This week we welcome Brian Schrader (@sonicrocketman) as our PyDev of the Week. Brian blogs about Python and various other subjects of interest. You can get a taste of what open source projects he contributes to on his Github account. Let's spend some time getting to know Brian better.
This week we welcome Craig Bruce (@craigbruce) as our PyDev of the Week. Let’s see what he had to say! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): My background is in computational chemistry and cheminformatics. What that really means is that I’m trained to work in the small, and mainly unheard, […]
This week we welcome Jaime Fernandez del Rio as our PyDev of the Week. He is a core developer of NumPy. Let's spend some time getting to know him a bit better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I'm originally from Madrid (Spain), where I earned my Mechanical Engineering degree. […]
The wxPython toolkit added context managers to its code base a few years ago, but for some reason you don't see very many examples of their use. In this article, we'll look at three examples of context managers in wxPython. A wxPython user was the first person to suggest using context managers in wxPython on […]
Python came out with a special new keyword several years ago in Python 2.5 that is known as the "with statement". This new keyword allows a developer to create context managers. But wait! What's a context manager? They are handy constructs that allow you to set something up and tear something down automatically. For example, […]
This week we welcome Ryan Mitchell (@Kludgist) as our PyDev of the Week. Ryan is the author of Web Scraping with Python and Instant Web Scraping with Java. Let's spend some time getting to know Ryan better.
