Issue #64

Over 9000!

May 3, 2013

Over 9000!
PythonAnywhere, Light Table and much more. 

Issue #64: Over 9000!
Friday,  May 3rd, 2013

 

Hi Pythonistas!

 

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News and Developments.

 

PythonAnywhere: Interactive Github Gist Console (pythonanywhere.com)


Light Table Python Support! (chris-granger.com)

 
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Discussions.

Light Table. What are your thoughts? (reddit.com)


Projects.

 

mini (github.com)

Those of you interesting in writing interpreters and programming languages will definitely want to take a look at this repository and the accompanying screencast.


python-goose (github.com)

I know have looked for such a library for quite some time. Given a link, goose will try to extract, titles, videos, and various other meta tags. Pretty useful for embedded forms, that show user how data will be rendered. Awesome!

 

django-celery-transactions (github.com)

Django transaction support for Celery tasks.

 

parsimonious (github.com)

Parsimonious aims to be the fastest arbitrary-lookahead parser written in pure Python—and the most usable. Pretty cool, check out the simple examples.

 


Python Jobs.

 

 

Developer (Atlanta, GA)

at Amplify Technologies

 

Python Software Developer (San Francisco, CA)

at Cyan, Inc

 

>>> More Python Jobs


Articles.

More web scraping with Python (and a map) (gregreda.com)


Why Tuples? (blogspot.ca)

Talks about the uses of tuples, and  why they should be used and when.


Creating Map Visualizations in <10 lines of Python (github.io)

This is pretty incredible blog post with the creator of vincent, which allows him to quickly create map visualizations.


Recognizing Numbers (johndcook.com)

Pretty cool library in SymPy, called nsimplify, which simplifies/recognizes mathematical expressions, very cool.


Why virtualenvwrapper is (Mostly) Not Written In Python (readthedocs.org)

Seeing that this is a frequently asked question Doug Hellmann has decided to write up why.


Lessons Learned Defying Joel Spolsky with Django (speakerdeck.com)

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Pycoder's Weekly Issue # 65
May 10th, 2013

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