PyDev of the Week: Carl Trachte
This week we have Carl Trachte joining us as our PyDev of the Week. Let’s spend some time getting to know our fellow Python programmer!
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PyDev of the Week: Michael Herman
This week we have Michael Herman (@MikeHerman), author of Real Python for Web Development, which was the 2nd installment of the Real Python course. Let’s spend some time learning more about Michael!
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wxPython: Freeze and Thaw
The wxPython library comes with a pair of handy methods called Freeze() and Thaw(). The call to Freeze() prevents the window from updating while it is frozen. This can be useful when you are adding or removing widgets and you want to reduce your UI from appearing to flicker. After you finish updating the UI,
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Mouse Vs Python Made the 11 Must Read Blogs for Python Devs
Code Condo recently named this blog, Mouse Vs Python, as one of the “11 Must-Read Blogs for Python Developers”. The article is worth a read as it lists a number of other really good websites, such as pydanny’s and Doug Hellman’s. I really enjoyed Effbot’s when I was learning Python, however I don’t think Mr.
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PyDev of the Week: Brian Curtin
This week, we have Brian Curtin (@brian_curtin) as our PyDev of the Week. He is a core developer of the Python language and the primary editor of the Python Software Foundation’s blog. Let’s spend some time getting to know more about Brian.
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PyDev of the Week: Luciano Ramalho
This week’s PyDev is Luciano Ramalho, the author for the upcoming O’Reilly book, Fluent Python. He was kind enough to spend a few minutes speaking with me. Let’s see what he has to say.
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Plotting Data Online via Plotly and Python
I don’t do a lot of plotting in my job, but I recently heard about a website called Plotly that provides a plotting service for anyone’s data. They even have a plotly package for Python (among others)! So in this article we will be learning how to plot with their package. Let’s have some fun
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PyDev of the Week: Werner Bruhin
This week we have Werner Bruhin as our PyDev of the Week! He’s quite busy on the wxPython Google Group helping people get into wxPython as well as creating patches for the wxPython toolkit. Let’s find out more about our fellow Python programmer!
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Using Python to Log Data to Loggly
One of my readers suggested that I should try logging my data to a web service called Loggly. As I understand it, Loggly is a way to share log data with everyone in a business so that you no longer need to log in to individual machines. They also provide graphs, filters and searches of
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PyWin32: How to Get an Application’s Version Number
Occasionally you will need to know what version of software you are using. The normal way to find this information out is usually done by opening the program, going to its Help menu and clicking the About menu item. But this is a Python blog and we want to do it programmatically! To do that
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PyWin32: How to Set the Desktop Background on Windows
Back in my system administrator days, we were thinking about setting the user’s Window desktop background to a specific image on login. Since I was in charge of the login scripts, which were written in Python, I decided to do some research to find out if there was a way to do it. We will
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Logging Currently Running Processes with Python
I was looking through some of my old code and noticed this old script where I was creating a log of all running processes every 5 minutes. I believe I originally wrote the code to help me diagnose rogue processes that were eating memory or pegging the CPU. I was using the psutil project to
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PyWin32 – How to Bring a Window to Front
I recently saw someone asking how to bring a window to the front in Windows and I realized I had had some old unreleased code that might help someone with this task. A long time ago, Tim Golden (and possibly some other fellows on the PyWin32 mailing list) showed me how to make windows come
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PyDev of the Week: Facundo Batista
This week we have Facundo Batista (@facundobatista) joining us. He is a Python Core developer from Argentina. If you happen to speak Spanish, then you might enjoy his blog. Let’s spend some time getting to know Facundo!
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PyDev of the Week: Ben Rousch
The PyDev of the Week this week is Ben Rousch (@brousch). He is a contributor to the Kivy project. You should check out his blog here. You can also see Mr. Rousch give a talk about Kivy on Youtube. Let’s find out more about him!
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