Mike Driscoll06/15/12
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The pyflakes project is a part of something known as the Divmod Project. Pyflakes doesn’t actually execute the code it checks, unlike pychecker.
Stoimen Popov06/14/12
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This week's Algorithm of the week is in! It is focusing on the way linked lists are implemented is a basic task but more complex to build data structures such as trees.
William Soprano06/14/12
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Have you ever seen a socket.error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe message when running a Python Web server and wondered what that means?
Mike Driscoll06/14/12
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Python code analysis can be a heavy subject, but it can be very helpful in making your programs better. There are several Python code analyzers that you can use to check your code and see if they conform to standards.
Jay Fields06/13/12
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A post back in May brought on a conversation between a reader and Jay Fields on the subject of Aligning Business & Programmer Goals... Here's what transpired.
Mike Driscoll06/12/12
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How to submit a web form in Python: What's the simplest? Whats the most difficult? Read more to find out...
Rick Copeland06/12/12
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Continuing on in my series on MongoDB and Python, this article introduces the Python MongoDB toolkit Ming and what it can do to simplify your MongoDB code and ease maintenance.
Jay Fields06/11/12
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I'm a multi-tasking machine. I am the worlds most productive man, or so I liked to pretend.
Mike Driscoll06/11/12
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Possibly the most popular way to download a file is over HTTP using the urllib or urllib2 module. Python also comes with ftplib for FTP downloads.
Corey Goldberg06/11/12
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NEW VIDEO! This is a visualization of Python core development. It shows growth of the Python project's source code over time (August 1990 - June 2012).
Mike Driscoll06/10/12
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To my mind, the objectify module seems to be even more “Pythonic” than etree is. Let’s take a some time and go over my old XML examples using objectify and see how it’s different!
Fredrik Håård06/09/12
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A couple of months after PyCon, I can say with confidence what has been the best discovery of PyCon 2012 and here it is...
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis06/08/12
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In preparation for conferences, I came up with this tutorial on syntax highlighting for pycharm, pygments, and keynote.
Chase Seibert06/07/12
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Say your Django app is pulling some serious data, and you want faster response than Postgres gives you. So you really want to use, say in-memory sqlite3 as your database..but your bulk_create() isn't working. Here's a quick Django 1.4.0 workaround.
Mike Driscoll06/07/12
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A re visitation on the topic of converting numbers to Python. I found my previous example rather lacking so this should clear things up.
Alexander Beletsky06/06/12
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I will share some 'likes' and 'dislikes' I have about Python which I would think you will find intriguing.
Gerard Davison06/04/12
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I was was trying to run pylint and nosetest running on a Jenkins instance; but these python commands tend to return a non zero status code if they see a non zero return code.
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis06/06/12
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The follow up: Last month I griped about ResourceWarnings in Python 3 and Python core developer Nick Coghlan responded in the comments; here's what came of it...
Mike Driscoll06/04/12
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The following code is an example based on a recipe that Brett Cannon mentioned. I think it illustrates what he’s talking about, but basically if provides a way to remove the standard
Rob Galanakis06/03/12
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The opinion of one of your peers on the topic of getting burnt out, trying to keep going, and maintaining your identity as a programmer.
Mike Driscoll06/02/12
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A lot of fun things are happening in the land that is Python! Here are a few articles in one place for you to scour...
Corey Goldberg06/01/12
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Selenium-profiler is a web/http profiler built with Selenium-RC and Python. It profiles page load time and network traffic for a web page.
Mike Driscoll05/31/12
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Everyone who uses computers regularly knows that they can copy and paste text. What they might not know is that when you copy something, it goes into a location known as the “clipboard”. This is a how to use the clipboard in wxPython.
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis05/31/12
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A How-to with new and old Python threads... If a picture is worth a thousand words then this is worth at least 2 thousand.
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