Dallas-based Texas Instruments’ latest generation of calculators is getting a modern-day update with the addition of programming language Python. The goal... (more…)

My first look at Python was an accident, and I didn't much like what I saw at the time. It was early 1997, and Mark Lutz's book Programming Python from O'Reilly & Associates had recently come out. (more…)

If you want your program to use less memory, you will need to measure memory usage. You’ll want to measure the current usage, and then you’ll need to ensure it’s using less memory once you make some improvements. It turns out, however, that measuring memo... (more…)

The last couple of posts have been about 49travel and the way I built it. This week I am going to be talking about decorators for a bit. It seems very disconnected from the last posts, but I started reflecting on this while writing some Python for 49trav... (more…)

In the first part of this article series, PDF reports in Python web applications — Part 1: Server side report generation, I explained the… (more…)