Codementor: Python: party with Strings

Link: https://www.codementor.io/milesak60/python-party-with-strings-jps4ek1k1

Simplify string processing in Python 3.6.5 and later

Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Kai Willadsen

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/21/pydev-of-the-week-kai-willadsen/

This week we welcome Kai Willadsen (@kywe) as our PyDev of the Week! He is the maintainer of the Meld project, a cross-platform visual diff and merge tool written in Python. You can catch up with Kai

Full Stack Python: Monitoring Django Projects with Rollbar

Link: https://www.fullstackpython.com/monitor-django-projects-web-apps-rollbar.html

One fast way to scan for exceptions and errors in your
Django web application projects is to add a few lines of
code to include a hosted monitoring tool.
In this tutorial we will learn to add the
Rol

Djangostars: Debugging Python Applications with pdb

Link: https://djangostars.com/blog/debugging-python-applications-with-pdb/

Debugging isn’t a new trick – most developers actively use it in their work. Of course, everyone has their own approach to debugging, but I’ve seen too many specialists try to spot bugs using basic th

Codementor: Dynamic Programming - Lifeline of Technical interviews - 2

Link: https://www.codementor.io/rishabhdaal/dynamic-programming-lifeline-of-technical-interviews-2-jh41k3543

Discussing solution to some previously asked dynamic programming problems.

Reinout van Rees: PyCon.de: the snake in the tar pit, complex systems with python - Stephan Erb

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2017/10/27/5-snake-tar-pit.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2017 PyCon.de conference).
He started with an xkcd comic:

Often it feels this way at the beginning of a project, later on it gets
harder. You cannot just run im

Reinout van Rees: PyCon.de: graphql in the python world - Nafiul Islam

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2017/10/27/6-graphql.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2017 PyCon.de conference).
graphql is a query language for your API. You don't
call the regular REST API and get the standard responses back, but you ask for
exa

Reinout van Rees: PyCon.de: friday lightning talks

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2017/10/27/7-lightning-talks.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2017 PyCon.de conference).

Parallel numpy with Bohrium - Dion Häfner
He had to port a fortran codebase to numpy. Took a few months, but was quite
doable. Just s

Reinout van Rees: Large scale search for social sciences - Wouter van Atteveldt

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2017/11/22/large-scale-search.html


(Summary of a talk at a Dutch Python meetup). Full title: large scale search
and text analysis with Python, Elastic, Celery and a bit of R.
Wouter teaches political sciences at the university and use

Reinout van Rees: Building robust commandline tools with click and flask - Wojtek Burakiewicz

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2017/11/22/robust-commandline-tools.html


(Summary of a talk at a Dutch Python meetup).
Wojtek likes simple tools. His presentation is about a recent tool they
build: an internal tool that deploys python applications to servers with
virtuale

Reinout van Rees: What to use at my new job: mac or linux?

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/03/27/mac-or-linux.html


First things first: "new job"? Yes, I'm switching jobs. I'll give more details
once my new job actually has a website. They're quite a new company :-)
Question: "new job" means "new laptop". And I'm

Reinout van Rees: First Rotterdam (NL) Python meetup: my summaries

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/04/10/rotterdam-meetup.html



Welcome to the first Python Rotterdam meetup - Thijs Damsma
He searched for python meetups in Rotterdam, but didn't find any. So he
clicked on the "do you want to start one?" button.
Today's meetup

Reinout van Rees: File checksums in Python: the hard way - Shane Kerr

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/04/25/file-checksums.html


(Summary of a talk at the Amsterdam python meetup)
Shane is data hoarder. He hates losing data. He has lots of data. He could
move it to the cloud, but he doesn't trust that: cloud companies go away

Reinout van Rees: RESTful APIs and Django - Emad Mokhtar

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/04/25/restful-apis.html


(Summary of a talk at the Amsterdam python meetup)
Ehmad Mokhtar used Django a lot. And he loves
web APIs: you can have many intergrations. You build one back-end and it can be
used by many other ser

Reinout van Rees: The origins of Python: the ABC language - Rolf Zwart

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/04/25/origin-of-python-abc.html


(Summary of a talk at the Amsterdam python meetup)
How to compare python to ABC? ABC is the unsuccessful language that was the
inspiration for python. Guido van Rossum was originally the main impleme

Caktus Consulting Group: PyCon 2018 Recap

Link: https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2018/05/21/pycon-2018-recap/

Making connections
Before the conference, our team listed “making connections” as one of the main reasons to attend PyCon. We certainly did that, welcoming visitors to the booth and catching up with f

Real Python: Introduction to Python 3

Link: https://realpython.com/python-introduction/

Python is a high-level, interpreted scripting language developed in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands. The

Dataquest: Generating Climate Temperature Spirals in Python

Link: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/climate-temperature-spirals-python/

Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist, tweeted the following animated visualization in 2017 and captivated the world:
This visualization shows the deviations from the average temperature between 1850 and 19

Tryton News: Translation Release for series 4.8

Link: http://www.tryton.org/posts/translation-release-for-series-48.html

Due to a mistake in the process of generating the translations,
the initial release of series 4.8 contained some unstranslated strings. We
decided to make new set of releases with the correct translat

Python Software Foundation: 2018 Python Software Foundation Board Election: What is it and how can I learn more?

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/_4iPgLKMStg/2018-python-software-foundation-board.html

Every year the Python Software Foundation announces an open call for nominations for the PSF Board. Following the 2017 PSF members vote, only a subset of the entire board’s seats are open. This year t

Peter Bengtsson: Writing a custom Datadog reporter using the Python API

Link: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/writing-a-custom-datadog-reporter-using-the-python-api

Datadog is an awesome sofware-as-a-service where you can aggregate and visualize statsd metrics sent from an application. For visualizing timings you create a time series graph. It can look something