Archive for the ‘python’ Category

Make a Windows installer for your python module

Posted on March 17th, 2009 by Alex Willmer

To help you build and distribute your Python packges, Python provides distutils. This library knows how to bring together your modules, where to put scripts and how to compile C extensions. The process is driven by a setup.py file, written by the package author or maintainer. Depending on what argument is passed, setup.py can install [...]

EuroPython 2009 open for registration

Posted on March 4th, 2009 by Alex Willmer

If you’ve enjoyed PyCon UK the last 2 years, the bad news is that it won’t be happening this year. The good news is that  EuroPython 2009 is coming to sunny Birmingham instead, for 3 days from Tues 30th June to Thurs 2nd July and registration is now open. The even better news is that [...]

Another Python cheat sheet

Posted on November 18th, 2008 by Alex Willmer

I couldn’t find a Python cheat sheet that I liked, so I made another.

Python cheat sheet 0.1 (A4, OpenDocument)

Python Cheat sheet 0.1 (A4, PDF)

It’s rough, but pretty usable. I need to make better use of space/colour, choose a clearer font and link it into the Python docs.
The license will be either Python Software Foundation License [...]

Tabular data with Python slides, from PyCon UK

Posted on September 30th, 2007 by Alex Willmer

At PyCon UK 2007 I gave a short talk on using Python to deal with tabular data. The slides, demos and modules for my talk are available for download.
There is material in the download that I didn’t present on the day. The talk covers extracting data from various tabular data formats. This is the first [...]

Python implementations matrix

Posted on September 30th, 2007 by Alex Willmer

For the last week or so I’ve been putting together a spreadsheet, to compare the various Python implementations on support of PEPs and library modules. It is ready for a first release, but far from complete:

CPython 1.5 – 2.5 coverage is good.
IronPython 1.0 – 1.1 has library coverage
Jython only has release dates
PyPy has not been [...]

PyCon UK early bird registration

Posted on May 19th, 2007 by Alex Willmer

PyCon UK, the first UK community Python conference, is taking place in Birmingham on the weekend of 8th – Sun 9th September 2007. Extra early bird registration ends on Monday. We’re offering both days including access to all tutorials, talks, sessions &  the conference dinner for the fantastically low price of £50 if you book [...]