I'd like to announce an new Python module to make working with Amazon S3 files a whole lot easier. The S3FS class in fs-s3fs wraps an Amazon S3 bucket in a PyFilesystem interface. There was an S3FS class built in to the first version of PyFilesystem, but ... (more…)

This article looks at how to use Python to interface with MongoDB along with an overview of SQL vs. NoSQL, PyMongo, and MongoEngine.

The title may have given away the article contents, but feel free to read on pretending you don’t know the ending. Background: I work for the Raspberry Pi Foundation and I do a lot of Python stuff on Raspberry Pi. I presented this project recently in a li... (more…)

In this post I will talk about some tools and ways in which you can profile the interpreter, when running a Python script. Just like in our previous post, the meaning of CPU profiling is the same, … (more…)

The fully open source Oracle Database Python driver cx_Oracle has found a new home and has its source code repository now hosted on Oracle's GitHub, reinforcing our commitment to bring more open source projects to the platform. You can find the repository... (more…)