A guide exploring the immense challenges and technical steps required to create a high-performance Python implementation from scratch.
An in-depth guide to Python's super() function, explaining its capabilities, practical use cases, and best practices for effective inheritance.
A guide to setting up a virtual environment and project structure for Django applications, covering OSX and Ubuntu.
Explores a subtle bug in Python 2 set comparisons involving custom __eq__ methods and how it's resolved in Python 3.
Announcement for a 2-year junior engineer position to work on the scikit-learn machine learning library at INRIA near Paris.
Developer shares excitement about a summer internship at Quora, focusing on migrating the site to PyPy and performance tuning.
EuroScipy conference in Paris announces program details, keynote speakers, and a new poster session. Submission deadline is May 8th.
A PyPy developer details optimizing Python code for the Computer Language Shootout benchmarks, revealing CPython-specific hacks and cross-implementation challenges.
A developer's journal documenting their participation in PyWeek #12, a game jam, detailing the creation of a side-scrolling platformer using Python and pyglet.
The scikit-learn team announces a community sprint on April 1st for improving the Python machine learning library, with in-person and remote participation.
A recap of the PyPy team's San Francisco tour, including sprints at Noisebridge and tech talks at Google and Mozilla, focusing on performance improvements and compiler discussions.
A guide to Christoph Gohlke's repository of pre-compiled Windows binaries for scientific Python packages like NumPy, SciPy, and scikit-learn.
A research group seeks a post-doc for the AzureBrain project, using Python for parallel computing and statistics on brain imaging/genetics data.
The article discusses the declining practice of reading open source code and proposes adding direct source links to Python documentation to encourage developers to engage with source.
A preview of PyCon 2011 highlighting great talks, the hallway track, sprints, and urging early registration.
An introduction to the Tipfy web framework, a lightweight Python framework specifically designed for Google App Engine development.
A guide to using tox, a Python testing tool, for multi-environment testing, documentation building, and dependency management.
A developer shares his new role as a Google App Engine API Expert for Japan, aiming to support and educate other developers in the region.
Explains the difference between ICA and PCA using scikit-learn code, advocating for runnable examples over static visuals in scientific materials.
A proposal for a distributed, community-powered continuous integration system for Python projects, inspired by Test Swarm, to handle complex multi-environment testing.
