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Michał Bultrowicz: A simple self-modifying function in Python

Link: https://bultrowicz.com/self-modifying-python-function/

Replacing its own definition is a fun/horrifying thing that a Python function can do:
Evennia: Evennia in Hacktoberfest 2018

Link: http://evennia.blogspot.com/2018/10/evennia-in-hacktoberfest-2018.html

Like last year, Evennia, the Python MUD creation system, takes part in Hacktoberfest, a yearly event run by Digitalocean in collaboration with GitHub.The premise is simple: Sign up at their website an
Python Software Foundation: Join the 2018 Python Developers Survey: Share and learn about the community

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/Le3XxaNz6KI/join-2018-python-developers-survey.html

2018 is drawing to a close and we are excited to start the official Python Developers Survey for 2018!

In 2017, Python Software Foundation together with JetBrains conducted an official Python Develop
John Cook: Physical constants in Python

Link: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/10/04/physical-constants-in-python/

You can find a large collection of physical constants in scipy.constants. The most frequently used constants are available directly, and hundreds more are in a dictionary physical_constants.
The fine
Continuum Analytics Blog: Preparing Your Organization for Implementing an AI Platform

Link: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/company-blog/preparing-your-organization-for-implementing-an-ai-platform/

By Victor Ghadban You already know that implementing an enterprise-ready AI enablement platform is key to executing your organization’s AI and machine learning initiatives. But can software so complex
NumFOCUS: Updates to the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct

Link: https://numfocus.org/blog/updates-to-the-numfocus-code-of-conduct

The post Updates to the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct appeared first on NumFOCUS.
Yasoob Khalid: Privacy & Why it Matters

Link: https://pythontips.com/2018/10/04/privacy-why-it-matters/

Long post about privacy. Doesn’t relate to Python at all. Do read if you care and want to learn more about how your privacy is being violated.
Last couple of weeks have totally changed my whole viewp
Wallaroo Labs: Wallaroo goes full Apache 2.0

Link: https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2018/10/wallaroo-goes-full-apache-2.0/

I’m writing today to announce that with the release of Wallaroo 0.5.3, we have switched our licensing over to a pure open source model.
What does all this mean for you? Well, if you are a current Wall
Codementor: Journey from Non-Technical background to an expert in Data Science

Link: https://www.codementor.io/vaibhavsingh587/journey-from-non-technical-background-to-an-expert-in-data-science-o111qfdwz

Journey from Non-Technical background to an expert in Data Science
Continuum Analytics Blog: Intake: Parsing Data from Filenames and Paths

Link: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/intake-parsing-data-from-filenames-and-paths/

By Julia Signell Motivation Do you have data in collections of files, where information is encoded both in the contents and the file/directory names? Perhaps something like '{year}/{month}/{day}/{site
PyBites: Persistent Virtualenv Environment Variables with python-dotenv

Link: https://pybit.es/persistent-environment-variables.html

I can't count the amount of times I've followed a tutorial or guide that's said something along the lines of "Store your API Keys in environment variables".
It's easy enough to do with os.getenv but t
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cxlvi) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2018/10/cxlvi-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2018-10-06 21:03:54 GMTSpeed comparison. numpy vs python standard - [9/
PyBites: PyBites Twitter Digest - Issue 31, 2018

Link: https://pybit.es/twitter_digest_201831.html

Read about how Dropbox migrated to Python 3!
Submitted by @dgjustice
Read about the Dropbox Client Python 3 migration! https://t.co/dXIJvxn9lL— Guido van Rossum (@gvanrossum) September 27, 2018
Tutori
Ned Batchelder: Who tests what is here

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/201810/who_tests_what_is_here.html

A long-awaited feature of coverage.py is now available in a rough form:
Who Tests What annotates coverage data with the
name of the test function that ran the code.To try it out:
Install cover
Davy Wybiral: DIY Pumpkin Bluetooth Stereo

Link: http://davywybiral.blogspot.com/2018/10/diy-pumpkin-bluetooth-stereo.html

It's October and Halloween is my favorite holiday so to celebrate I built this Jack-o-lantern Bluetooth stereo out of a real pumpkin. It sounds great and should be really easy to scare people with (no
Codementor: Web scraping using Python and BeautifulSoup

Link: https://www.codementor.io/dankhan/web-scrapping-using-python-and-beautifulsoup-o3hxadit4

Intro
In the era of data science it is common to collect data from websites for analytics purposes.
Python is one of the most commonly used programming languages for data science projects. Using...
Jeff Knupp: Extended Absence

Link: https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2018/10/06/extended-absence//

For those who have been keeping score, I've been on somewhat of an extended absence, especially since October of last year. Much of it was the result of events in my personal life which I'll not discu
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: K Lars Lohn

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/10/08/pydev-of-the-week-k-lars-lohn/

This week we welcome K Lars Lohn (@2braids) as our PyDev of the Week! He has been a part of the Python community for quite a few years. You can learn a bit more about him over on his blog or by checki