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What’s New in Python: Asynchronous Comprehensions / Generators

Python / Mike / February 14, 2017 / Python 3

Python 3.6 added the ability to create Asynchronous Comprehensions and Asynchronous Generators. You can read about asynchronous comprehension in PEP 530 while the asynchronous generators are described in PEP 525. The documentation states that you can now create asynchronous list, set and dict comprehensions and generator expressions. Their example looks like this: result = [i […]

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PyDev of the Week: Lukasz Langa

PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / February 13, 2017 / Python

This week we welcome Åukasz Langa (@llanga) as our PyDev of the Week! Åukasz is the author of PEP 443 — Single-dispatch generic functions. He also authors an interesting blog, although it’s not just a programming blog. You can see what Åukasz has been up to over on Github. Let’s take a few moments to

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Book Review: Murach’s Python Programming

Books, Python, Python 3 / Mike / February 10, 2017 / Book Review, Python

I review books for the i-programmer website from time to time and they recently gave me a copy of Murach’s Python Programming by Michael Urban and Joel Murach. This book is long at almost 600 pages and it’s pretty expensive for the paperback. For those of you with short attention spans, I give you the

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New in Python: Formatted string literals

5 Comments / Python / Mike / February 8, 2017 / Python 3

Python 3.6 added yet another way to do string substitution that they are calling “Formatted String Literals”. You can read all about the concept in PEP 498. I take a bit of umbrage here in that the Zen of Python states that There should be one– and preferable only one –obvious way to do it.

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Pyowa Meeting (Feb 2017)

4 Comments / Pyowa, Python / Mike / February 8, 2017 / Pyowa, Python

The local Python users group, Pyowa, was restarted last night after a year and a half hibernation. I hadn’t been to one of their meetings in a few years, but I had decided at the end of 2016 to get it going again. Once the ball was rolling, we got multiple offers of sponsorships for

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PyDev of the Week: Michael Kennedy

PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / February 6, 2017 / Python

This week we welcome Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) as our PyDev of the Week! Michael is an author and speaker. He is also a Python and MongoDB enthusiast, and an entrepreneur. He is the host of the popular Talk Python To Me podcast as well as the new Python Bytes Podcast. In 2016, he founded the

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PyDev of the Week: Lisa Roach

2 Comments / PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / January 30, 2017 / Python

This week we welcome Lisa Roach as our PyDev of the Week! Lisa is one of the authors of PEP 526 – Syntax for Variable Annotations which is a part of Python 3.6. You can check out which FOSS projects Lisa is interested in over on Github. Let’s take a few moments to get you

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Python 101 Now FREE on Leanpub Permanently

Books, Python / Mike / January 23, 2017 / Python

After the amazing response I had when I made Python 101 free for a few days a couple of months ago (see here, I have decided to make it free (or Pay What You Want) permanently on Leanpub (PDF, mobi and epub): https://leanpub.com/python_101 Note: I am still selling it on Amazon, Gumroad and Lulu Now

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PyDev of the Week: Mark Haase

PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / January 23, 2017 / Python

This week we welcome Mark Haase as our PyDev of the Week. Mark is the author of PEP 505 – None-aware operators. You can check out what projects Mark is interested in over on Github. He also has a programming blog that covers various programming topics. Let’s take some time getting to know Mark better!

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Python 101 is now a Course on Educative

Books, Education, Python / Mike / January 16, 2017 / Python

My first book, Python 101, has been made into an online course on the educative website. Educative is kind of like Code Academy in that you can run the code snippets from the book to see what kind of output they produce. You can edit the examples that are executable, but you cannot save your

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PyDev of the Week: Cameron Simpson

1 Comment / PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / January 16, 2017 / Python

This week we welcome Cameron Simpson as our PyDev of the Week. Cameron is the co-author of PEP 418 – Add monotonic time, performance counter, and process time functions and the author of PEP 499 – python -m foo should bind sys.modules[‘foo’] in addition to sys.modules[‘__main__’]. He is also a core Python developer and enthusiast.

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New in Python: Syntax for variable annotations

6 Comments / Advocacy, Python, Python 3 / Mike / January 12, 2017 / Python 3

Python 3.6 added another interesting new feature that is known as Syntax for variable annotations. This new feature is outlined in PEP 526. The basic premise of this PEP is take the idea of Type Hinting (PEP 484) to its next logical step, which is basically adding option type definitions to Python variables, including class

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New in Python: Underscores in Numeric Literals

Advocacy, Python, Python 3 / Mike / January 11, 2017 / Python 3

Python 3.6 added some interesting new features. The one that we will be looking at in this article comes from PEP 515: Underscores in Numeric Literals. As the name of the PEP implies, this basically gives you the ability to write long numbers with underscores where the comma normally would be. In other words, 1000000

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PyDev of the Week: Oleg Broytman

PyDevOfTheWeek, Python / Mike / January 9, 2017 / Python

This week we welcome Oleg Broytman (@phd_ru) as our PyDev of the Week. Oleg is the maintainer of the SQLObject project. According to their website “SQLObject is a popular Object Relational Manager for providing an object interface to your database, with tables as classes, rows as instances, and columns as attributes.“. You can also see

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