Microsoft announced that Python is now a part of Excel! Guido van Rossum mentioned on Twitter that he helped the Excel team add Python to the popular spreadsheet application. You can get Python in Excel if you have the ability to access Public Preview versions of Office. This new feature allows you to write Python …
Once again the Python Packaging Index (PyPI) has been hit with malicious libraries. Over 3500 of them in fact. You can read more about this at The Register or the Sonatype Blog. The administrators at PyPI were quick to remove these libraries and minimize the risk of people installing them. On the plus side, these …
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Netflix announced that they are releasing a new piece of open source software that they are calling Polynote. Polynote is an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook that includes first-class Scala support, Python and SQL. Looking at the website, it appears to be built on top of Jupyter Notebook. Their top goals for the project are reproducibility and …
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This week, I didn’t have as much time to work on this as I would have liked. Ah well, hopefully you won’t find the quality of the news to be any less. It just so happens that PyCon 2011 had a couple of items this week and they were both good news. Be sure to …