February 21, 2011 by
Mike As PyCon approaches, the blogger community was invited to interview the speakers that are coming to the event. I chose Wesley Chun, writer of Core Python Programming and co-author of Python Web Development with Django. In this interview, I ask Wesley about his talk, Running Django Apps on Google App Engine and about PyCon in […]
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 […]
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 […]
It's almost the end of January already and PyCon USA 2011 is just around the corner. In this edition, we cover a wide variety of topics, from Python 2.7 - 3.x. We've got sprints, new books, web-related projects and good old recursion articles. Come one, come all! Read the news of the week! eWeek reports […]
In this article, we will be looking at wxPython's Wizard widget. No, it has nothing to do with Dumbledore or Gandalf. Instead, it is that dialog that you'll see when you run an installer or set up a template. Sometimes you'll even see them used for setting up mail merge. We will cover two examples […]
PyChecker is a cool tool for checking Python scripts for bugs. It works with Python 2.0 - 2.7. In this article, we will write some crappy code to see what PyChecker can pick up on. Then we'll improve the code according to what we find until the code checks out. According to PyChecker's website, it […]