This notebook documents the partipant selection procedure for Python in Astronomy 2017. For privacy reasons, this notebook uses data that has been completely randomized within categories, thus no candidate is individually identifiable (and names and othe... (more…)

Is there a way to find out which Python method can raise which Exception or Error? I didn't find much about it in the official Python documentation. (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...

Behind the scenes of how the context managers and the "with" statement work in Python. (more…)

I try to not read HN/Reddit too much about Pyston, since while there are certainly some smart and reasonable people on there, there also seem to be quite a few people with axes to grind (*cough cough* Python 3).  But there are some recurring themes I noti... (more…)