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Mike Driscoll: PyCon 2018 – Conference Day 1 (May 11)

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/12/pycon-2018-conference-day-1-may-11/

PyCon 2018 in Cleveland, Ohio kicked off their first conference day with an introduction from one of Cleveland’s natives, Ernest W. Durbin III. Then we moved on to the keynote of the morning which was
Fabio Zadrozny: Howto launch and debug in VSCode using the debug adapter protocol (part 2)

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/pydev/~3/cj5dn6t4n5k/howto-launch-and-debug-in-vscode-using_12.html

Ok, after the basic infracstructure, the next thing to do is actually launch some program without worrying about the debugger, so, we'll just run a program without being in debug mode to completion, s
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Talk Python to Me: #161 Django 2.0

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/161/django-2.0

Django has reached a major milestone with its 2.0 release. This puts legacy Python (that is Python 2) fully in the rear-view mirror and brings some nice new features to the framework.
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cxxv) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2018/05/cxxv-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2018-05-12 21:53:40 GMTWhy does "test".count('') return 5? - [11/2]Pyth
Python Does What?!: Captain, the python grammar can't take anymore!

Link: http://www.pythondoeswhat.com/2018/05/captain-python-grammar-cant-take-anymore.html

The expressions are going to tear themselves to pieces!>>> 'a'       .strip    (    ) [    0 ]'a'
Amit Saha: A demo plugin based Python code analyser

Link: https://echorand.me/a-demo-plugin-based-python-code-analyser.html

A few weeks back I wrote a analyser for Apache Thrift IDL in Python. We used it to enforce
some code review guidelines. When we hooked it onto arcanist lint engine, we could give feedback to developer
Dan Crosta: Now Seeking PyGotham Program Committee Members

Link: https://late.am/post/2018/05/13/seeking-pygotham-program-committee-members.html


marc thiele
Last year’s PyGotham had a great program committee of four organizers and
eight volunteers. Unfortunately due to the constrained timeline of the 2017
conference and everyone’s individual
Amit Saha: Video: PYCON US 2018 Talk - Counter, Gauge, Oh my!

Link: https://echorand.me/video-pycon-us-2018-talk-counter-gauge-oh-my.html

The video for my PyCon talk - "Counter, Gauge, Oh My!" is up:


The accompanying git repository is here and has
the demos, links to some of my related articles and other resources.
If you have any fee
Nikola: Nikola v8.0.0b2 is out!

Link: https://getnikola.com/blog/nikola-v800b2-is-out.html

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate
availability of Nikola v8.0.0b2. This release fixes some bugs found in
v8.0.0b1, and adds a few new appearance features (featured p
Mike Driscoll: PyCon 2018 – Conference Day 2 (May 12)

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/13/pycon-2018-conference-day-2-may-12/

Day two of PyCon 2018 was kicked off with a few lightning talks. Next up were the keynotes. The first keynote was given by Ying Li from Docker. She spent her keynote talking about good security practi
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Anthony Shaw

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/14/pydev-of-the-week-anthony-shaw/

This week we welcome Anthony Shaw (@anthonypjshaw) as our PyDev of the Week! Anthony is involved in several open source projects. You can read up on all of them over on his website. He also has a blog
Robin Wilson: BankClassify: simple automatic classification of bank statement entries

Link: http://blog.rtwilson.com/bankclassify-simple-automatic-classification-of-bank-statement-entries/

This is another entry in my ‘Previously Unpublicised Code’ series – explanations of code that has been sitting on my Github profile for ages, but has never been discussed publicly before. This time, I
"Menno's Musings": Never Write Shell Scripts Again

Link: http://menno.io/posts/never-write-shell-scripts-again/

I recently gave a talk at the Christchurch Python meetup which
discussed the strengths and weaknesses of shell scripts, and why you
might want to consider using Python instead of shell scripts. I went
Mike Driscoll: PyCon 2018 – Conference Day 3 (May 13)

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/14/pycon-2018-conference-day-3-may-13/

Day 3 of PyCon 2018 began with a keynote from one of the longtime core developers of Python, Brett Cannon. He spoke on the struggles of working in open source and how we should treat each other with k
Real Python: Python 3's f-Strings: An Improved String Formatting Syntax (Guide)

Link: https://realpython.com/python-f-strings/

As of Python 3.6, f-strings are a great new way to format strings. Not only are they more readable, more concise, and less prone to error than other ways of formatting, but they are also faster!
By th
Montreal Python User Group: Montreal-Python 72: Call for speakers

Link: http://montrealpython.org/en/2018/05/mp72-cfp/

We are looking for lightning talks (5min) submissions for our next event.
Send your proposals at team@montrealpython.org
When
June 11th, 2018 6PM to 9PM
Where
To be determined