The second day of the PyCon 2017 conference was kicked off by breakfast with people from NASA and Pixar, among others, followed by several lightning talks. I didn’t see them all, but they were kind of fun. Then they moved on to the day’s first keynote by Lisa Guo & Hui Ding from Instagram. I […]
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This is my first PyCon in 6 years. My last being in Atlanta. This year, PyCon is in Portland, OR. My first conference day I managed to miss the morning talks due to rooms getting overly full. So I ended up on the hallway track instead and got to speak with various members of the
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I am putting my interactive Educative Python courses on Sale for PyCon this week. You can get Python 101 and Python 201: Intermediate Python for 50% off. Here are the coupon codes you can use: For Python 101 – au-pycon-py101 For Python 201 – au-pycon-py201 Educative is also doing a 50% off sale on their Python
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The wxPython GUI toolkit comes with many widgets. A common control is a tree widget. wxPython has several different tree widgets, including the regular wx.TreeCtrl, the newer DVC_TreeCtrl and the pure Python variants, CustomTreeCtrl and HyperTreeList. In this article, we will focus on the regular wx.TreeCtrl and learn the basics of how to create and
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This week we welcome Anand Balachandran Pillai as our PyDev of the Week! Anand is the author of a new book called Software Architecture with Python from Packt Publishing. He is the founder of the Bangalore Python Users Group (BangPypers) and a member of the Python Software Foundation. Let’s take a few moments to get
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This week we welcome Agata Grdal as our PyDev of the Week! Agata is heavily involved in her local Django Girls group in Europe as well as PyLadies. You can learn more about Agata on the DjangoGirls blog. Agata is also has some fun projects on her Github profile that you can check out. Let’s
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This week we welcome Jessica McKellar (@jessicamckellar) as our PyDev of the Week! Jessica is a former Director for the Python Software Foundation and a successful entrepreneur. She is also an author for O’Reilly and has been a core developer for the Twisted framework. You can check out her website or her Github profile to
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Learn about some of the amazing free resources you can use to learn the Python programming language!
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I stumbled across the pywebview project a couple of weeks ago. The pywebview package “is a lightweight cross-platform wrapper around a webview component that allows to display HTML content in its own native GUI window.” It uses WebKit on OSX and Linux and Trident (MSHTML) on Windows, which is actually what wxPython’s webview widget also
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This week we welcome Honza Král (@HonzaKral) as our PyDev of the Week! Honza is one of the core developers of the Django web framework. He is also the maintainer of the official Python client to Elasticsearch. You can see some of the projects he is interested in or working on over at Github. Let’s
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The wxPython project made a major announcement over the weekend in releasing an alpha version of the new wxPython “Phoenix” package to the Python Packaging Index (PyPI). wxPython is a major cross-platform desktop graphics user interface toolkit for Python. It wraps wxWidgets and is one of the major competitors to PyQt. All new releases of
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This week we welcome James Bennett as our PyDev of the Week! James is one of the core developers of the Django web framework. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Django Software Foundation. James maintains a blog and has several fun projects over on Github that are worth checking out. Now
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This week we welcome PaweÅ‚ Piotr Przeradowski (@squeaky_pl ) as our PyDev of the Week! Pawel is the creative mind behind Japronto, which is a Python 3.5+ web micro-framework integrated with pipelining HTTP server based on uvloop and picohttpparser. Pawel has a couple of other interesting projects over on Github as well. Let’s take a
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This week we welcome Russell Keith-Magee as our PyDev of the Week! Russell is a core Django developer and former president of the Django software Foundation. He has been a contributor to the open source community for quite some time. You can see some of his contributions over on Github. He is also the founder
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This week we welcome Roman Sirokov as our PyDev of the Week! He is the author of pywebview, which is a cross-platform lightweight native wrapper around a web view component. You can basically create a desktop user interface using web technologies and frameworks. He is quite active on Github where you can see all the
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