Python Magazine

by Roman Suzi, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Andrea Botero

Using Python proved to be the right choice for this exploratory project that was developed iteratively, drawing on continuous input and feedback from a variety of stakeholders, including citizens and city planners.

by Michael G. Noll

There is so much going on in the Internet today that it's hard to keep track of it all. Whether you need to stay up to date with job-related information, the current state of research, or the latest developments in the Open Source world, finding relevant information quickly on the Internet is difficult. So-called "social" services such as del.icio.us or Digg.com try to support users by allowing them to collaboratively share their knowledge about interesting web sites. In this article, we will design and implement a simple, yet powerful link recommender whose analysis is based solely on del.icio.us social bookmarks information.

by Dr. Judah B. De Paula

The Traits package provides explicit typing, reactive programming, and fast user interface development, which enable rapid prototyping of applications that scale up to a full-featured production implementation.

by JC Cruz

JC Cruz introduces the basic concepts behind a document-centric application, including how they differ from other types of applications and the Cocoa classes needed to create them. The sample project is a text editor based on an Xcode project template.

by Mark Mruss

Reading and writing data to and from files is a necessary task for most programmers. This article will show you how to perform file I/O using the simple built-in routines that Python provides. After reading this article you should be comfortable working with files by reading and writing data.

by Brandon Craig Rhodes

It all started so innocently: Encapsulated Postscript files produced on different systems use different line endings, so Python should be able to process them all using its magical "universal newline" support, right? Right?

by Grig Gheorghiu

Mock testing is a controversial topic in the area of unit testing. Some people swear by it, others swear at it. As always, the right response is somewhere in the middle.

by Steve Holden

Steve takes a look at Python information sources.