I got the chance to read the book NumPy 1.5 Beginner's Guide written by Ivan Idris and published by Packt Publishing
last month. My impression of the book...
0 replies - 906 views - 01/14/12 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...
0 replies - 423 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,...
0 replies - 181 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 - 177 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 - 184 views - 01/13/12 by Eli Bendersky in Articles
I’m a fan of Tornado,
one of the major async web frameworks for Python, but unittesting async
code is a total pain. I’m going to review what the...
0 replies - 558 views - 01/12/12 by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis 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 - 449 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 - 2898 views - 01/11/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
For those that haven’t yet had a look Cloudfoundry from VMware is two things, one of which is nice, one of which is very cool indeed:
...
0 replies - 802 views - 01/11/12 by Gareth Rushgrove in Articles
Never forget, Python uses duck typing and has typed objects but untyped variable names.
lfc = "Liverpool" # this is a string
manc =...
0 replies - 709 views - 01/11/12 by Giuseppe Vettigli in Articles
While the use of Python on Android has been made possible for some time now through SL4A, the Python for Android project has set out to make things even...
0 replies - 1805 views - 01/10/12 by Christopher Smith in Articles
This week I lost some time playing with Python's
sets.
After digging into
Python source code, I finally discovered there is what seems to be little
bug....
0 replies - 685 views - 01/10/12 by Julien Danjou in Articles
A fixed point for a function is a point at which the value of the
function does not change when the function is applied. More formally, x is a fixed point...
0 replies - 2171 views - 01/09/12 by Giuseppe Vettigli in Articles
Lately there has been a substantial increase in interest and activity in Functional Programming. Functional Programming is sufficiently different from the...
0 replies - 1330 views - 01/09/12 by Dhananjay Nene in Articles
In this post, active Python blogger Eli Bendersky reflects on the most interesting developments in the Python community from 2011 by following a fun Python...
0 replies - 880 views - 01/09/12 by Eli Bendersky in Articles
I’ve tried out this python code in Eclipse Helios (v3.6) with PyDev plugin installed and using Python
v2.7 interpreter. If you know programming in any...
0 replies - 1251 views - 01/09/12 by Singaram Subramanian in Tips and Tricks
This week, DZone has gathered together its top articles in every
major topical area. These Ruby and Python articles were chosen based popularity and...
0 replies - 785 views - 01/05/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
One of my favorite subjects is comparing and contrasting tools and
frameworks available today. Python and Ruby are probably the big 2
languages right...
4 replies - 5420 views - 12/16/11 by Jeff Dickey in Articles
A computer science degree doesn’t prepare you to be a programmer. Here’s an excerpt from a blog post I wrote comparing computer scientists and...
1 replies - 3789 views - 12/14/11 by John Cook in Articles
I’ve always thought that making HTTP requests in Python was a lot
harder than it should’ve been. Alone, the confusion between urllib and
urllib2 is...
0 replies - 1320 views - 11/21/11 by Mike Dirolf in Articles
mock is a library for testing in Python. It allows you to replace parts of your system under test with mock objects. The main feature of mock is that it's...
0 replies - 818 views - 11/18/11 by Michael Foord in Articles
In part one I talked about testing as Python’s version of compile-time checking. Fully
testing a project is tricky business. This is true across...
0 replies - 803 views - 11/15/11 by Daniel Gottlieb in Articles
Physically, sound is an oscillation of a mechanical medium that makes the surrounding air also oscillate and transport the sound as a compression wave....
0 replies - 485 views - 11/14/11 by Giuseppe Vettigli in Articles
I've recently been dealing with a bunch of concurrency issues in our
django app. Some of the views modify database rows (model objects),
which is...
0 replies - 939 views - 11/14/11 by Michael Foord in Articles
Before coming to Fiesta
I had worked with Java almost exclusive for the past six years. The
codebase at my previous company was about 2,000 files and...
1 replies - 2437 views - 11/14/11 by Daniel Gottlieb in Articles
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