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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
Zero to Mastery: Python Monthly Newsletter 💻🐍

Link: https://zerotomastery.io/blog/python-monthly-newsletter-march-2024/?utm_source=python-rss-feed

52nd issue of Andrei Neagoie's must-read monthly Python Newsletter: The Rye Option, Think Python, Sora, and much more. Read the full newsletter to get up-to-date with everything you need to know from
Luke Plant: Enforcing conventions in Django projects with introspection

Link: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/enforcing-conventions-in-django-projects-with-introspection/

Naming conventions can make a big difference to the maintenance issues in software projects. This post is about how we can use the great introspection capabilities in Python to help enforce naming con
Python Software Foundation: New Open Initiative for Cybersecurity Standards

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2024/04/new-open-initiative-for-cybersecurity.html

The Python Software Foundation is pleased to announce our participation in co-starting a new Open Initiative for Cybersecurity Standards collaboration with the Apache Software Foundation, the Eclipse
EuroPython: EuroPython 2024: Ticket sales now open! 🐍

Link: https://blog.europython.eu/europython-2024-ticket-sales-now-open/

Hey hey, everyone,We are thrilled to announce that EuroPython is back and better than ever! EuroPython 2024 will be held 8-14 July at the Prague Congress Centre (PCC), Czech Republic. Details of how