An Introduction to Google Calendars

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

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Note: This article was first published the March 2008 issue of Python Magazine
Mark Mruss
Over the past few years Google has expanded it’s services beyond those of a normal search engine. One of those new services is the Google Calendar. This article will provide an introduction to working with the Google Calendar using Python.
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Introducing Docstrings

Friday, January 8th, 2010

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By: Mark Mruss
Note: This article was first published the February 2008 issue of Python Magazine
Of all the tasks assigned to programmers, commenting code and writing documentation are among the most disliked. This article introduces you to Python’s documentation strings. While they won’t make commenting your code any more enjoyable, they will provide a systematic [...]

Iterators, Iterables, and Generators! Oh, my!

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

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By: Mark Mruss
Note: This article was first published the January 2008 issue of Python Magazine
Iterators, iterables, and generators are features handled so wall by Python that people programming in other languages cannot help but drool over. Fortunately for us, creating iterators, iterables and generators is a relatively simple task. This article introduces the concepts of [...]