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Idiomatic Python: comprehensions

March 14, 2016 Mar 14, 2016 03/14/16
Brett Cannon
We're lucky to have a few people on our team who have been programming in Python for quite a while (I myself have been using the language now for over 15 years). Over the course of time we have picked up various idioms for programming in Python that may not be obvious or widely known for various reasons. To help share some of this knowledge we...

PyCaribbean 2016

February 29, 2016 Feb 29, 2016 02/29/16
Steve Dower
Last week I attended the first ever PyCaribbean conference, organised by the local community and held in Santo Domingo, the capital city of the Dominican Republic. Conferences like PyCaribbean are an opportunity for Python developers and enthusiasts to come together and meet, network, discuss, and generally enjoy being part of a global ...

Microsoft and Project Jupyter

February 23, 2016 Feb 23, 2016 02/23/16
Christopher Wilcox
(image) Jupyter, formerly IPython, is more than just an execution environment for  Python, R, and many other languages. With code, markdown, inline graphics, and more features, it provides a convenient, browser-based canvas for prototyping, collaborating, and sharing ideas. This environment has been embraced by the community and for good...

Talking with Python: Fabrikam Pizza Shack

February 15, 2016 Feb 15, 2016 02/15/16
Steve Dower
Today, we're going to start the next multi-million-dollar pizza chain. You might think that the first thing we need to make pizza is a pizza oven and the ability to make toast without burning it, but who ever became a millionaire by following the "conventional" approach? Instead, we're going to start with the ordering system. The days when ...

Welcome to the Python Engineering blog

February 12, 2016 Feb 12, 2016 02/12/16
Steve Dower
Welcome! We here on the Python team at Microsoft are starting a blog. And since this is the first post, we wanted to give a bit of an introduction of who we are, what we do, and what this blog is for. Microsoft has a Python team? Yes, we do! We are part of the Data Group in Azure, the same group that brings you SQL Server, Azure ML Studio ...