February 2013

wxPython: How to Double-click an Item in an ObjectListView Widget

This week, I needed to figure out how to attach an event handler that would fire when I double-clicked an item (i.e. row) in an ObjectListView widget that was in LC_REPORT mode. For some reason, there isn’t an obvious mouse event for that. There is an EVT_LIST_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK and an EVT_LIST_ITEM_MIDDLE_CLICK, but nothing for LEFT clicks […]

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Real Python for Web Development Book on Kickstarter

Last week I was contacted about a cool sounding book project on Kickstarter: Real Python for Web Development, featuring web2py by Michael Herman. I have to admit that I’m not familiar with Mr. Herman or the person who originally contacted me about the book, but since I enjoy reading Python books and this one sounded

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Python Gets Funded by DARPA for Big Data Project: Blaze

I first heard about Blaze from NumPy’s original developer’s blog back in December 2012. A few days ago, InformationWeek announced that DARPA was funding the project to the tune of $3 million dollars to get some big data libraries written for Python. There will be two new projects, Blaze and Bokeh. Blaze will be an

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