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Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Moshe Zadka

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/28/pydev-of-the-week-moshe-zadka/

This week we welcome Moshe Zadka (@moshezadka) as our PyDev of the Week! Moshe is a core developer of the Twisted project and he is also a co-author of Expert Twisted from Apress Publishing. He is als
codeboje: 2d and 3d Game and Rendering Engines for Python

Link: http://codeboje.de../../2d-and-3d-game-and-rendering-engines-python/

Thanks to the nice feedback i got for 2D Game Engines for Python i decided to compile a list of 2d and 3d game development possibilities with Python i found so far. It might not be complete, but i’ll
codeboje: Curated List of Markdown Editors

Link: http://codeboje.de../../markdown-editors/

Last Update May 2018
I’ve been a long time user of Markdown now and still enjoy its simplicity. So i thought it is time to rewrite this list and add some more information.
Yada, yada, just take me to
Full Stack Python: How to Explain Your Products to Developers

Link: https://www.fullstackpython.com/explain-products-developers.html

This blog post contains the slides along with a loose transcript
from my talk on appropriately marketing products to
software developers that I gave at
Silicon Valley Bank during
Ubiquity.VC's summi
Real Python: Interacting with Python

Link: https://realpython.com/interacting-with-python/

Interacting with Python
At this point, you should have a working Python 3 interpreter at hand. If you need help getting Python set up correctly, please refer to the previous section in this tutorial s
Damián Avila: RISE 5.3.0 is out!

Link: http://www.damian.oquanta.info/posts/rise-530-is-out.html





We're pleased to announce the release of RISE 5.3.0!
RISE lets you show your Jupyter notebook rendered as an executable Reveal.js-based slideshow. It is your very same notebook but in a slidy way!
Pythonicity: Accumulator

Link: https://coady.github.io/accumulator.html






A Paul Graham classic, the accumulator function.¶As an illustration of what I mean about the relative power of programming languages, consider the following problem. We want to write a function t
Kushal Das: PyQt5 thread example

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/pyqt5-thread-example.html


PyQt is the Python binding for Qt library. To write Qt5
code, we use PyQt5 module. Like many others, my first introduction to GUI
application development was using PyQt. Back in foss.in 2005 a talk f
Mike Driscoll: Creating Interactive PDF Forms in ReportLab with Python

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/29/creating-interactive-pdf-forms-in-reportlab-with-python/

The ReportLab toolkit allows you to create interactive fillable forms. The PDF standard actually has a fairly rich set of interactive elements. ReportLab doesn’t support all of these elements, but it
EuroPython: EuroPython 2018: Financial Aid Program

Link: https://blog.europython.eu/post/174368323052

As part of our commitment to the Python community, we are pleased to announce that we offer special grants for people in need of a financial aid to attend EuroPython 2018.
We offer financial aid confe
Chris Moffitt: Book Review: Machine Learning with Python Cookbook

Link: http://pbpython.com/ml-python-cookbook.html


Introduction
This article is a review of Chris Albon’s book, Machine Learning with Python Cookbook.
This book is in the tradition of other O’Reilly “cookbook” series in that it
contains short “recipe
Eli Bendersky: Understanding how to implement a character-based RNN language model

Link: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/understanding-how-to-implement-a-character-based-rnn-language-model/

In a single gist,
Andrej Karpathy did something
truly impressive. In a little over 100 lines of Python - without relying on any
heavy-weight machine learning frameworks - he presents a fairly complete
Stack Abuse: Introduction to the Python Coding Style

Link: http://stackabuse.com/introduction-to-the-python-coding-style/

Python as a scripting language is quite simple and compact. Compared to other languages, you only have a relatively low number of keywords to internalize in order to write proper Python code. Furtherm
Techiediaries - Django: Angular 6|5 Tutorial: Integrating Angular with Django

Link: https://www.techiediaries.com/django-angular-tutorial/

In the previous Angular 6 tutorial we've seen how to build a CRUD web application with a Django REST framework API back-end. In this tutorial we'll see how we can integrate the Angular 6 front-end wit
Mike Driscoll: Loading UI Files in Qt for Python

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/30/loading-ui-files-in-qt-for-python/

Qt for Python (i.e. PySide2) was announced recently and got me interested in trying to use it to load up a UI file. If you don’t know, PyQt and PySide / PySide2 can use the Qt Creator application to c
EuroPython: EuroPython 2018: Early Bird Ticket Sales

Link: https://blog.europython.eu/post/174396639222

We are happy to announce that we’ll start early bird tickets on
Thursday, at around 12:00 CEST.
We have 200 conference tickets available at the Early Bird rate and they usually sell out within a day o
Kushal Das: Tor Browser and Selenium

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/tor-browser-and-selenium.html


Many of us use Python Selenium to do
functional testing of our websites or web applications. We generally test
against Firefox and Google Chrome browser on the desktop. But, there is also a
lot of pe
Real Python: Itertools in Python 3, By Example

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

It has been called a “gem” and “pretty much the coolest thing ever,” and if you have not heard of it, then you are missing out on one of the greatest corners of the Python 3 standard library: itertool