December 20, 2018 by
Mike In this screencast you will learn about Python wheels and how to make your own. A Python wheel is a packaging format that allows installing a package without the need for compiling or building. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
December 17, 2018 by
Mike This week we welcome Irina Truong (@irinatruong) as our PyDev of the Week! Irina has been a speaker at several Python conferences and is a maintainer for pgcli, a Python package that is a command-line interface to the Postgres database. You can see what else she has been up to over on Github. Let's spend […]
December 12, 2018 by
Mike In this screencast, we learn about the Python egg, which was one of Python's old formats for distributing code. In modern Python, we now use a wheel. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub Previous Episodes Python 101: Episode #35 - The virtualenv Package […]
December 11, 2018 by
Mike In this episode, you will learn ye olde method of adding code to the Python Packaging Index. Note that while some of this video is still relevant, you should be using the twine package now for uploading to PyPI. See https://packaging.python.org/guides/using-testpypi/ for more information. You can also read the chapter this video is based on […]
December 10, 2018 by
Mike This week we welcome Steve Dower (@zooba) as our PyDev of the Week! Steve is a core developer of the Python language itself where he produces the Windows builds and installers. He also works for Microsoft. He has a blog that isn't updated that often but it is interesting nonetheless. You can see some of […]
In this screencast, we will learn the basics of how to create our own module or package. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub Previous Episodes Python 101: Episode #35 - The virtualenv Package Python 101: Episode #34 - The SQLAlchemy Package Python 101 […]
