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Anaconda Partners with Teradata for AI with Python packages in the Cloud

Packaging, Python / Mike / April 9, 2024 / Python

Anaconda has announced a new partnership with Teradata to bring Python and R packages to Teradata VantageCloud through the Anaconda Repository. But what does that mean? This new partnership allows engineers to: Rapidly deploy and operationalize AI/ML developed using open-source Python and R packages. Unlock innovation and the full potential of data at scale with a […]

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uv – Python’s Fastest Package Installer and Resolver

beginner, Packaging, Python / Mike / February 27, 2024 / Packaging, Python

There’s a new Python package installer out now and it’s called uv. The uv package installer and resolver is made by Astral. Uv is written in Rust instead of Python and is super fast! Astral is best known for Python’s fastest formatter, Ruff. The uv package is meant to be a drop-in replacement for pip and pip-tools.

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PyInstaller – How to Turn Your Python Code into an Exe on Windows

Packaging, Python / Mike / May 27, 2021 / Packaging, Python

You have just created an awesome new application. Maybe it’s a game or maybe it’s an image viewer. Whatever your application is, you want to share it with your friend or a family member. However, you know they won’t know how to install Python or any of the dependencies. What do you do? You need

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Python 101: Episode #9 – Imports

Advocacy, Education, Packaging, Python / Mike / July 8, 2015 / Python, Python 101

Check out my latest episode of Python 101. This one is talks about how imports work in Python. You will learn about the following aspects of importing: import from module import submodule from module import * Enjoy!

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Python: Packaging with Wheel

6 Comments / Cross-Platform, Packaging, Python / Mike / January 10, 2014 / Packaging, Python

Python’s first mainstream package was the .egg file. Now there’s a new format in town called the Wheel (*.whl). A wheel “is designed to contain all the files for a PEP 376 compatible install in a way that is very close to the on-disk format”. In this article, we will learn how to create a

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wxPython: Updating Your Application with Esky

5 Comments / Cross-Platform, Packaging, wxPython / Mike / July 12, 2013 / Packaging, wxPython

Today we’re going to learn about one of wxPython’s newer features: wx.lib.softwareupdate. It was actually added a couple of years ago. What this allows you to do is add update abilities to your software. As far as I can tell, this mixin only allows prompted updates, not silent updates. Getting Started It’s built into wxPython

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Python 101: pip – a replacement for easy_install

17 Comments / Packaging, Python / Mike / July 16, 2012 / Packaging, Python

Pip Installs Python or pip is a tool for installing and managing Python packages, many of which are on the Python Package Index (PyPI). It is a replacement of easy_install. In this article, we’ll spend a little time trying out pip to see how it works and how it might help us in our Python

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Python 101: easy_install or how to create eggs

2 Comments / Packaging, Python / Mike / July 12, 2012 / Python, Python 101

Today we’re going to take a look at the controversial easy_install method of installing Python modules and packages. We will also learn how to create our own *.egg files. You will need to go get the SetupTools package to follow along. This package doesn’t support Python 3.x so if you need that, see pip or

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Python 201: An Intro to distutils

2 Comments / Packaging, Python / Mike / July 9, 2012 / Python, Python 101

Last time we learned how to create modules and packages. Today we’re going to take the package we created and use Python’s distutils to create a couple different ways to distribute our code. In this tutorial, we’ll be learning the following: How to create a setup.py file How to create a source distribution How to

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Another GUI2Exe Tutorial – Build a Binary Series!

Cross-Platform, Packaging, Python / Mike / August 31, 2010 / binaries, Distribution, GUI2Exe, Packaging, Python

This is the last article of my “Build a Binary Series”. If you haven’t done so already, be sure to check out the others. For our finale, we are to look at Andrea Gavana’s wxPython-based GUI2Exe, a nice graphical user interface to py2exe, bbfreeze, cx_Freeze, PyInstaller and py2app. The latest release of GUI2Exe is 0.5.0,

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A bbfreeze Tutorial – Build a Binary Series!

Linux, Packaging, Python, Windows / Mike / August 19, 2010 / bbfreeze, binaries, Cross-Platform, Distribution, Packaging, Python

The bbfreeze package also allows us to create binaries, but only on Linux and Windows. It’s just an easy_install away, so if you plan on following along with the examples in the article, you should go get it. The bbfreeze package includes egg support, so it can include egg dependencies in your binary, unlike py2exe.

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A cx_Freeze Tutorial – Build a Binary Series!

1 Comment / Cross-Platform, Packaging, Python / Mike / August 12, 2010 / binaries, Cross-Platform, cx_freeze, Distribution, Packaging

In this article, we will be learning about cx_Freeze, a cross-platform set of scripts designed to “freeze” Python scripts into executables in a manner similar to py2exe, PyInstaller, etc. We will freeze one console script and one window (i.e GUI) script, using the examples from the previous article in this series. If you haven’t done

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A PyInstaller Tutorial – Build a Binary Series!

Packaging, Python, Windows / Mike / August 10, 2010 / binaries, Distribution, PyInstaller, Python, Windows

In our previous article on building binaries, we learned a little about py2exe. This time around, we will be focusing our collective attention on the ins and outs of PyInstaller. We’ll use the same lame wxPython script from the last article for one of our examples, but we’ll also try a normal console script to

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A py2exe tutorial – Build a Binary Series!

3 Comments / Packaging, Windows / Mike / July 31, 2010 / binaries, Packaging, py2exe, Python, wxPython

I received a request to create an article on how to use py2exe and wxPython to create an executable. I decided to do a series on packaging instead. It is my intention to go over the major Windows binary building utilities and show you, dear reader, how to use them to create a binary that

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