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"Morphex's Blogologue": A surveillance app (Python tree here I come!)

Link: http://blogologue.com/blog_entry?id=1537135721X17

So, lately I've been taking it very easy on the activities front, since I've had a court-related matter to get to see the kids.So I've had some ideas, urges etc. to do technical stuff, artsy stuff etc
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Philip Guo

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/10/22/pydev-of-the-week-philip-guo/

This week we welcome Philip Guo (@pgbovine) as our PyDev of the Week! Philip is the creator of the popular Python Tutor website and a professor at UC San Diego in the cognitive science and computer sc
Python Software Foundation: 2018 PSF Recurring Giving Campaign

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/EUvHynciWIk/2018-psf-recurring-giving-campaign.html

The PSF is launching an end-of-year fundraising drive to build a sustainable community of supporters. Our goal is to raise $30,000! You can help by signing up to give monthly or if you’re already a su
Graham Dumpleton: Packaging mod_wsgi into a zipapp using shiv.

Link: http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2018/10/packaging-modwsgi-into-zipapp-using-shiv.html

At the recent DjangoCon US conference, Peter Baumgartner presented a talk titled Containerless Django: Deploying without Docker. In the talk Peter described what a zipapp (executable Python zip archiv
Real Python: Getting Started With Testing in Python

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

This tutorial is for anyone who has written a fantastic application in Python but hasn’t yet written any tests.
Testing in Python is a huge topic and can come with a lot of complexity, but it doesn’t
Stack Abuse: Vim for Python Development

Link: https://stackabuse.com/vim-for-python-development/

What is Vim?
Vim is a powerful text editor that belongs to one of the default components on every Linux distribution, as well as Mac OSX. Vim follows its own concept of usage, causing the community to
Vasudev Ram: Solution for A Python email signature puzzle

Link: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2018/10/solution-for-python-email-signature.html

By Vasudev RamHi, readers,Here is the answer to the puzzle in my recent post titled A Python email signature puzzle:The answer is that the program prints this output:Truly ruralTruly ruralTruly ruralT
Full Stack Python: Fresh Tutorials on Full Stack Python

Link: https://www.fullstackpython.com/blog/fresh-tutorials-october-2018.html

There are a bunch of
new tutorials
on Full Stack Python that were written
since the last time I sent out an email newsletter. These range from getting
started with some popular open source projects
"Morphex's Blogologue": Changes to my Python surveillance (webcam, web camera) app

Link: http://blogologue.com/blog_entry?id=1537794100X77

So, I created a surveillance app a week ago, because I felt it would be comforting to be able to see if somebody had been into my room.Since then, I had to make the mailer code, the codes that mails a
PyBites: Code Challenge 55 - #100DaysOfCode Curriculum Generator - Review

Link: https://pybit.es/codechallenge55_review.html

In this article we review last week's #100DaysOfCode Curriculum Generator code challenge.
Final reminder: Hacktoberfest
8 days left to have your PRs to our challenges repo count towards Hacktoberfest
PyBites: Code Challenge 56 - Calculate the Duration of a Directory of Audio Files

Link: https://pybit.es/codechallenge56.html


There is an immense amount to be learned simply by tinkering with things. - Henry Ford

Hey Pythonistas,
It's time for another code challenge! This week we're asking you to work with directory, files
Robin Wilson: I give talks – on science, programming and more

Link: http://blog.rtwilson.com/i-give-talks-on-science-programming-and-more/

The quick summary of this post is: I give talks. You might like them. Here are some details of talks I’ve done. Feel free to invite me to speak to your group – contact me at robin@rtwilson.com. Read o
"Morphex's Blogologue": Adding (mandatory) SMTP authentication to my surveil app

Link: http://blogologue.com/blog_entry?id=1539557838X95

So, I was thinking a bit lately, about adding a small feature to my surveillance app, so that it would send a mail whenever it was started.Went about to add that this evening, when I discovered that t
"Morphex's Blogologue": Taking a look at my Python surveil(lance) app

Link: http://blogologue.com/blog_entry?id=1540301193X78

So, I created this surveillance app in Python, to surveil (https://github.com/morphex/surveil) the room where I spend most of my time, just to make sure that nobody else visits it, without my approval
Mike Driscoll: Creating Jupyter Notebook Widgets with interact

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/10/23/creating-jupyter-notebook-widgets-with-interact/

The Jupyter Notebook has a feature known as widgets. If you have ever created a desktop user interface, you may already know and understand the concept of widgets. They are basically the controls that
Wallaroo Labs: Introducing Connectors: Wallaroo’s Window to the World

Link: https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2018/10/introducing-connectors-wallaroos-window-to-the-world/

Introduction We’re excited today to introduce you to a preview release of a new Wallaroo feature: Connectors. Connectors make inputting and receiving data from Wallaroo even easier.
In this post, we’l
Codementor: Skills Series: A Beginner’s Guide to Python

Link: https://www.codementor.io/lokeshgupta/skills-series-a-beginner-s-guide-to-python-olr24o974

Start wPython is the ?1 most prevalent programming dialect utilized by information examiners, information researchers, and programming designers to mechanize forms, assemble the usefulness of...
Catalin George Festila: Python Qt5 - toolbar example.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2018/10/python-qt5-toolbar-example.html

This is a simple example with PyQt5 python module and python 3.6.4 version.The example is about how to create a toolbar with PyQt5.The base of this source code is the create a default window applicati