
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I’m putting my book, Python 101, on sale for the rest of the month of December. You can now get it for 50% off of the eBook by using the following offer code: xmas2015 This code also works for pre-ordering the Python 101 Screencast, which is a series of videos based on the Python 101
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This week we would like to welcome Marc-Andre Lemburg (@malemburg) as our PyDev of the Week. Mr. Lemburg is a Python core developer and entrepreneur. He owns his own business eGenix and writes about Python on his blog. He is one of the founding members of the Python Software Foundation and is currently a board
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This week we welcome Nick Coghlan (@ncoghlan_dev) as our PyDev of the Week. Nick is a core developer of the Python language. He also write a pretty intense Python blog. Let’s take some time to hear what he has to say.
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Last month I wrote about context managers and a company called Webucator asked me for my permission to turn the article into a screencast. It ended up looking pretty good. Check it out below: Webucator has other Python related training too. I don’t know much about them, but if this video is any indication, I
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This week we welcome Arun Ravindran (@arocks) as our PyDev of the Week! Arun has a fun Python blog that is worth checking out. He is also the author of Django Design Patterns and Best Practices. Let’s spend some time getting to know Arun.
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This week we welcome Amit Saha as our PyDev of the Week! Amit is the author of Doing Math with Python and Write Your First Program. Let’s take some time to get to know Amit better!
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This week we welcome Brian Schrader (@sonicrocketman) as our PyDev of the Week. Brian blogs about Python and various other subjects of interest. You can get a taste of what open source projects he contributes to on his Github account. Let’s spend some time getting to know Brian better.
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This week we welcome Craig Bruce (@craigbruce) as our PyDev of the Week. Let’s see what he had to say! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): My background is in computational chemistry and cheminformatics. What that really means is that I’m trained to work in the small, and mainly unheard,
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Many programming languages have the concept of the lambda function. In Python, the lambda is an anonymous function or unbound function. The syntax for them looks a bit odd, but it’s actually just taking a simple function and turning it into a one-liner. Let’s look at a regular simple function to start off: #———————————————————————- def
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This week we welcome Jaime Fernandez del Rio as our PyDev of the Week. He is a core developer of NumPy. Let’s spend some time getting to know him a bit better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I’m originally from Madrid (Spain), where I earned my Mechanical Engineering degree.
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The wxPython toolkit added context managers to its code base a few years ago, but for some reason you don’t see very many examples of their use. In this article, we’ll look at three examples of context managers in wxPython. A wxPython user was the first person to suggest using context managers in wxPython on
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Python came out with a special new keyword several years ago in Python 2.5 that is known as the “with statement”. This new keyword allows a developer to create context managers. But wait! What’s a context manager? They are handy constructs that allow you to set something up and tear something down automatically. For example,
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This week we welcome Ryan Mitchell (@Kludgist) as our PyDev of the Week. Ryan is the author of Web Scraping with Python and Instant Web Scraping with Java. Let’s spend some time getting to know Ryan better.
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Packt Publishing recently sent me a copy of Mastering Python High Performance by Fernando Doglio. They also had me be a technical reviewer of the book before its publication. Anyway let’s do a quick review and if you think it sounds interesting, you can check out my full review too! Quick Review Why I picked
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