Nornir is an automation framework written in python to be used with python. Most automation frameworks hide the language they are written in by using some cumbersome pseudo-language which usually is almost Turing complete, but lacks tooling to debug and t... (more…)

This post was originally published on this blogSpyder is the best IDE that I have tested so far for doing data analysis, but also for plain programming. In this post I will start to briefly describe the IDE. Following the description of this top IDE the t...

For the first time since the start of the TIOBE index nearly 20 years ago, Java and C don't make up the top 2 positions any more. C is still number one, but it is Python that claims the second position now. Some say that Python's recent... (more…)

Our on-the-ground reporter gauges developer reactions to the Python Steering Council's latest decision regarding pattern matching. (more…)

Recently I ran across a Python program we're interested in, and discovered that it required prometheus-client. Normally this would mean creating a virtual environment and installing the module into it, possibly along with the program (although you don't h... (more…)