Everyone who uses a computer on a regular basis knows the importance of backups. Duplicity is one of the most widely used backup technologies, and it's written in Python! This week Kenneth Loafman shares how Duplicity got started, how it works, and why yo... (more…)

Reducing the time it takes for peer review by 80 percent wouldn't affect funding levels... (more…)

Beginners guide to scraping Amazon using Python Scrapy. Detailed this data scraping tutorial with code and clear explanations. (more…)

Have you ever thought about how the for loop is implemented in Python? I always thought it would iterate over all elements in the sequence, like it does, but that first it would query the sequence to know its length and then request that many elements. Tu... (more…)

This tutorial works through a step-by-step example of how to implement the Levenshtein distance in Python for word autocorrection and autocompletion. (more…)