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Real Python: Prompt Engineering: A Practical Example

Link: https://realpython.com/practical-prompt-engineering/

You’ve used ChatGPT, and you understand the potential of using a large language model (LLM) to assist you in your tasks. Maybe you’re already working on an LLM-supported application and have read abou
PyCharm: PyCharm 2024.1 Release Candidate Is Out!

Link: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2024/03/pycharm-2024-1-release-candidate-is-out/

The PyCharm 2024.1 RC is now available!
You can get the latest build from our website, through the free Toolbox App, or via snaps for Ubuntu.
Download PyCharm 2024.1 RC
To use this build, you need to
Robin Wilson: My geospatial PDF talk at FOSS4G 2021

Link: https://blog.rtwilson.com/my-geospatial-pdf-talk-at-foss4g-2021/

This is only about 3 years late – but I gave a talk at FOSS4G 2021 on geospatial PDFs. The full title was:
From static PDFs to interactive, geospatial PDFs, or, ‘I never knew PDFs could do that!’
The
Armin Ronacher: On Tech Debt: My Rust Library is now a CDO

Link: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/3/26/rust-cdo

You're probably familiar with tech debt. There is a joke that if there is
tech debt, surely there must be derivatives to work with that debt? I'm
happy to say that the Rust ecosystem has created an
Real Python: Finding Python Easter Eggs

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/finding-python-easter-eggs/

In this Code Conversation, you’ll follow a chat between Philipp and Bartosz as they go on an Easter egg hunt. Along the way, you’ll:

Learn about Easter egg hunt traditions
Uncover the first Easter eg
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #622 (March 26, 2024)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/622

#622 – MARCH 26, 2024 View in Browser » Build a Python Turtle Game: Space Invaders Clone In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll use Python’s turtle module to write a Space Invaders clone. You’ll
PyPy: Fixing a Bug in PyPy's Incremental GC

Link: https://www.pypy.org/posts/2024/03/fixing-bug-incremental-gc.html

Introduction
Since last summer, I've been looking on and off into a weird and hard to
reproduce crash bug in PyPy. It was
manifesting only on CI, and it seemed to always happen in the AST rewriting
ph
Python GUIs: Q&A: How Do I Display Images in PySide6? — Using QLabel to easily add images to your applications

Link: https://www.pythonguis.com/faq/adding-images-to-pyside6-applications/

Adding images to your application is a common requirement, whether you're building an image/photo viewer, or just want to add some decoration to your GUI. Unfortunately, because of how this is done in
Real Python: Reading and Writing WAV Files in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/python-wav-files/

There’s an abundance of third-party tools and libraries for manipulating and analyzing audio WAV files in Python. At the same time, the language ships with the little-known wave module in its standard
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #198: Build a Video Game With Python Turtle & Visualize Data in Seaborn

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/198/

Can you build a Space Invaders clone using Python's built-in turtle module? What advantages does the Seaborn data visualization library provide compared to Matplotlib? Christopher Trudeau is back on t
Python Software Foundation: DjangoCon Africa Grant Process Retrospective

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2024/03/djangocon-africa-grant-process.html

The PSF received an open letter asking us, amongst other things, to look into some of our recent grant decisions and make recommendations to the PSF Board for improving the Grants Program. We contract
Glyph Lefkowitz: DBXS 0.1.0

Link: https://blog.glyph.im/2024/03/dbxs-0.1.0.html

New Release
Yesterday I published a new release of
DBXS for you all. It’s still
ZeroVer, but it has graduated from double-ZeroVer as this
is the first nonzero minor version.
More to the point though,
Glyph Lefkowitz: The Hat

Link: https://blog.glyph.im/2024/03/the-hat.html

This year I will be going to two conferences: PyCon
2024, and North Bay Python
2024.
At PyCon, I will be promoting my open source work and my writing on this blog.
As I’m not giving a talk this year,
Robin Wilson: Explore UK place names on a map – my new web app

Link: https://blog.rtwilson.com/explore-uk-place-names-on-a-map-my-new-web-app/

As an Easter present for you all, I’ve got a new web app you can play with.
It lets you search for UK place names – things like ‘ends with burgh’ or ‘starts with great’ or ‘contains sea’ – and then pl
Glyph Lefkowitz: Software Needs To Be More Expensive

Link: https://blog.glyph.im/2024/03/software-needs-to-be-more-expensive.html

The Cost of Coffee
One of the ideas that James Hoffmann
— probably the most influential… influencer in the coffee industry — works hard
to popularize is that “coffee needs to be more expensive”.
The c
Go Deh: Finding a sub-list within a list, in Python

Link: http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/2024/03/finding-sub-list-within-list-in-python.html

 

  Existing?  As part of a larger project, I thought I might need to search for a sub-list within a given list, and because I am lazy i did a quick google and did not like the answers I found.I star
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Armin Ronacher: Skin in the Game

Link: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/3/31/skin-in-the-game

There was a bit of a kerfuffle about
subverting open source projects recently. That incident made me think
about something that's generally on my mind. That thought again was
triggered by that incid