The Python Programming Language
A very common doubt developers new to Python have is how to use its
threads correctly. Specifically, a large amount of questions on
StackOverflow show that...
0 replies - 408 views - 01/21/12 by Eli Bendersky in Articles
Today I had a need to create a property on an object "lazily." The Python builtin property does a great job of this, but it calls the getter...
2 replies - 2279 views - 01/20/12 by Rick Copeland in Articles
The goal of object detection is to find an object of a pre-defined class in an image. In this post we will see how to use the Haar Classifier
implemented in...
0 replies - 903 views - 01/20/12 by Giuseppe Vettigli in Articles
One of the early classics of program design is Michael Jackson’s Principles of Program Design (1975), which introduced (what later came to be known as) JSP:...
0 replies - 493 views - 01/18/12 by Steve Ferg in Articles
One of the methods of exchanging data between processes with the multiprocessing module is directly shared memory via multiprocessing.Value.
As any method...
0 replies - 478 views - 01/17/12 by Eli Bendersky in Articles
python -m SimpleHTTPServer is a very handy command that sets up a server listening on a port (by default 8080) having as document root the current directory....
0 replies - 1031 views - 01/17/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
In this post we will see how to visualize a function of two variables in
two ways. First, we will create an intensity image of the function and,
second, we...
0 replies - 765 views - 01/16/12 by Giuseppe Vettigli in Articles
Corner detection is an approach used within computer vision systems to
extract certain kinds of features and infer the contents of an image [Ref]. We have...
0 replies - 714 views - 01/16/12 by Giuseppe Vettigli in Articles
I use Google Calendar to manage my calendars,
and I really missed something to warn me whenever I have an appointment with
an alert set.
So here is an example...
0 replies - 1033 views - 01/14/12 by Julien Danjou in Articles
It took me a while to find this, so I'm just blogging it so other people
will be able to find it.
I wanted to send a desktop
notification using
pynotify, but...
0 replies - 318 views - 01/13/12 by Julien Danjou in Articles
I wanted to install James Dennis’s Brubeck web framework, but lately I’ve become fanatical about installing nothing, nothing, in the system-wide...
0 replies - 283 views - 01/13/12 by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis in Articles
I’m happy and proud to announce the release of a new open-source Python package to the world. pyelftools
is a pure-Python library for parsing and analyzing...
0 replies - 323 views - 01/13/12 by Eli Bendersky in Articles
Parts of the Fiesta API (as well as some new features we’re rolling out for Fiesta
itself) rely on the ability to automatically generate clean text...
0 replies - 600 views - 01/12/12 by Mike Dirolf in Articles
Calling all Pythonistas (Pythonistos?) and Djangonauts! Did you know that Python is ranked 3rd behind Java and JavaScript as the programming language that...
0 replies - 3536 views - 01/11/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Never forget, Python uses duck typing and has typed objects but untyped variable names.
lfc = "Liverpool" # this is a string
manc = "Manchester...
0 replies - 887 views - 01/11/12 by Giuseppe Vettigli in Articles