I was a guest on the Profitable Python podcast this week. You can check it out here: During the interview, I was asked how I would like to have Python runnable in the browser and I couldn't recall the name of a product that makes this sort of thing possible. The product I was thinking […]
This week we welcome Frank Wiles (@fwiles) as our PyDev of the Week! Frank is the President and Founder of Revolution Systems and President of the Django Software Foundation. If you'd like to know about Frank, you should take a moment to check out his website or his Github account. For now, let's take some […]
This week we welcome Paul Ganssle (@pganssle) as our PyDev of the Week. Paul is the maintainer of the dateutil package and also a maintainer of the setuptools project. You can catch up with Paul on his website or check out some of his talks. Let's take a few moments to get to know Paul […]
Python has several linters that you can use to help you find errors in your code or warnings about style. For example, one of the most thorough linters is Pylint. Flake8 is described as a tool for style guide enforcement. It is also a wrapper around PyFlakes, pycodestyle and Ned Batchelder’s McCabe script. You can […]
This week we welcome Raphael Pierzina (@hackebrot) as our PyDev of the Week! Raphael is a core developer of pytest, a popular testing framework for Python. You can learn more about Raphael by visiting his blog or checking out his Github profile. Let's take a few moments to get to know Raphael! Can you tell […]
Twitter is a popular social network that people use to communicate with each other. Python has several packages that you can use to interact with Twitter. These packages can be useful for creating Twitter bots or for downloading lots of data for offline analysis. One of the more popular Python Twitter packages is called Tweepy. […]