#PYTHON

Posted on September 20, 2025 in python

Extending Mistune 3 to parse inline wikilinks. Read More

Posted on December 23, 2023 in python

Utilize SPARQL and Wikidata to efficiently query and retrieve data on mountain huts based on specified latitude and longitude coordinates. Read More

Posted on April 25, 2023 in python · conference

It's been now 10 years ago when Blue Yonder started the first sponsoring of a python conference at Europython Florence. Since then we have been either sponsoring and/or organizing at least one python event per year. Read More

Posted on December 16, 2022 in python · til · docker

Using a docker multistage to build turbodbc with pyarrow support Read More

Posted on December 4, 2022 in python · pydata · visualization · til

TIL how to use fontawesome markers with folium. Read More

Posted on December 1, 2022 in pydata · python · meetup

Forecasts crave a rating that reflects the forecast's quality in the context of what is possible in theory and what is reasonable to expect in practice. Read More

Posted on November 16, 2022 in python · sql · snowflake · pydata

Snowflake offers different ways to access and call python from within their compute infrastructure. This post will show how to access python in user defined functions, via stored procedures and in snowpark. Read More

Posted on January 10, 2021 in python · sql · mountain · sqlite

Conversion of the Himalayan database of the legendary Elizabeth Hawley from FoxPro to SQLite. Read More

Posted on September 27, 2020 in python · sql · pydata · azure

Using SQLAlchemy to create openrowset common table expressions for Azure Synapse SQL-on-Demand Read More

Posted on May 25, 2020 in python · parquet · pydata · pandas · azure

Inspired by Uwe Korns post on DuckDB this post shows how to use Azure Synapse SQL-on-Demand to query parquet files with T-SQL on a serverless cloud infrastructure. Read More

Posted on May 25, 2020 in python · sql · pydata · azure

Azure Synapse SQL-on-Demand offers a web client, the desktop version Azure Data studio and odbc access with turbodbc to query parquet files in the Azure Data Lake. Read More

Posted on February 1, 2020 in python · pydata · azure · parquet

Last summer Microsoft has rebranded the Azure Kusto Query engine as Azure Data Explorer. While it does not support fully elastic scaling, it at least allows to scale up and out a cluster via an API or the Azure portal to adapt to different workloads. It also offers parquet support out of the box which made me spend some time to look into it. Read More

Posted on January 19, 2020 in python · pydata · parquet · arrow · pandas

Apache Parquet is a columnar file format to work with gigabytes of data. Reading and writing parquet files is efficiently exposed to python with pyarrow. Additional statistics allow clients to use predicate pushdown to only read subsets of data to reduce I/O. Organizing data by column allows for better compression, as data is more homogeneous. Better compression also reduces the bandwidth required to read the input. Read More

Posted on January 11, 2020 in python · pydata

Microsoft has released a beta version of the python client azure-storage-file-datalake for the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 service with support for hierarchical namespaces. Read More

Posted on December 13, 2019 in python · meetup · conference

Python Meetup with two talks about python usage in a data science environment and the different stages of a python package in this environment. Read More

Posted on May 9, 2019 in python · talk

JDA ICON 2019 was all about technology, APIs, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning). Read More

Posted on November 12, 2018 in python · conference · talk

PyCon.DE 2018 is over. Second time in a row we organized it in ZKM Karlsruhe. Next year PyCon.DE will move to Berlin. Read More

Posted on August 18, 2018 in python · talk

Apache Parquet is an binary, efficient columnar data format that can be used for high performance data I/O in Pandas and Dask. Read More

Posted on July 26, 2018 in python · talk

Apache Parquet is an binary, efficient columnar data format that can be used for high performance data I/O in Pandas and Dask. Read More

Posted on February 16, 2018 in python · talk

Heroku distilled their principles to build modern cloud applications. These principles have influenced many of our design decisions at Blue Yonder to build a data science platform. Read More

Posted on October 29, 2017 in python · conference · talk

Some notes on how to organize a conference like PyCon.DE Read More

Posted on October 22, 2017 in python · conference · talk

The venue setup @zkmkarlsruhe for #PyCon.DE 2017 and PyData Karlsruhe is done. We are ready for liftoff tomorrow. Read More

Posted on July 11, 2017 in python · talk

Using Infrastructure-as-Code principles with configuration through machine processable definition files in combination with the adoption of cloud computing provides faster feedback cycles in development/testing and less risk in deployment to production. Read More

Posted on June 16, 2017 in python

Early bird tickets for PyCon.DE are now on sale, each ticket includes a 3‑day conference pass, access to 40–60 talks, tutorials and hands‑on sessions. Read More

Posted on June 9, 2017 in python

PyCon.DE 2017 in Karlsruhe (25–27 October 2017) has opened its Call for Proposals and welcomes submissions on all Python topics — from beginner to advanced programming, applications and frameworks, adoption case studies, and the PyData track. Read More

Posted on May 18, 2017 in python · talk

This talk will give an overview on how to deploy web services on the Azure Cloud with different tools like Azure Resource Manager Templates, the Azure SDK for Python and the Azure module for Ansible and present best practices learned while moving a company into the Azure Cloud. Read More

