The unittest module is actually a testing framework that was originally inspired by JUnit. It currently supports test automation, the sharing of setup and shutdown code, aggregating tests into collections and the independence of tests from the reporting framework. The unittest frameworks supports the following concepts: Test Fixture - A fixture is what is used […]
This week we welcome Larry Hastings as our PyDev of the Week! Larry is a core Python developer and long time user of Python. He has a fun talk about Python's GIL on Youtube that is well worth your time checking out. He is also the mastermind behind the now defunct Radio Free Python podcast. […]
The urllib module in Python 3 is a collection of modules that you can use for working with URLs. If you are coming from a Python 2 background you will note that in Python 2 you had urllib and urllib2. These are now a part of the urllib package in Python 3. The current version […]
This week we welcome Barry Warsaw (@pumpichank) as our PyDev of the Week! Barry works on the Ubuntu operating system for Canonical and he's the project leader for GNU Mailman. He also used to be the lead maintainer for the Jython project. If you have the time, you should check out his website. Barry's Github […]
I get asked by publishers to review books from time to time. Last month, Packt asked me if I'd be willing to review for their book, Python Projects for Kids by Jessica Ingrassellino. Frankly I tend to avoid beginning Python books now because they tend to be very similar, but I thought this one might […]
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is used by many companies and organizations for sharing data. Python provides an File Transfer Protocol module in its standard library called ftplib that implements the client side of the FTP protocol. You can learn all about the File Transfer Protocol by reading the RFC 959 document on the Internet. […]
