This week we welcome Nicole Harris (@nlhkabu) as our PyDev of the Week! Nicole is the lead designer of Warehouse, the replacement for the Python Packaging Index (PyPI). You can see a demo version of the site here. She is also working with O'Reilly publishing on a Django screencast, which you'll hear more about below. […]
Python provides a great module for creating your own iterators. The module I am referring to is itertools. The tools provided by itertools are fast and memory efficient. You will be able to take these building blocks to create your own specialized iterators that can be used for efficient looping. In this chapter, we will […]
This week we welcome Peter Damoc as our PyDev of the Week! I first came across some of Peter's work in the wxPython source code. Let's spend some time getting to know him better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I'm 39 and I'm the oldest of five. I have […]
According to the Python documentation, deques "are a generalization of stacks and queues". They are pronounced "deck" which is short for "double-ended queue". They are a replacement container for the Python list. Deques are thread-safe and support memory efficient appends and pops from either side of the deque. A list is optimized for fast fixed-length […]
I have decided to offer a pre-order of the paperback version of my next book. You will be able to pre-order a signed copy of the book which will ship in September, 2016. I am limiting the number of pre-orders to 100. If you're interested in getting the book, you can do so here
This week we welcome John Cook as our PyDev of the Week! John has a fun Python blog that I read from to time and he graciously accepted my offer of interviewing him this week. Let's take a few moments to get to know him better. Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, […]
