https://dzone.com/articles/learn-python-overtakes-learn-java I've seen companies making sincere enterprise-wide commitments to doing all data analysis in Python. There's no reason for quants and analysts to struggle with Java. I field one or two questions a week from folks pushing the in-house envelope on data acquisition. I also field …

It appears that there are people who don't recognize SQL as a tradeoff.

Here's a complex two-part question that can only come from folks who firmly believe in the magic of SQL.

The sentence that got my attention was "Python has basically made SQL obsolete as a language for data …

I guess it's like a movie franchise or a series of novels. The first one was popular. So, write a second story with similar characters. You can check find part I here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N2RWMMW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1 and here: https://www.packtpub …

Here's an interesting idea: http://www.xmind.net/m/WvfC/ This is associated with the following question: "I've had a hard time finding the Big Picture re: Python, and it makes it difficult ... to proceed and prioritize my efforts without one."

An interesting question: what is the overview or strategy …

Many years ago ('07?) I went to my first PyCon. My situation changed and I didn't get to another PyCon until last year.

The story is a kind of major dumbosity. In '07 I could expense the trip as education. In '08, I'd lost that feature of my employment. After …

I have to be clear that I am obsessed with the str.format() family of functions. I've happily left the string % operator behind. I recently re-discovered the vars() function.

My current go-to technique for providing debugging information is this:

print( "note: local={local!r}, this={this!r}, that={that!r …

I'm starting to get chapters back from the technical reviewers. This is an important part of the writing process: correcting my mistakes and clarifying things that confused the reviewers.

Packt has had a uniformly excellent cadre of technical reviewers. At this point, I've worked with something like a dozen people …

This just in...

Here's a link to the actual Python Week page, with all the deals there for the week: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/pythonweek

They also have a week of free Python books too, which change daily: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning/

Feel free to …