The tutorial helps you get started/evaluate the web2py python framework. The various features of web2py that are covered are DAL, user authentication, CRUD operations. Once the tutorial is over you will be very comfortable with the framework.

Pykka aims to provide easy to use concurrency abstractions for Python by using the actor model.

The following function compute the prime factors (PFs) of an integer.

In this video tutorial from the 2012 PyData Workshop, John Hunter, author of matplotlib is going to give you some advanced insight into the plotting library.

Too much of programming is intimately tied up with the tools to support the development of the software.

Bruce Eckel emphasizes using different languages within a project, each one for the task it is better fitted for, and giving several such examples: Python+Scala, Go+Python, Python+CoffeeScript.

Over the last year there's a been a whole new crop of specialized hosting platforms for Django applications. In this panel, we speak to a number of the people behind these new platforms to discuss what benefits they offer, what challenges they face, and what the Django project/community can do to encourage their growth.

Ever wished the wrist-handiness of shell scripts be put into a real programming language? Say hello to Plumbum Shell Combinators.

Python - 5 years of bad ideas.

There are `python-matplotlib` and `python-numpy` packages in the Debian/Ubuntu repos. However, if you want to run in a virtualenv (with no-site-packages), and pip install these packages from PyPI, you need some system dependencies installed first to build with:

This session will cover the challenges of creating a production application performance monitoring system for Python. It includes an overview of the architecture of the system, as well as how it hooks into Django and captures details about web transactions, database transactions, memcache requests, exceptions and much more.

This document shows how Python fits into the web. It presents some ways to integrate Python with a web server, and general practices useful for developing web sites.