Posted on April 5, 2017 in python · conference · talk

The next PyCon.DE will be from 25-27th October 2017 at the ZKM - center for art and media in Karlsruhe/Germany. Read More

Posted on October 8, 2015 in python · pydata · spark

Cloudera Kudu is a distributed storage engine for fast data analytics. The python api is in alpha stage but already usable. Read More

Posted on September 8, 2015 in python

PyScaffold helps you to easily setup a new Python project. Read More

Posted on August 4, 2015 in python · pydata · spark · talk

Apache Spark is a computational engine for large-scale data processing. PySpark exposes the Spark programming model to Python. It defines an API for Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs) and the DataFrame API. Read More

Posted on July 10, 2015 in python · pydata · spark · talk

This Talk from PyData 2015 Berlin gives an overview of the PySpark Data Frame API. Read More

Posted on March 9, 2015 in python

cee_syslog_handler is an extension to the python syslog logging handler with support for structured json messages. Read More

Posted on January 31, 2015 in python · exasol

sqlalchemy_exasol 0.9.1 introduces support for Exasol's data distribution across cluster nodes using the DISTRIBUTE BY statement. Read More

Posted on January 26, 2015 in python · exasol

SQLAlchemy dialect for the EXASOL database. Read More

Posted on July 28, 2014 in python · elasticsearch · talk

When your application grows beyond one machine you need a central space to log, monitor and analyze what is going on. Logstash and elasticsearch store your logs in a structured way. Kibana is a web fronted to search and aggregate your logs. Read More

Posted on August 28, 2013 in python

There is a resurgence of native-compiled programming languages going on. Some of this work is in response to Python; we're now part of The Establishment against which newcomers are measured. Greg Ward gives an overview of Go, a recent native-compiled language, and how it relates to Python. Read More

Posted on June 2, 2013 in python · ruby

In Recovering from Enterprise Jamis Buck argues that pulling patterns straight from one language (for example Java) into another (for example Ruby) is a mistake. You should instead learn and apply the concrete idioms of the language you are using. Read More

Posted on March 2, 2013 in python · nosql

Amir Salihefendic talks about Redis, scaling plurk.com and some python libraries on top of redis like bitmapist. Read More

Posted on August 7, 2012 in python

Python example to access the twitter API on your behalf, without going through three legged autorization. Read More

Posted on June 10, 2012 in python

Argscript is a small utility that ports werkzeug.script to argparse and automatically builds a command-line interface from your Python functions Read More

Posted on June 3, 2012 in python · redis · nosql

How to build a simple multi-producer, multi-consumer Queue backed by Redis lists with an interface similar to the Python standard library queue Read More

Posted on May 28, 2012 in python

GitHub-style fenced code blocks let you wrap code in triple backticks and supports a language identifier for syntax highlighting with tools like highlight.js. Read More

Posted on August 6, 2011 in python · nosql

This post shows how to wrap the py-leveldb API into a Python dict-like interface using UserDict.DictMixin. Read More

Posted on June 6, 2011 in python

Robert Smallshire released asq 1.0, a LINQ-inspired API for Python that lets you build chainable queries over any Python iterable. Read More

Posted on January 6, 2011 in python

This post shows a simple Python solution: use httplib2 and ClientLogin to request a Google auth token, then call the likes Atom feed with an Authorization header to dump your liked items. The example code is minimal and can be adapted to fetch other private feeds such as private folders.' Read More

Posted on November 26, 2010 in python

PyCharm supports live templates—snippets that expand a short word into a code fragment with editable fields, similar to TextMate or snipmate—so you can speed up repetitive coding. Read More

Posted on October 14, 2010 in python

Docco is a tiny, ~100-line literate-programming-style documentation generator that renders prose on the left and implementation code on the right. Read More

Posted on August 9, 2010 in python

The Python "extrinsic" Visitor pattern replaces accept() with runtime introspection to dispatch to visit_* methods, but a common implementation fails to respect class inheritance and forces you to add visit methods for every subclass. Read More

Posted on July 22, 2010 in python

Python descriptors let you customize attribute access by implementing methods like __get__, and the Bind descriptor shown here uses __get__ to run XPath queries on an lxml elements. Read More

Posted on July 10, 2010 in python

Small Python Retry decorator that reruns a function up to a given number of tries when specified exceptions occur, accepts an optional exceptions tuple (defaults to Exception) and a delay between attempts. Read More

Posted on June 8, 2010 in python · sqlite

The sqlite3 module provides sqlite.Row for optimized mapping access by column name, but you can achieve equivalent, lightweight behavior using collections.namedtuple. Read More

Posted on June 1, 2010 in python · css

flask-lesscss is a small Flask extension that watches your app’s static media directory and automatically re-renders .less files into .css. Read More

Posted on February 18, 2010 in python · google

python-socialgraph 0.2.3 has been released — grab the source from GitHub or the release package on PyPI. The library is a simple Python wrapper around the Google Social Graph API, making it easy to query and parse public connections between people and sites on the web for use in Python applications. Read More