N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python. Contribute to pydata/xarray development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

The   Packaging Working Group   of the   Python Software Foundation   is launching an all-new sponsorship program to sustain and improve Py... (more…)

Due to uncertainty over the future of the Python 2 interpreter in future Linux distributions, I've been looking at some of our Python 2 code, especially the larger programs. This caused me to express some views over on Twitter, which came out long enough ... (more…)

Python's maya package is a great library for standardizing dates of many different formats. This post will cover several examples. (more…)

Python provides great built-in types like dict, list, tuple and set; there are also array, collections, heapq modules in the standard library; this article is an overview of external lesser known packages with fast C/C++ based data structures usable from ... (more…)