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PyCon: Become a PyCon US 2023 Volunteer!

Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2022/10/become-pycon-us-2023-volunteer.html

A community conference like PyCon US is in large part run by volunteers. There are many ways to get involved if you are interested in serving the community and meeting others as part of the team who m
Paolo Melchiorre: About my proposal for the Django Core Sprints 🌅

Link: https://www.paulox.net/2022/10/26/about-my-proposal-for-the-django-core-sprints/

The story of how the proposal to organize sprints on the Django core was born and how I proposed it during the past DjangoCon US 2022 in San Diego to various components of the Django community.
Python Bytes: #307 Your Python just got faster (3.11 is out!)

Link: https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/307/your-python-just-got-faster-3.11-is-out

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Glyph Lefkowitz: Super Swing Districts

Link: https://blog.glyph.im/2022/10/super-swing-districts.html

In my corner of the social graph, when we talk about politics today, we tend to
use a lot of moralizing language. A lot of emotive language. And that makes
sense; overt fascist are repeating the str
Andre Roberge: Better NameError messages for Python

Link: https://aroberge.blogspot.com/2022/10/better-nameerror-messages-for-python.html

Python 3.11 is barely out and already the 3.12 alpha has some improvements for NameError messages. I suspect that these will be backported to 3.11 in time for the next release. On Ideas Python Discuss
Python⇒Speed: Early speed optimizations aren't premature

Link: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/premature-optimization/

As you code, you might have a coworker, or friend, or a little voice in your head, reminding you of Knuth’s famous saying: “premature optimization is the root of all evil.”
But what makes an optimizat
Talk Python to Me: #387: Build All the Things with Pants Build System

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/387/build-all-the-things-with-pants-build-system

Do you have a large or growing Python code base? If you struggle to run builds, tests, linting, and other quality checks regularly or quickly, you'll want to hear what Benjy Weinberger has to say. He'
PyBites: The role of luck

Link: https://pybit.es/articles/pp92-the-role-of-luck/

Listen here:

Today we talk about luck and how it relates to career success.It annoys the heck out of us when people say about successful people “oh they were just lucky”.Sure luck has a role, but oft
PyCharm: PyCharm 2022.3 EAP 3 Is Out!

Link: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2022/10/2022-3-eap-3/

In this new EAP build, we’ve introduced the ability to execute asynchronous code in the Debug Console and Evaluate dialog, improved the parsing and rendering of some sections for class docstrings, enh
PyBites: From teacher to software developer

Link: https://pybit.es/articles/pp93-pfrom-teacher-to-software-developer/

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In this episode we talk with none other than Sean Tibor from the Teaching Python podcast.
Did you know he recently made an important career switch from teacher to developer? 
You’ll hear
Ned Batchelder: Ideal open source

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202210/ideal_open_source.html

A friend asked my opinion about DHH’s essay from last year:
I won’t let you pay me for my open source.
He makes some interesting points about how Bill Gates and Richard Stallman,
the poster children f
Go Deh: Ouch, vscode! 😠

Link: http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/2022/10/ouch-vscode.html

The company cloud has hundreds of machines and I need to get some idea of the hardware so I find dmidecode for the functionality and need to parse its structured output and generate A Python datastruc
IslandT: Matplotlib Tutorial — Start to create a simple graph

Link: https://islandtropicaman.com/wp/2022/10/30/matplotlib-tutorial-start-to-create-a-simple-graph/

Matplotlib is a third-party python library that you can use to create various graphs as well as charts to present your data. This is the starting article of the 10 parts series of the Matplotlib libra
PyPy: The PyPy Blog Turns 15 Years

Link: https://www.pypy.org/posts/2022/10/blog-15-years.html

Exactly 15 years ago today we wrote the first blog post on the PyPy blog!
Over the years, we have written 423 posts, from the shortest to the
longest. In 2021 we moved from blogger to our own domain.
Podcast.__init__: Add Configuration Best Practices To Your Application In An Afternoon With Dynaconf

Link: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/dynaconf-application-configuration-management-episode-383/

Application configuration is a deceptively complex problem. Everyone who is building a project that gets used more than once will end up needing to add configuration to control aspects of behavior or
STX Next: Hugging Face: Basic Task Tutorial for Solving Text Classification Issues

Link: https://www.stxnext.com/blog/hugging-face-tutorial/




Natural language processing is one of the leading domains of AI that involves enabling computers to understand human language.
IslandT: Matplotlib Tutorial — Create a bar chart

Link: https://islandtropicaman.com/wp/2022/10/31/matplotlib-tutorial-create-a-bar-chart/

In this Matplotlib example, I am going to create a bar chart to represent the quantity of the wear I have sold recently.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

wear = ['Slipper',
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Vinay Sajip

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2022/10/31/pydev-of-the-week-vinay-sajip/

This week we welcome Vinay Sajip as our PyDev of the Week! Vinay is a core developer of the Python language. Vinay is also a core contributor for python-gnupg, a Python API for the GNU Privacy Guard a
Python for Beginners: How to Search for a String in a Text File Through Python

Link: https://www.pythonforbeginners.com/strings/how-to-search-for-a-string-in-a-text-file-through-python

In this post, we’ll explore the various methods used to search for a string in a text file. Using examples written in Python 3, we’ll demonstrate how to open and read both text files and CSV files. On