I've recently experienced a rash of events where maybe once a week on average mouse clicks have simply stopped working. The cursor track...

This is an edited live blog of a Python London presentation by Bernat Gabor of Bloomberg. Sorry it's taken so long to prepare. A great t...

Python programmers talk about namespaces a lot. The Zen of Python* ends with Namespaces are one honking great idea—let’s do more of those!...

This is a tip I first picked up about thirty years ago (my God!) when I worked at Sun Microsystems and used the C shell fairly extensively. ...

Wondering how best to convey the bigness of infinity, I came upon the idea of using a musical exposition. Please forgive the inadequate natu...

I've been pondering about why sometimes progress seems hard to make when I am learning a new piece of technology, which other people app...

Another #LABHR post. I first met Carl when he came to a training session for new PyCon speakers. He was very nervous, and concerned that ...

As a personal #LABHR contribution (having already thanked recipients of PSF awards) I should like to bring to your attention a person by th...

Leslie Hawthorn, Elastic Search’s enthusiastic communities manager, has been involved with open source for quite a while, and has come up wi...

Following up my recent short video on installing Anaconda I now introduce miniconda , which is a distribution that contains only Python and...

I am often asked what is the easiest way to build Python environments. For development purposes it's most convenient to have a "bat...

The meeting started with one of the meeting's organizers, Tammy Lee, welcoming us to Dice Cabana. Alan Besner then took the MC slot to i...

[EDIT: Updates talk with additional background and slide links] Tonight I'm attending the PyData London Meetup group for the first tim...

After a day at The Church House  I am happy to say that the Intermediate Python repository  is in much better shape to move forwards. Work...

I'd like to thank Mike Driscoll for running his Python Dev of the Week  series of blog posts. I was fortunate enough to be featured a w...

Regular readers (both?) know that I live in the USA but hail from the UK, where I still return regularly to stay in touch with family and fr...

I've finally realized just what, exactly, so gets up my nose when I see organizations advertising for “rock star” programmers. To unders...

Readers should remember that I no longer have any official standing in the Foundation other than my long-standing membership, but this post ...

Edit: This issue was reported ( http://bugs.python.org/issue21904 ) and closed as "not a bug" This blog was written as ...