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Stack Abuse: PyTesseract: Simple Python Optical Character Recognition

Link: https://stackabuse.com/pytesseract-simple-python-optical-character-recognition/

Introduction
Humans can understand the contents of an image simply by looking. We perceive the text on the image as text and can read it.
Computers don't work the same way. They need something more co
Nigel Babu: The Funniest Incident Postmortem

Link: https://nigelb.me/2019-02-08-the-funniest-incident-postmortem

Recently, I had a chance to think about an outage that I debugged and fixed a few years ago that involves Jenkins and systemd (or in this case lack thereof!).
Generally, if you want to run a task at t
Wingware News: Wing Python IDE 7.0.0.6 Early Access

Link: https://wingware.com/news/2019-02-08

Wing 7 is now available through our early access program. It improves the code
warnings system, adds an array and data frame viewer, supports PEP 3134 chained
exceptions, improves bookmarking, extends
PyCon: PyCon 2020-2021 Location

Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2019/02/pycon-2020-2021-location.html

Now that registration and planning are well underway for PyCon 2019 in Cleveland, the PSF is pleased to announce that the home for PyCon 2020 and 2021 will be Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! The conference
codingdirectional: Counts the points of our team in the championship

Link: http://codingdirectional.info/2019/02/09/counts-the-points-of-our-team-in-the-championship/

Hello and today we will continue to solve the problem posted on codewars, if you have not yet joined codewars then I really encourage you to do so because this site is a real deal for those of you who
gamingdirectional: Create a player object in pygame

Link: http://gamingdirectional.com/blog/2019/02/09/create-a-player-object-in-pygame/

In this article, we will create a player sprite class which will render the player image on the game scene. First, we will create the player object class which serves as the container for the player’s
codingdirectional: Return the day in a week with python

Link: http://codingdirectional.info/2019/02/09/return-the-day-in-a-week-with-python/

Hi, I just have a time to solve another python question today. In this example, we are going to develop a method which will receive a number from the user input and returns which day in a week is that
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (clxiv) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2019/02/clxiv-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2019-02-09 12:27:10 GMTHow to combine similar characters in a list? - [
PyPy Development: Düsseldorf Sprint Report 2019

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PyPyStatusBlog/~3/XISOIj7ytEY/dusseldorf-sprint-report-2019.html

Hello everyone!
We are happy to report a successful and well attended sprint that is wrapping up
in Düsseldorf, Germany. In the last week we had eighteen people sprinting
at the Heinrich-Heine-Univers
Talk Python to Me: #198 Catching up with the Anaconda distribution

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/198/catching-up-with-the-anaconda-distribution

It's time to catch up with the Anaconda crew and see what's new in the Anaconda distribution. This edition of Python was created to solve some of the stickier problems of deployment, especially in the
Davide Moro: High quality automated docker hub push using Github, TravisCI and pyup for Python tool distributions

Link: http://davidemoro.blogspot.com/2019/02/automated-docker-hub-push-travisci-pyup-python.html

Let's say you want to distribute a Python tool with docker using known good dependency versions ready to be used by end users... In this article you will see how to continuously keeping up to date a D
Kushal Das: When I was sleepy

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/when-i-was-sleepy.html



Back in 2005 I joined my first job, in a software company in Bangalore. It was a
backend of a big foreign bank. We trained heavily on different parts of software
development during the first few mon
Christian Barra: Onboarding for tech new hires

Link: https://chrisbarra.xyz/posts/about-onboarding/

Hiring a new member for a tech team is such a long process that as soon as the contract is signed you would like to think that your job is done.
But is it?
No exactly, your hiring process is not yet
Przemysław Kołodziejczyk: pipenv and pyenv

Link: https://eshlox.net/2019/02/10/pipenv-and-pyenv/

What’s pyenv?
pyenv lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python
It’s like nvm but for Python ;-)
Install pyenv.
brew install pyenv How to use it?
Install a specific Python version:
py
Przemysław Kołodziejczyk: Python 3 - Template strings instead of external template engine

Link: https://eshlox.net/2019/02/10/python-3-template-strings-instead-of-external-template-engine/

I don’t know about you, but there is only one thing where I use templates on the backend side.
Emails.
Usually, when people need to render HTML template, they install Jinja2 or other template engines.
Catalin George Festila: Using the asciimatics and pyfiglet python modules

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2019/02/using-asciimatics-and-pyfiglet-python.html

This is a simple example how to use the asciimatics and pyfiglet python modules with python version 3.6.4.First you need to install with the pip tool.The source code is simple and start with the impor