This week we welcome Wesley Chun as our PyDev of the Week! Wesley Chun, MSCS, is author of Prentice Hall's bestselling "Core Python" series (corepython.com), the "Python Fundamentals" companion videos, co-author of "Python Web Development with Django" (withdjango.com), and has written for Linux Journal, CNET, and InformIT. In addition to being an engineer at Google, […]
Python 3 doesn't have very much in its standard library that deals with encryption. Instead, you get hashing libraries. We'll take a brief look at those in the chapter, but the primary focus will be on the following 3rd party packages: PyCrypto and cryptography. We will learn how to encrypt and decrypt strings with both […]
The other day I ran into a use case where I needed to communicate with a subprocess I had started but I needed it to timeout. Unfortunately, Python 2 does not have a way to timeout the communicate method call so it just blocks until it either returns or the process itself closes. There are […]
This week we welcome Ed Leafe (@EdLeafe) as our PyDev of the Week! Ed is one of the co-creators of the Dabo Application Framework, which is a neat wrapper around wxPython and is aimed at building database driven applications, although you can use it for more than that. Ed also authors a fun tech blog. […]
This week we welcome Karsten Hilbert as our PyDev of the Week! Karsten took over the GNUmed project, which is a an open source electronic medical record program written mostly in Python. Let's take a few moments to get to know him better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I […]
I've been busily working on my second book, Python 201: Intermediate Python. In part one of the book, there are 10 chapters. I recently finished up the last chapter for that part of the book. While I have some tweaks I want to do to a couple of the chapters in this part of the […]
