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Python Software Foundation: Amber Brown: Batteries Included, But They're Leaking

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/Y28iS3PRyKM/amber-brown-batteries-included-but.html



Amber Brown of the Twisted project shared her criticisms of the Python standard library. This proved to be the day’s most controversial talk; Guido van Rossum stormed from the room during Q & A.

R
Evennia: Creating Evscaperoom, part 1

Link: http://evennia.blogspot.com/2019/05/creating-evscaperoom-part-1.html

Over the last month (April-May 2019) I have taken part in the Mud Coder's Guild Game Jam "Enter the (Multi-User) Dungeon". This year the theme for the jam was One Room.The result was Evscaperoom, an t
Python Software Foundation: Scott Shawcroft: History of CircuitPython

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/-JcoXQeMgsQ/scott-shawcroft-history-of-circuitpython.html



Scott Shawcroft is a freelance software engineer working full time for Adafruit, an open source hardware company that manufactures electronics that are easy to assemble and program. Shawcroft leads
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (clxxviii) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2019/05/clxxviii-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2019-05-19 10:39:17 GMTSlice a list based on an index and items behind
Codementor: Python's Counter - Part 1

Link: https://www.codementor.io/ayivima/python-s-counter-part-1-v1ut4ygi8

This article provides an introduction to Python's in-built 'Counter' tool, and is part of a series of articles on some often ignored, or undiscovered, in-built python libraries.
Podcast.__init__: Hardware Hacking Made Easy With CircuitPython

Link: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/circuitpython-hardware-hacking-episode-212/

Summary
Learning to program can be a frustrating process, because even the simplest code relies on a complex stack of other moving pieces to function. When working with a microcontroller you are in fu
Abhijeet Pal: Adding Pagination With Django

Link: https://djangocentral.com/adding-pagination-with-django/

While working on a modern web application quite often you will need to paginate the app be it for better user experience or performance. Fortunately, Django comes with built-in pagination classes for
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.7.3 : The google-cloud-vision python module - part 002.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-google-cloud-vision-python-module.html

I used Windows 8.1 and python 3.7.3 version.
The first step is to install the python module.
C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install --upgrade google-cloud-visionYou can see another tutorial about this pyth
Real Python: Unicode & Character Encodings in Python: A Painless Guide

Link: https://realpython.com/python-encodings-guide/

Handling character encodings in Python or any other language can at times seem painful. Places such as Stack Overflow have thousands of questions stemming from confusion over exceptions like UnicodeD
Stack Abuse: Overview of Async IO in Python 3.7

Link: https://stackabuse.com/overview-of-async-io-in-python-3-7/

Python 3's asyncio module provides fundamental tools for implementing asynchronous I/O in Python. It was introduced in Python 3.4, and with each subsequent minor release, the module has evolved signif
Curtis Miller: What is the probability that in a box of a dozen donuts picked from 14 flavors there’s no more than 3 flavors in the box?

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Dave's Donuts offers 14 flavors of donuts (consider the supply of each flavor as being unlimited). The “grab bag” box consists of flavors randomly selected to be in the box, each flavor equally likely
Wingware Blog: Selecting Logical Units of Python Code in Wing

Link: https://wingware.com/blog/quick-select

In this issue of Wing Tips we take a look at quickly selecting Python code in
logical units, which can make some editing tasks easier.

Select More and Select Less
The easiest way to select code from
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.7.3 : Use the tweepy to deal with twitter api - part 002.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2019/05/use-tweepy-to-deal-with-twitter-api.html

The tutorial for today is about with python 3.7.3
The development team comes with this intro:
An easy-to-use Python library for accessing the Twitter API.
The first step is to install this python modu
codingdirectional: Growth of a Population

Link: http://codingdirectional.info/2019/05/21/growth-of-a-population/

Hello and welcome back, in this episode we are going to solve a python related problem in Codewars. Before we start I just want to say that this post is related to python programming, you are welcome
Test and Code: 74: Technical Interviews: Preparing For, What to Expect, and Tips for Success - Derrick Mar

Link: https://testandcode.com/74

In this episode, I talk with Derrick Mar, CTO and co-founder of Pathrise.
This is the episode you need to listen to to get ready for software interviews.

We discuss four aspects of technical intervie
EuroPython Society: EuroPython 2019: Conference and training ticket sale opens today

Link: http://www.europython-society.org/post/185008822520

europython:
We will be starting the EuroPython 2019 conference and training ticket sales
today (Monday) at 12:00 CEST.
https://ep2019.europython.eu/registration/buy-tickets/
Only 300 training tickets