This week we’re doing something a little different. Instead of just one developer, I am interviewing the main developers behind xlwings: Felix Zumstein & Eric Reynolds. Let’s spend some time getting to know our fellow Pythonistas! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): Felix: I am the founder of Zoomer Analytics, […]
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The other day, I came across an interesting project called sh, which I believe refers to the shell (or terminal). It used to be the pbs project, but they renamed it for reasons I haven’t figured out. Regardless, the sh package is a wrapper around subprocess that allows the developer to call executables a little
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This week we welcome Ian Cordasco as our PyDev of the Week. He is a very active contributor to many Python-related projects, such as Requests, Flake8, PyFlakes and much more. Let’s spend some time getting to know our fellow Pythonista! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): My educational background is
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This week we welcome Fernando Doglio as our PyDev of the Week. While Fernando hasn’t been using Python for long, he did author the book, Mastering Python High Performance for Packt Publishing. If you’d like to see what Fernando has been up to, I recommend checking out his Github profile. Let’s spend some time getting
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I recently came across a post by BusinessInsider that claimed that Python was one of the top eight languages to have on your resume in 2016. Python comes in at 6th place. However, the article cites an article on CodingDojo as its source of information, which was talking about “The 8 Most In-Demand Programming Languages of 2015”.
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This week we welcome Jeff Triplett @webology as our PyDev of the Week. He is the co-founder of the Django Events Foundation North America (DEFNA) and the current chair of DjangoCon US 2016. Let’s spend a few minutes getting to know him better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I
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This week we welcome Fabio Zadrozny (@fabiofz) as our PyDev of the Week. He is the current force behind the PyDev project, a Python IDE for Eclipse. Fabio works on many other projects, as you will see if you check out his github profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better.
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This week we welcome Mahesh Venkitachalam (@electronutIN) as our PyDev of the Week. He is the author of Python Playground: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer from No Starch Press. Mahesh has a very interesting blog that contains a lot of articles about hardware hacking. I recommend checking it out. Now let’s spend some time
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This week we welcome Florian Bruhin as our PyDev of the Week. Let’s spend some time getting to know our fellow Pythonista! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): My name is Florian Bruhin, I’m currently 22.9 years old, and living in Switzerland. I’m working as an electronical engineer (though, ironically,
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No Starch Press recently sent me a book called Python Playground: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer by Mahesh Venkitachalam to review. I don’t normally get books from that publisher so I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the book is quite good. But I won’t provide any spoilers here as we have a quick
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This week we would like to welcome Marc-Andre Lemburg (@malemburg) as our PyDev of the Week. Mr. Lemburg is a Python core developer and entrepreneur. He owns his own business eGenix and writes about Python on his blog. He is one of the founding members of the Python Software Foundation and is currently a board
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This week we welcome Nick Coghlan (@ncoghlan_dev) as our PyDev of the Week. Nick is a core developer of the Python language. He also write a pretty intense Python blog. Let’s take some time to hear what he has to say.
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Last month I wrote about context managers and a company called Webucator asked me for my permission to turn the article into a screencast. It ended up looking pretty good. Check it out below: Webucator has other Python related training too. I don’t know much about them, but if this video is any indication, I
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This week we welcome Arun Ravindran (@arocks) as our PyDev of the Week! Arun has a fun Python blog that is worth checking out. He is also the author of Django Design Patterns and Best Practices. Let’s spend some time getting to know Arun.
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This week we welcome Amit Saha as our PyDev of the Week! Amit is the author of Doing Math with Python and Write Your First Program. Let’s take some time to get to know Amit better!
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