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Made With Mu: Announcing Mu-moot 2.0

Link: https://madewith.mu/mu/moot/2018/09/27/mu-moot-2.html

Sign up for free
for the second ever Mu-moot! Thursday October 18th at 6pm in the offices
of Kano at 3 Finsbury Ave, London, EC2M 2PA.
It’s a friendly and supportive meeting for learners, teachers and
NumFOCUS: Successful Sustainer Weeks Fundraiser for Open Source Scientific Computing Software

Link: https://numfocus.org/blog/successful-sustainer-weeks-fundraiser-for-open-source-scientific-computing-software

The post Successful Sustainer Weeks Fundraiser for Open Source Scientific Computing Software appeared first on NumFOCUS.
Kay Hayen: Nuitka Release 0.6.0

Link: http://nuitka.net/posts/nuitka-release-060.html

This is to inform you about the new stable release of Nuitka. It is the extremely compatible Python compiler. Please see the page "What is Nuitka?" for an overview.
This release adds massive improveme
NumFOCUS: Inaugural NumFOCUS Awards and New Contributor Recognition

Link: https://numfocus.org/blog/inaugural-numfocus-awards-and-new-contributor-recognition

The post Inaugural NumFOCUS Awards and New Contributor Recognition appeared first on NumFOCUS.
Gocept Weblog: Saltlabs Sprint: last minute information

Link: https://blog.gocept.com/2018/09/28/saltlabs-sprint-last-minute-information/

Earl Zope is now nearly settled down in Python 3 wonderland. On the Zope and Plone sprint from Monday, 1st until Friday, 5th of October 2018 in Halle (Saale), Germany we will work towards the final Zo
Test and Code: 47: Automation Panda - Andy Knight

Link: https://testandcode.com/47

Interview with Andy Knight, the Automation Panda.

Selenium & WebDriver
Headless Chrome
Gherkin
BDD
Given When Then
pytest-bdd
PyCharm
Writing Good Gherkin
Overhead of Gherkin and if it's worth it
Wh
Robin Wilson: PyCon UK 2018: My talk on xarray

Link: http://blog.rtwilson.com/pycon-uk-2018-my-talk-on-xarray/

Last week I attended PyCon UK 2018 in Cardiff, and had a great time. I’m going to write a few posts about this conference – and this first one is focused on my talk.
I spoke in the ‘PyData’ track, wit
Djangostars: What is Docker and How to Use it With Python (Tutorial)

Link: https://djangostars.com/blog/what-is-docker-and-how-to-use-it-with-python/

This is an introductory tutorial on Docker containers. By the end of this article, you will know how to use Docker on your local machine. Along with Python, we are going to run Nginx and Redis contain
Davy Wybiral: Building a Programmable Laser Turret

Link: http://davywybiral.blogspot.com/2018/09/building-programmable-laser-turret.html

Using only a couple of servos, a laser module, some hot glue, and a microcontroller of your choice, you can easily build your own laser turret to annoy your cat.
Catalin George Festila: Python 2.7 : Python geocoding without key.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2018/09/python-27-python-geocoding-without-key.html

Today I will come with a simple example about geocoding.I used json and requests python modules and python version 2.7.About geocoding I use this service provide by datasciencetoolkit.You can use this
EuroPython Society: EuroPython 2019: RFP for Venues

Link: https://www.europython-society.org/post/178541594370

We are happy to announce that we have started the RFP for venues to host the EuroPython 2019 conference.We have sent out the details to almost 40 venues.Unlike last year, we also want to give the chan
EuroPython: EuroPython 2019: RFP for Venues

Link: https://blog.europython.eu/post/178541611202

europythonsociety:
We are happy to announce that we have started the RFP for venues to host the EuroPython 2019 conference.
We have sent out the details to almost 40 venues.
Unlike last year, we also
Python Celery - Weekly Celery Tutorials and How-tos: Custom Celery task states

Link: https://www.distributedpython.com/2018/09/28/celery-task-states/

Celery tasks always have a state. If a task finished executing successfully, its state is SUCCESS.
If a task execution resulted in an exception, its state is FAILURE. Celery knows
six built-in states:
pgcli: Release v2.0.0

Link: http://pgcli.com/v2.0.0.html

Pgcli is a command line interface for Postgres database that does
auto-completion and syntax highlighting. You can install this version using:

$ pip install -U pgcli

This pgcli release has only one
REPL|REBL: Dictionary Views & Set Operations — Working with dictionary view objects

Link: https://www.pymadethis.com/article/python-dictionary-sets/

The keys, values and items from a dictionary can be accessed using the .keys(), .values() and .items() methods. These methods return view objects which provide a view on the source dictionary.
The vie
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cxlv) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2018/09/cxlv-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2018-09-30 08:57:03 GMTMultiple assignments in python - [22/2]Why is th
Nikola: Nikola v8.0.1 is out!

Link: https://getnikola.com/blog/nikola-v801-is-out.html

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate
availability of Nikola v8.0.1. Some bugs were fixed; more importantly,
we pinned down the Markdown package version due to incompati
Evennia: Evennia 0.8 released

Link: http://evennia.blogspot.com/2018/09/evennia-08-released.html

After about a year of work and almost 540 commits from close to 20 contributors, Evennia 0.8 is out! Evennia is a Python game server for creating text-based multiplayer games (MUDs, Mushes, etc) using