Python for Scientists and Engineers is now free to read online. The table of contents is below, but please read this important info before. Python for Scientists and Engineers was the first book I … (more…)

Bruno Oliveira is a core developer for pytest, the Python testing library. In this interview, we cover migrating a large codebase from C++ to Python, how to get started with pytest, and his love of Dark Souls. (more…)

On behalf of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) Community, we are happy to announce the release of ITK 4.13.0! Download ITK Here are a few selected highlights for this release:… (more…)

I'd like to announce an new Python module to make working with Amazon S3 files a whole lot easier. The S3FS class in fs-s3fs wraps an Amazon S3 bucket in a PyFilesystem interface. There was an S3FS class built in to the first version of PyFilesystem, but ... (more…)

This quick tutorial will guide on how to change data from one type to another in python. Variables in python have data types just as many other languages. There may be times when you will want to specify or change the data type of a particular variable. (more…)