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24 Dec 2015
Robert Wilson's top 5 Python modules of 2015. My favorite - tqdm - adds a progress bar with only one line of code.
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28 Sep 2015
Using mocks? Read this! engineeringblog.yelp.com/201… Everyone has this. :-(
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21 Sep 2015
Ever wanted to use a GOTO statement in your Python code? Now it's possible! Insane decorator patches your bytecode: j.mp/1OKLy9c
15 Sep 2015
TIOBE Index for September 2015: j.mp/1KnyowT x.com/gvanrossum/status/6436…
15 Sep 2015
Whoa, Python is ahead of PHP on the Tiobe index now?! :-)
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14 Sep 2015
Yeah, so Python 3.5.0 is really out! python.org/downloads/release… Thanks all Python core contributors!
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17 Aug 2015
It's today! Tickets will be on sale at 3pm UTC! Yay! Check time here: time.is/compare/1500_17_Aug_…. See you in November! 🚗🎸
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13 Aug 2015
Thinking about organizing a #DjangoGirls event in your city, but not sure what's involved? There's a manual for that! organize.djangogirls.org/
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12 Aug 2015
IPython 4.0 is out, completing the initial transition to Jupyter blog.jupyter.org/2015/08/12/…
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12 Aug 2015
A great decorator that retries a function until it returns True. Configurable retries, delay & exponential backoff:
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12 Aug 2015
Want to memoize (see previous tip) in Python 2? The memoized class is very convenient. Snippet from the Python wiki: j.mp/1MVzhPc
11 Aug 2015
Memoizing your Python function? Python 3 has the functools.lru_cache decorator. j.mp/1IBz90T
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8 Aug 2015
#python tip: In Python 3, you can simulate the Python 2 cmp(a,b) function with:
(a > b) - (a < b)
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"The __init__.py files are required to make Python treat the directories as containing packages" x.com/PythonDaily/status/629…
7 Aug 2015
What is __init__.py for? - bit.ly/1dthWqg
9 Aug 2015
Create multiple independent iterators from a single iterator using itertools.tee. Partitioning a collection: j.mp/1MVvZeK
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22 Jun 2015
#python tip:
s.rstrip() # remove all whitespace (spaces, tabs, newlines, etc)
s.rstrip(' ') # remove only space characters
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24 Jun 2015
#python tip: The str.startswith() and endswith() methods support an argument tuple:
supported = url.endswith(('.html', '.xml', '.css'))
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8 Aug 2015
You can modify globals(), but never locals(). You can modify x locally using exec("x=y"), but only in Python 2, not 3 j.mp/1hifQ68