Students in my Python classes occasionally get the following error message: TypeError: object() takes no parameters This error message is technically true, as I’ll explain in a moment. But it’s surprising and confusing for people who are new to Python, be... (more…)

There is already a fair number of book about numpy (see Bibliography) and a legitimate question is to wonder if another book is really necessary. As you may have guessed by reading these lines, my personal answer is yes, mostly because I think there's roo...

Python command line tools for managing Pinboard bookmarks - patrickleweryharris/pintools... (more…)

A hand-wired keyboard powered by Python. Contribute to makerdiary/python-keyboard development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

For you Python users who have been unwilling (or unable) to upgrade to version 3, there’s yet another reason to get motivated: python.org has released Python 2.7.18, the absolute last official release for Python 2.  While it doesn’t add much in terms of f... (more…)