Webucator recently contacted me to let me know that they have finished up an Introduction to Python Training that they are allowing people to take for free for the month of February. The course is made up of videos, exercises, readings, and quizzes. You can get it free by using the following code when you […]
The other day, I came across this interesting experimental package called import_from_github_com. The package uses the new import hooks provided in PEP 302 to basically allow you to import a package from github. What the package actually appears to do is install the package and add it to locals. Anyway, you need Python 3.2 or […]
This week we welcome Oliver Schoenborn as our PyDev of the Week. He is the author of the PyPubSub project, a version of which is included with wxPython. He has been an active contributor on the wxPython mailing list where I have always appreciated his insights. You might find his Dr. Dobbs article interesting as […]
Every so often you will find yourself needing to write code that traverse a directory. They tend to be one-off scripts or clean up scripts that run in cron in my experience. Anyway, Python provides a very useful method of walking a directory structure that is aptly called os.walk. I usually use this functionality to […]
This week we're doing something a little different. Instead of just one developer, I am interviewing the main developers behind xlwings: Felix Zumstein & Eric Reynolds. Let's spend some time getting to know our fellow Pythonistas! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): Felix: I am the founder of Zoomer Analytics, […]
The other day, I came across an interesting project called sh, which I believe refers to the shell (or terminal). It used to be the pbs project, but they renamed it for reasons I haven't figured out. Regardless, the sh package is a wrapper around subprocess that allows the developer to call executables a little […]
