February 11, 2011 by
Mike This weekly edition of Python News has quite the variety of topics. You can learn about how to create passwords, the new Enthought Python Distribution and about something called pylibftdi. Plus, I've added a section just for PyCon related stuff since they seem to be releasing a lot of info this month. For example, there's […]
February 10, 2011 by
Mike The other day on the wxPython IRC channel on freenode, one of the members there asked if there was a way to make the wx.FileDialog display more than one file type at a time. In the back of mind, I thought I had seen a Microsoft product that could do it, but I'd never seen […]
February 10, 2011 by
Mike PyCon USA 2011 is less than a month away! This year, they are promoting the use of Convore as a PyCon aggregator of sorts. I guess that means that the cool DjangoDose from last year is dead now. Anyway, Convore is similar to Twitter, but it has the concepts of Topics, so it's a little […]
I didn't really have much time last year to check out the first PyCon Poster session, but this year I'll have the time to really check it out. The last I heard, there will be 35 posters at this year's session and they have some pretty amazing topics. Here's a sampling: Using a Kinect to […]
It's time for your weekly dose of Python news. What happened in the last week? Or what did I find that I thought was newsy? Lots of stuff, it turns out. This week, you can learn about the controversy of PyPI, Tablib, a "fireside" chat with Python's founder that's coming up next month at PyCon […]
Last week, there was an interesting thread on the PyWin32 mailing list about how to read Microsoft Access databases with Python without having Access actually installed. Vernon Cole had the solution, but I noticed that Google doesn't seem to index the PyWin32 list very well, so I decided to write about it here.
