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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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Continuum Analytics Blog: Bringing Dataframe Acceleration to the GPU with RAPIDS Open-Source Software from NVIDIA

Link: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/bringing-dataframe-acceleration-gpu-rapids-project/

Today we are excited to talk about the RAPIDS GPU dataframe release along with our partners in this effort: NVIDIA, BlazingDB, and Quansight. RAPIDS is the culmination of 18 months of open source deve
Python Software Foundation: Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q3 2018

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/Fm7C_tOfVU4/python-software-foundation-fellow.html

We are happy to announce our 2018 3rd Quarter Python Software Foundation Fellow Members: 


Stefan Behnel
Blog, GithubAndrew Godwin
Website, TwitterDavid Markey
Eduardo Mendes
Github, Twitter, LinkedI
Real Python: Python Community Interview With Mike Grouchy

Link: https://realpython.com/interview-mike-grouchy/

If you saw the last Python Community Interview with Mahdi Yusuf, then you have already met one half of the Pycoder’s Weekly team. This time, I’m joined by Mahdi’s partner in crime, Mike Grouchy.
Mike
Continuum Analytics Blog: Anaconda Enterprise 5.2.2: Now With Apache Zeppelin and GPU improvements

Link: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/anaconda-enterprise-now-with-apache-zeppelin-gpu-improvements/

Anaconda Enterprise 5.2 introduced exciting features such as GPU-acceleration, scalable machine learning, and cloud-native model management in July. Today we’re releasing Anaconda Enterprise 5.2.2 wit
PyCharm: PyCharm 2018.3 EAP 6

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/sIjVeJzDnrQ/

You can now get the sixth release in the Early Access Program (EAP) for PyCharm 2018.3. Download now from our website
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The No Title® Tech Blog: Optimize Images v1.3 – Dynamic by default

Link: https://no-title.victordomingos.com/articles/2018/optimize-images_v1_3_dynamic_by_default

In this new release, Optimize Images will, by default, try to determine dynamically the best quality setting for each JPEG image.