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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, 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 [...]