Python Tutor
The core visualization tool
(pythontutor.com) can be helpful for
many people. The shared environments seem like a cool idea, also, but
I don't have any specific comments on the other tools.
While this looks very cool, I'm not a …
Here are some tricks to working with log file extracts. We're looking at some Enterprise Splunk extracts. We can fiddle around with Splunk, trying to explore the data. Or we can get a simple extract and fiddle around with the data in Python.
Running different experiments in Python seems to …
more ...See Audio Synth.
At first, I imagined the problem was going to be PyAudio. This package has a bunch of installers. But the installers don't recognize Python 3.4, so none of them work for me. The common fallback plan is to install from source, but, I couldn't find the …
more ...Why write Python in Visual Studio?
That what I want to know, too.
IntelliSense? ActiveState Komodo does this. And it does it very well considering the potential complexity of trying to determine what identifiers are possibly valid in a dynamic language.
Debugger? No thanks. I haven't used it yet. [I …
more ...Mocking is essential to unit testing.
However.
It's also annoyingly difficult to get right.
If we aren't 100% perfectly clear on what we're mocking, we will merely canonize any dumb assumptions into mock objects that don't really work. They work in the sense that they don't crash, but they don't …
more ...Step 1. Go to amazon.com and look for one (or more) of my Python books.
Step 2. Have you read it?
That's all. Consider doing this for other authors, also.
Social media is its own weird economy. The currency seems to …
more ...Folks who don't use Python regularly -- the folks in TechOps, for example -- are acutely aware that the Python 3 language is "different," and the upgrade should be done carefully. They've done their homework, but, they're not experts in everything.
They feel the need to introduce Python 3 slowly and cautiously …
more ...Get Packt's Python Essentials. I think it covers a large number of important topics. Central to this is Python 3.4. The book covers Python 3 with few -- if any -- backward glances. If it makes any mention of Python 2, the reference is strictly derogatory. There isn't even a mention …
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