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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This week we welcome Carol Willing (@WillingCarol) as our PyDev of the Week. Let’s spend some time learning more about our fellow Pythonista! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I love Python! The language, the libraries, and the community. I’ve met so many talented, creative Pythonistas in my Python
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Have you ever wondered how to process command line arguments in Python? Yeah, there’s a module for that. It’s called argparse, which is a replacement for optparse. In this article, we’ll be taking a whirlwind tour of this helpful module. Let’s start with something simple! Getting Started I have always found the simplest way to
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This week we welcome Michael Fogleman as our PyDev of the Week! Mr. Foglebird has been helping out Python programmers prodigiously on StackOverflow for quite some time. I know I’ve appreciated some of his answers when I’ve gone to look for help. He has a large list of personal programming projects on his website that
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This week we welcome Tracy Osborn as our PyDev of the Week. She is active in the Django portion of the Python universe. Let’s spend some time getting to know her.
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This week we welcome Trey Hunner (@treyhunner) as our PyDev of the Week! Trey writes a programming blog which is worth your time checking out. He is quite active in his local Python community as well as the worldwide community. Let’s spend some time getting to know Trey.
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This week we welcome Christopher Clarke (@realchrisdev) as our PyDev of the Week. Christopher writes a Python blog that is worth your time perusing. You might also find his github profile interesting. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better!
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This week we welcome Matthew Nuzum as our PyDev of the Week. Matthew has recently completed a Django training video that is being published by Packt Publishing. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better!
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I was recently approached by the author of the free eBook, Intermediate Python by Muhammad Yasoob Ullah Khalid to review his work. Yasoob is the fellow behind the Python Tips blog. The book has been released as open source on Github but can be downloaded as a PDF from ReadTheDocs. But before I go into
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This week we welcome Kenneth Love as our PyDev of the Week. He is active in the Python community via the Portland chapter of Django Ladies. He works for Team Treehouse creating Python courses. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better.
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