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Python Piedmont Triad User Group: PYPTUG Monthly Meeting (October): Altair, Ansible and more

Link: http://www.pyptug.org/2018/10/pyptug-monthly-meeting-october-altair.html

DetailsCome join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (October 30th 2018) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the language to learn if you've never programm
Catalin George Festila: Python Qt5 - MP3 player example.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2018/10/python-qt5-mp3-player-example.html

This tutorial with PyQt5 will allow us to play an MP3 file using QtMultimedia. I used a test.mp3 file in the same folder with my python script.This is the source script:import sysfrom PyQt5 import QtC
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, Github
Andrew Godwin
Website, Twitter
David Markey
Twitter
Eduardo Mendes
Github, Twitt
Python Celery - Weekly Celery Tutorials and How-tos: Celery Execution Pools: What is it all about?

Link: https://www.distributedpython.com/2018/10/26/celery-execution-pool/

Have you ever asked yourself what happens when you start a Celery worker? Ok, it might not have been on your mind. But you might have come across things like execution pool, concurrency settings, pref
Not Invented Here: Introducing nti.fakestatsd

Link: https://dev.nextthought.com/blog/2018/10/introducing-ntifakestatsd.html

Lately at NextThought we've been much more focused on using
application level metrics to proactively monitor and understand the
run-time characteristics of our applications. Much of the open source
st
BangPypers: Talks - October, 2018

Link: http://bangalore.python.org.in/blog/2018/10/27/oct-talk/

For October 2018's session, we had a session on “Data Science” . The venue was G0-JEK, Domlur and we had 3 speakers. All the sessions ran for around 40 minutes.
The first talk by Usha was on “Introduc
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cxlix) stackoverflow python report

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

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2018-10-27 21:39:49 GMTDifferent object size of True and False in Pytho
PyBites: PyBites Twitter Digest - Issue 34, 2018

Link: https://pybit.es/twitter_digest_201834.html

Python 3.6.7 and 3.7.1 have been released!
Python 3.6.7 and 3.7.1 released! https://t.co/jIVCXNPkiZ— Guido van Rossum (@gvanrossum) October 20, 2018
Read about how Erik from our PyBites Community star
Kushal Das: Fedora 29 on Qubes OS

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/fedora-29-on-qubes-os.html


I spent most of my life using Fedora as my primary
operating system on my desktop/laptops. I use CentOS on
my servers, sometimes even Fedora, and a few special cases, I use *BSD systems.

But, for th
Zato Blog: zato-apitest 1.12 - API testing for humans

Link: https://zato.io/blog/posts/api-testing-for-humans.html

Version 1.12 of
zato-apitest
has just been released. This version simplifies installation requirements and adds compatibility with PostgreSQL 10+ databases.
zato-apitest is an API testing tool designe
Jaime Buelta: Package and deploy a Python module in PyPI with Poetry, tox and Travis

Link: https://wrongsideofmemphis.wordpress.com/2018/10/28/package-and-deploy-a-python-module-in-pypi-with-poetry-tox-and-travis/

I’ve been working for the last couple of days in a small command line tool in Python, and I took the opportunity to check out a little bit Poetry, which seems to help in package and distribute Python
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Anthony Sottile

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/10/29/pydev-of-the-week-anthony-sottile/

This week we welcome Anthony Sottile (@codewithanthony) as our PyDev of the Week! Anthony is one of the maintainers for the tox and pytest packages. He is also on the “deadsnakes” PPA team, which back
Made With Mu: Python on Hardware Vlog, from Adafruit.

Link: https://madewith.mu/mu/users/2018/10/29/python-on-hardware.html

If you’re a mutineering mutant into playful hacking of embedded hardware with
CircuitPython or MicroPython
then check out the new video newsletter
from Adafruit.



It’s a quick summary of all that’s
PyCon: PyCon 2019 Reminders

Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2018/10/pycon-2019-reminders.html

As November approaches, many of us are starting to plan for the holidays, vacations, and/or how to bring in the New Year.  Before we get seasonally busy, we wanted to take the time to remind Pythonist
Real Python: Python Community Interview With Michael Kennedy

Link: https://realpython.com/interview-michael-kennedy/

This week, our Python community interview is with none other than Michael Kennedy of Talk Python to Me fame.
You may know his authoritative voice, but do you know his Python story? Read on to find ou
Weekly Python Chat: pathlib in Python: why you should use it

Link: http://ccst.io/e/pathlib

Python is great for working with files, but there are a lot of different functions and modules to memorize when you need to work with files and directories in Python.
The os module and the os.path mod
PyBites: Code Challenge 56 - Calculate the Duration of a Directory of Audio Files - Review

Link: https://pybit.es/codechallenge56_review.html

In this article we review last week's Calculate the Duration of a Directory of Audio Files code challenge.
Hacktoberfest almost over
The last two days of Hacktoberfest No. 5! Wrap up your PRs!
Commun
PyBites: Code Challenge 57 - Analyze Olympic Games Data With Pandas

Link: https://pybit.es/codechallenge57.html


Life is about facing new challenges - Kostya Tszyu

Hey Pythonistas,
A new week, a new Python code challenge!
This week you can use Python, Pandas and all the libraries you need to analyze the data