Home

Languages

DZone's Bringing You More Python Awesomeness



This content is part of the Python Zone, which is presented to you by DZone and New Relic. Visit the Python Zone for news, tips, and tutorials on the Python programming language.  provides the resources and best practices to help you monitor these applications.

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 - 3353 views - 01/11/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Python Sets Comparisons

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 - 761 views - 01/10/12 by Julien Danjou in Articles

Functional Programming with Python – Part 1

Lately there has been a substantial increase in interest and activity in Functional Programming. Functional Programming is sufficiently different from the...

0 replies - 1562 views - 01/09/12 by Dhananjay Nene in Articles

New Year’s Python Meme 2011

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 - 974 views - 01/09/12 by Eli Bendersky in Articles

Getting Started with Python – A simple example with all basic stuff

I’ve tried out this

0 replies - 1375 views - 01/09/12 by Singaram Subramanian in Tips and Tricks

Sphinx doctests and the execution namespace

I've finally started work on the documentation for mock 0.8 release, and much of it involves converting the write-ups I did in the blog entries. The mock...

0 replies - 602 views - 01/03/12 by Michael Foord in Articles

Application Performance Testing: From Conception to Gravestone

0 replies - 939 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

Why Load Testing From The Cloud Doesn't Work

0 replies - 913 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

Web Load Testing is Good Business

0 replies - 912 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

Requests: A Painless HTTP Client for Python

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 - 1376 views - 11/21/11 by Mike Dirolf in Articles

Another approach to mocking properties in Python

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 - 852 views - 11/18/11 by Michael Foord in Articles

Developing (a.k.a. Testing) in Python - Part 3: Monkey Patching

* This is part 3 of a series on Python test cases.  If you need to catch up, check out part 1 and part 2 before continuing. *  At Fiesta we run our own...

0 replies - 831 views - 11/16/11 by Daniel Gottlieb in Articles

Developing (a.k.a. Testing) in Python - Part 2

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 - 835 views - 11/15/11 by Daniel Gottlieb in Articles

Developing (a.k.a. Testing) in Python - Part 1: Python and Java

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 300,000...

1 replies - 2490 views - 11/14/11 by Daniel Gottlieb in Articles