The inaugural PyCarolinas event was wildly successful. Two tracks of talks filled up both large auditoriums for all of both days. Many thanks to the presenters who came from all over the USA to participate. We saw representatives from new Python user groups in Winston-Salem and Spartanburg.
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read moreI had the good fortune to have a talk selected for PyOhio, which is one of the most well organized Python community events and celebrating its fifth year this year. You may find my PyOhio presentation "Python Testing Fundamentals" here. Code samples for the presentation are available in tgz and ...
read moreAt one time or another, we all have to deal with Python modules which are simply wrappers around code written in other languages such as C or Fortran. Particulatly when it comes to scientific data, there are simply too many maintained and pre-existing code libraries to ignore. That Python is ...
read moreThis post is a rehash of a lightening talk I gave at the last TriZPUG meeting.
One of the more useful programming patterns when applied to Python is the Dispatcher Pattern. The getattr built-in function practically implements the entire pattern. It's one of those Python goodies which leads people ...
read moreWe do a disservice to the understanding of Python when we refer to Python identifiers as "variables" and binding as "assignment." The words "variable" and "assignment" are particularly loaded with meanings from languages other than Python. And those meanings do not reflect the dynamic nature of Python.
For most languages ...
read moreDrunken Python is presented in the spirit of Drunken Master. It's a place for my ruminations along my twisted path to code done well. I may be off from time to time. But with enough test cases, I'll get there.
I'm currently an applications analyst with the ...
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