September 29, 2017 by
Mike Anaconda released a statement that they are partnering with Microsoft to "deliver Python-powered machine learning". Anaconda is a data science distribution of the Python programming language. If you go check out the statement, you will find that Microsoft is specifically planning to "embed Anaconda into Azure Machine Learning, Visual Studio and SQL Server". I used […]
September 28, 2017 by
Mike The wxPython toolkit supports using keyboard shortcuts via the concept of Accelerators and Accelerator Tables. You can also bind directly to key presses, but in a lot of cases, you will want to go with Accelerators. The accelerator gives to the ability to add a keyboard shortcut to your application, such as the ubiquitous "CTRL+S" […]
September 25, 2017 by
Mike This week we welcome Mariatta Wijaya (@mariatta) as our PyDev of the Week! Mariatta is the co-chair of the PyCascades conference, a regional Python conference taking place in Vancouver, BC. She is also a core developer of the Python programming language. She does automation and web development for a movie company, so she also shows […]
September 18, 2017 by
Mike This week we welcome Daniel Roseman as our PyDev of the Week. I stumbled across Daniel on StackOverflow via some of the Python answers he has given. He is in the top 0.01% overall on StackOverflow, which is pretty impressive. He also has an old blog with a few interesting Python related articles in it. […]
September 15, 2017 by
Mike Malicious code has been found on the Python Package Index (PyPI), the most popular location for sharing Python packages. This was reported by Slovak National Security Office which was then picked up by Bleeping Computer among other places (i.e. Reddit). The attack vector used typosquatting, which is basically someone uploading a package with a misspelled […]
September 11, 2017 by
Mike StackOverflow published a report last week in which they stated that Python has a solid claim to being the fastest-growing major programming language. Python was also called out as one of the top programming languages of 2017 over on the IEEE Spectrum website, which I covered in an earlier article. Python just keeps growing more […]
