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2016 - Python

Publish to Azure in Visual Studio 2017

December 12, 2016 Dec 12, 2016 12/12/16
Steve Dower
This week, those of you using Visual Studio 2017 RC will be getting an update notification. This is a refresh of RC, with a whole lot of improvements and fixes (based on your feedback), and a selection of features that didn't quite make the initial RC release. For Python support, we've largely focused on bugfixes. There were 34 bugs resolved ...

A template for using Python on Azure Web Apps

November 14, 2016 Nov 14, 2016 11/14/16
Brett Cannon
Back in August we had a blog post on using newer versions of Python on Azure App Service. In that post we outlined why we were working on this alternative approach to using Python on Azure App Service and provided basic templates of key files you needed to make the approach work. While that approach still works, we realized there were some ...

Python in Visual Studio “15” Preview 5

October 10, 2016 Oct 10, 2016 10/10/16
Steve Dower
Last week, Visual Studio "15" Preview 5 was made available for download. This release has a number of exciting changes and improvements for Python developers that we are going to be covering over the next few weeks. Today's post will look at the new install experience, covering the improvements and the new options to be aware of. When you ...

Microsoft’s participation in the 2016 Python core sprint

September 27, 2016 Sep 27, 2016 09/27/16
Brett Cannon
From September 5th to the 9th a group of Python core developers gathered for a sprint hosted at Instagram and sponsored by Instagram, Microsoft, and the Python Software Foundation. The goal was to spend a week working towards the Python 3.6.0b1 release, just in time for the Python 3.6 feature freeze on Monday, September 12, 2016. The ...

Upgrading Python on Azure App Service

August 4, 2016 Aug 4, 2016 08/4/16
Steve Dower
App Service is Microsoft Azure's platform-as-a-service offering for web apps, whether they are sites accessed through a browser, REST APIs used by your own clients, or event-triggered processing. Many of you are already using Python to implement your apps on App Service (and rightly so!). When we first enabled Python on App Service we wanted ...

Idiomatic Python: EAFP versus LBYL

June 29, 2016 Jun 29, 2016 06/29/16
Brett Cannon
One idiomatic practice in Python that often surprises people coming from programming languages where exceptions are considered, well, exceptional, is EAFP: "it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission". Quickly, EAFP means that you should just do what you expect to work and if an exception might be thrown from the operation then catch ...

Python and Django on Nano Server

June 20, 2016 Jun 20, 2016 06/20/16
Steve Dower
This post is contributed by Refaat Issa from the Nano Server team, and was originally posted on their blog. Nano Server has also blogged about their support for MySQL and Node.js. One of Nano Server’s core scenarios is to serve as a lightweight OS for born-in-the-cloud applications running in a VM or a container. Nano Server already ...

Python lambda expressions unleashed

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16
CarlKadie
Carl Kadie, Ph.D., is a research developer in Microsoft Research/TnR working on Genomics. (image) Lambda expressions provide a way to pass functionality into a function. Sadly, Python puts two annoying restrictions on lambda expressions. First, lambdas can only contain an expression, not statements. Second, lambdas can't be ...

Microsoft at PyCon US 2016

May 25, 2016 May 25, 2016 05/25/16
Steve Dower
This coming weekend is the start of PyCon US 2016 in Portland, USA. And as usual, we've sponsored the conference and will be bringing some of our engineering team. Here's where you'll be able to find us: Booth For many people, the main attraction is the Expo Hall. Here most of the sponsoring organizations will have booths set up to tell you ...