At Atlassian, my fellow engineers and I often find ourselves creating tools that rapidly become crucial to our own workflows. Because of this, the practice of writing tests to ensure consistent behavior is almost second nature for us. We’re aware that thi... (more…)

We are exited to announce a new release of the Data Retriever, our software for making it quick and easy to get clean, ready to analyze, data. The Data Retriever, automates the downloading, cleanin… (more…)

What is a Circular Dependency? A circular dependency occurs when two or more modules depend on each other. This is due to the fact that each module is defined in terms of the other (See Figure 1). For example: functionA(): functionB() And functionB(... (more…)

A difficult decision for any Python team is whether to move from Python 2 and into Python 3. Although this is not a new decision for Python development teams, 2017 brings with it several important differences that make this decision crucial for proper for... (more…)

Managing Python Virtual Environments with virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper... (more…)