As a break from usual, I thought I would review Zed Shaw’s Learn Python the Hard Way. I’ve had several beginners to programming ask me what they should use to learn and Shaw’s book frequently comes up. I’ve looked over his materials before when they were ... (more…)

PyLucene is a Python extension for accessing Java LuceneTM. Its goal is to allow you to use Lucene's text indexing and searching capabilities from Python. It is API compatible with the latest version of Java Lucene, version 6.5.0 as of April 6th, 2017. (more…)

The first time I used Logo, it felt like magic. I could type a short sequence of simple commands, and draw beautifully complex shapes on the screen. In this tutorial, I will show you how to parse and interpret a Logo-like language in just 70 lines of code... (more…)

Hi! I'm Will and this is where I write about software, technology, and startup stuff. You can find more from me @lyonwj and on tumblr. (more…)

"Speaker: Miguel Grinberg With the introduction of the asyncio package in Python 3.4, you can hear lots of people talking about asynchronous programming, mos... (more…)