February 19, 2013 by
Mike Last week I was contacted about a cool sounding book project on Kickstarter: Real Python for Web Development, featuring web2py by Michael Herman. I have to admit that I'm not familiar with Mr. Herman or the person who originally contacted me about the book, but since I enjoy reading Python books and this one sounded […]
February 14, 2013 by
Mike I first heard about Blaze from NumPy's original developer's blog back in December 2012. A few days ago, InformationWeek announced that DARPA was funding the project to the tune of $3 million dollars to get some big data libraries written for Python. There will be two new projects, Blaze and Bokeh. Blaze will be an […]
I was approached by a representative from No Starch Press, the publisher of Python For Kids, to review their book. They provided me with a free dead tree copy and an eBook (PDF) version. This book appears to be in direct competition with Manning's
The other day, I was trying to figure out if there was an easy way to grab a class's defined attributes (AKA "instance variables"). The reason was that we were using the attributes we created to match up with the fields in a file we parse. So basically we read a file line-by-line and each […]
I forgot to get this article done for the first of the year as I have in the past. I hope you find some interesting reading material from this tardy post. I also hope my readers have had wonderful holidays and are looking forward to the upcoming year! Note: I use Google Analytics to help […]
If you do much system administration, then you know that sometimes you have to write scripts that can move files between servers. I'm not really a system administrator by trade, but I did have to do this sort of thing in some of my programs anyway. Python has several 3rd party packages that provide this […]
