There have been many Python libraries developed for interactive with the Hadoop File System, HDFS, via its WebHDFS gateway as well as its native Protocol Buffers-based RPC interface. I'll give you an overview of what's out there and show some engineering ...

Self-educators hit roadblocks learning Python when tutorials over-rely on external Python modules. Read for a prescription to prevent burnout and confusion. (more…)

Friendly tracebacks - Simplified Python tracebacks translatable into any language. (more…)

Ned Batchelder’s coverage.py is a foundation of the Python testing ecosystem. It is solid, well maintained, and does its job extremely well. I think literally every Python project that cares about testing should be using it. (more…)

On newly created Ubuntu 16.04 AWS instances, we started seeing that python3.6 -m pip no longer works after get-pip.py (version 19.3.1). get-pip puts pip in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip-20.2... (more…)