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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
Test and Code: 48: A GUI for pytest

Link: https://testandcode.com/48

The story of how I came to find a good user interface for running and debugging automated tests is interleaved with a multi-year effort of mine to have a test workflow that’s works smoothly with produ
Jaime Buelta: I wrote a Python book!

Link: https://wrongsideofmemphis.wordpress.com/2018/10/08/i-wrote-a-python-book/

So, great news, I wrote a book and it’s available! It’s called Python Automation Cookbook, and it’s aimed to people that already know a bit of Python (not necessarily developers only), but would like
Made With Mu: PortaMu - Making Mu Portable

Link: https://madewith.mu/mu/portamu/2018/10/08/portamu.html

(In this guest post, 14 year old Mu user and wunderkind Josh Lowe explains how
to get Mu working on locked-down school computers running Windows. School
network admins are going to go nuts over this!)
Blue Yonder Tech: Oxidizing Python: Speeding up URL quoting by 10x using Rust

Link: https://tech.blue-yonder.com/oxidizing-python-speeding-up-urlquoting-by-using-rust/

Motivation Recently a colleague of mine told me about a small bottleneck with url quoting since we are quoting a lot of storage keys at least once when loading or storing a dataset. To speed it up, we
Chris Moffitt: Pandas Crosstab Explained

Link: http://pbpython.com/pandas-crosstab.html


Introduction
Pandas offers several options for grouping and summarizing data but this variety of
options can be a blessing and a curse. These approaches are all powerful data
analysis tools but it ca
PythonClub - A Brazilian collaborative blog about Python: Trabalhando com operadores ternários

Link: http://pythonclub.com.br/trabalhando-com-operadores-ternarios.html

Quando estamos escrevendo um código qualquer, possivelmente
a expressão que mais utilizamos é o if. Para qualquer
tarefas que buscamos automatizar ou problemas que buscamos
resolver, sempre acabamo
Real Python: How to Round Numbers in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/python-rounding/

It’s the era of big data, and every day more and more business are trying to leverage their data to make informed decisions. Many businesses are turning to Python’s powerful data science ecosystem to
Full Stack Python: How to Add User Authentication to Flask Apps with Okta

Link: https://www.fullstackpython.com/blog/add-user-authentication-flask-apps-okta.html

User authentication is a basic feature in web applications
so that people can create and access their own accounts. Unfortunately,
there are many ways to improperly implement authentication.
This tut
Peter Bengtsson: The ideal number of workers in Jest

Link: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/ideal-number-of-workers-in-jest-maxWorkers

tl;dr; Use --runInBand when running jest in CI and use --maxWorkers=3 on your laptop.

We have a test suite that covers 236 tests across 68 suites and runs mainly a bunch of enzyme rendering of React
Made With Mu: Awesome Adafruit: Python, Lasers and Mu!

Link: https://madewith.mu/mu/users/2018/10/08/adafruit-lasers.html

Limor ‘Ladyada’ Fried, founder of
Adafruit and maker extraordinaire, has just released
a video demonstrating LIDAR
(laser based distance measurement) with
CircuitPython and Mu.



The source code and
Mike Driscoll: How to Export Jupyter Notebooks into Other Formats

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/10/09/how-to-export-jupyter-notebooks-into-other-formats/

When working with Jupyter Notebook, you will find yourself needing to distribute your Notebook as something other than a Notebook file. The most likely reason is that you want to share the content of
PyBites: A Short Primer on Assembers, Compilers and Interpreters

Link: https://pybit.es/python-interpreters.html

A gentle introduction to the historical evolution of programming practices.
Beginnings
In the early days of computing, hardware was expensive and programmers
were cheap. In fact, programmers were so c
PyBites: Code Challenge 53 - Query the Spotify API - Review

Link: https://pybit.es/codechallenge53_review.html

In this article we review last week's Query the Spotify API code challenge.
Reminder: new structure review post / Hacktoberfest is back!
From now on we will merge our solution into our Community bran
PyBites: Code Challenge 54 - Python Clipboard History

Link: https://pybit.es/codechallenge54.html


It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - A. Einstein

Hey Pythonistas,
It's time for another code challenge! This week we're asking you to create your own Clipboard H
PyCon: Hatchery Program Returns for 2019

Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2018/10/hatchery-program-returns-for-2019.html

PyCon is known around the world as the Python community’s premier event, attracting people from 39 countries. Outside of the main track of talks, PyCon is home to a growing number of events such as Yo
Mike Driscoll: Python: World’s Most Popular Language in 2018

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/10/09/python-worlds-most-popular-language-in-2018/

According to The Economist, Python is “becoming the world’s most popular coding language”.
Here’s a chart that shows how popular the language is:

There’s a lot of interesting information in that arti
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python in Visual Studio Code – September 2018 Release

Link: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2018/10/09/python-in-visual-studio-code-september-2018-release/


We are pleased to announce that the September 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the marketplace, or install it d
Mike Driscoll: Python 101: Episode #28 – An intro to Testing

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/10/10/python-101-episode-28-an-intro-to-testing/


In this episode, you will learn the basics of using Python’s doctest and unittest modules.
You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub


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