One of the useful features of my Flask-SocketIO extension is the test client, which allows you to write Socket.IO unit tests. A long time limitation of the test client was that it did not see cookies…

:closed_lock_with_key: multi factor authentication system (2FA, MFA, OTP, FIDO Server) - privacyidea/privacyidea

One of the most efficient ways to collect the data as a data scientist is with the help of <em>web scraping.</em>

Hi Everyone,I have started creating Python learning video Series for Network Administrators to share my knowledge on python from network context...

This PEP proposes adding merge (|) and update (|=) operators to the built-in dict class.

In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn how to refactor your Python application to be simpler and more maintainable and have fewer bugs. You'll cover code metrics, refactoring tools, and common anti-patterns.

I have used Elasticsearch in a couple of my projects recently and I really love it. Its an excellent backend to build search engines or…

A redis clone in Python 3 to disprove some falsehoods about performance. - boramalper/pydis

News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Feb 26th, 2019

EditorConfig is a file format and collection of text editor plugins for maintaining consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs.

In this article on face detection with Python, you'll learn about a historically important algorithm for object detection that can be successfully applied to finding the location of a human face within an image.

<p>The third post of the series where we will be writing our own Python framework just like Flask and Django.</p>

Python function always have to return something, right? Well, its complicated...

We are pleased to announce that the February 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual…

In this installment of our cheat sheet series, we’re going to cover the best practices for Python security.

What is it?
Bleach is a Python library for sanitizing
and linkifying text from untrusted sources for safe usage in HTML.


I'm stepping down
In October 2015, I had a conversation with James Socol that

A couple weeks ago I ran [a poll on Twitter](https://twitter.com/ubernostrum/status/1096609885213491201) asking people whether they'd ever used, or considered using, the …

Let’s say that you have a Python string, and want to grab a substring from it. The best way to do so is with a “slice”: >>> s = 'abcdefghij'>>> print(s[3:8])defgh In the above code, we’ve defined a string. We’ve then asked for the string to be returned, starting…

With the uptake of Python 3 (and the imminent end of life for
Python 2.7), there is a question of
which version of Python a user should get when they type "python"
at the
command line or have it as part of a shebang
("#!") line in a script. Back in 2011…

An article about me and my involvement in the Python community (mainly Django) as a Free Software developer, GNU/Linux user and tech conference speaker.