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How To Tackle Python 'Head First'

By ggiles2 : 16 November 2010 - 01:41 PM
Five Tips for Python By Paul Barry, author of Head First Python, publishing Nov. 17 (O'Reilly Media; $49.99 USD). 1. Don't work too hard--let Python do the work for you. When programmer...
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Python: name not defined.

Asked by ragmop12 : 20 September 2010 - 08:39 AM

Answered by GT_Fish : Sep 30 2010 03:05 PM
I'm guessing that NMFUTPOPS.py is the name of a file containing a python script. You can get python to "process" a file containing a script by running: python NMFUTPOPS.py In your mes... full answer >
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Use BeautifulSoup to parse data.gov

By odewahn1 : 25 August 2010 - 07:21 AM
Data.gov is a tremendous information resource that lists thousands of data sets collected and managed by various Federal agencies. I was interested in seeing which ones were being used the most. Unf...
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How to write an elmcity event parser plug-in

By JonUdell : 17 August 2010 - 10:43 AM
Introduction The vast majority of event information on the web is unavailable as structured data. The elmcity project tackles this problem by empowering curators to create syndicated networks of ...
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New Iterables in Python 3.0

By adfm : 02 June 2010 - 04:43 PM
This excerpt from Mark Lutz' Learning Python introduces you to the New Iterables in Python 3.0. With it you'll learn about the range, map, zip, filter and dictionary view iterators. You'll also lear...
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How to Change Strings in Python

By adfm : 26 May 2010 - 10:34 AM
In Python, a string is an immutable sequence. In this excerpt from Mark Lutz's Learning Python you'll learn how to change strings using concatenation and slicing. You'll also be introduced to Python...
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How to use the Google Suggest API to come up with topics for Answers

By odewahn1 : 24 May 2010 - 12:01 PM
Google has a nice little RESTful API that powers the auto-suggest function: http://blogoscoped.c...-08-17-n22.html The API returns the top 10 suggestions for the given query, plus the number of time...
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What kind of Django book would you like to see from O'Reilly?

Asked by juliesteele : 13 April 2010 - 01:17 PM

Answered by macbraughton : May 01 2010 07:06 AM
I'd like to see more about using Django to build webapps with the Google App Engine. full answer >
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Building a UTF8 (Unicode) Sanitizer for Python

Asked by brian.mcconnell : 06 April 2010 - 02:11 PM

Answered by hlian : May 25 2010 06:07 AM
I would first run the bytes through Mark Pilgrim's Universal Encoding Detector, which should allow you to detect the common encodings you mentioned without any fuss. It even spits out scores for e... full answer >
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How to Configure Python

By adfm : 26 March 2010 - 12:11 PM
Every so often you'll need to configure a Python installation. It's a good idea to know where things are and how to point to them if you have to. In this excerpt from Learning Python by Mark Lutz you'...
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