The Zen of Python: Why timing is everything: Python is always evolving. The Python community has an unending appetite for feature requests but also an unending bias toward the status quo. As Python gets more popular, changes to the language affect more people. The exact timing for when a change happens is often hard, but …
Annual release cycle for Python, new Python Software Foundation fellows from Africa, and more updates: The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is a nonprofit organization behind the Python programming language. I am fortunate to be a PSF Fellow (honorable member for life,) a Python core developer, and the liaison between my company, Red Hat, and the …
3 easy steps to update your apps to Python 3: The 2.x series of Python is officially over, but converting code to Python 3 is easier than you think. Over the weekend, I spent an evening converting the frontend code of a 3D renderer (and its corresponding PySide version) to Python 3, and it was …
Java vs. Python: Which should you choose?: Let’s compare the two most popular and powerful programming languages in the world: Java and Python! Both languages have huge community support and libraries to perform almost any programming task, although selecting a programming language usually depends on the developer’s use case. After you compare and contrast, please …
How to write a Python web API with Django: Django is the comprehensive web framework by which all other frameworks are measured. One of the most popular names in Python API development, Django has surged in popularity since its start in 2005. Django is maintained by the Django Software Foundation and has experienced great community …
How to write a Python web API with Flask: Python is a high-level, object-oriented programming language known for its simple syntax. It is consistently among the top-rated programming languages for building RESTful APIs. read more: Opensource.com rachelwaston Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Diving with Sharks?
Simulate gravity in your Python game: The real world is full of movement and life. The thing that makes the real world so busy and dynamic is physics. Physics is the way matter moves through space. Since a video game world has no matter, it also has no physics, so game programmers have to simulate …
Switching from Python 2 to Python 3: What you need to know: Python 2.7 will officially become unsupported beginning January 1, 2020. There is one final bugfix planned after this date, but then that’s it. What does this end of life (EOL) mean for you? If you run Python 2, you need to migrate. read …
How to port an awk script to Python: Scripts are potent ways to solve a problem repeatedly, and awk is an excellent language for writing them. It excels at easy text processing in particular, and it can bring you through some complicated rewriting of config files or reformatting file names in a directory. read more: Opensource.com …
Perceiving Python programming paradigms: Early each year, TIOBE announces its Programming Language of The Year. When its latest annual TIOBE index report came out, I was not at all surprised to see Python again winning the title, which was based on capturing the most search engine ranking points (especially on Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, …
How to fix common pitfalls with the Python ORM tool SQLAlchemy: Object-relational mapping (ORM) makes life easier for application developers, in no small part because it lets you interact with a database in a language you may know (such as Python) instead of raw SQL queries. SQLAlchemy is a Python ORM toolkit that provides access to …
A dozen ways to learn Python: Python is one of the most popular programming languages on the planet. It’s embraced by developers and makers everywhere. Most Linux and MacOS computers come with a version of Python pre-installed, and now even a few Windows computer vendors are installing Python too. Maybe you’re late to the party, …
Building a non-breaking breakpoint for Python debugging: This is the story of how our team at Rookout built non-breaking breakpoints for Python and some of the lessons we learned along the way. I’ll be presenting all about the nuts and bolts of debugging in Python at PyBay 2019 in San Francisco this month. Let’s dig in. The heart of …
Sending custom emails with Python: Email remains a fact of life. Despite all its warts, it’s still the best way to send information to most people, especially in automated ways that allow messages to queue for recipients. read more: Opensource.com bexelbie Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Visiting Port Elizabeth?
Make an RGB cube with Python and Scribus: When I decided I wanted to play with color this summer, I thought about the fact that colors are usually depicted on a color wheel. This is usually with pigment colors rather than light, and you lose any sense of the variation in color brightness or luminosity. …
Learn object-oriented programming with Python: In my previous article, I explained how to make Python modular by using functions, creating modules, or both. Functions are invaluable to avoid repeating code you intend to use several times, and modules ensure that you can use your code across different projects. But there’s another component to modularity: the …
Parse arguments with Python: If you’re using Python for any amount of development, you have probably issued a command in a terminal, even if only to launch a Python script or install a Python module with pip. Commands may be simple and singular: $ ls Commands also might take an argument: read more: Opensource.com sethkenlon …
Get modular with Python functions: Are you confused by fancy programming terms like functions, classes, methods, libraries, and modules? Do you struggle with the scope of variables? Whether you’re a self-taught programmer or a formally trained code monkey, the modularity of code can be confusing. But classes and libraries encourage modular code, and modular code …