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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
PyCharm: Hotfix for PyPI compatibility for older PyCharm versions

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/VQ-e43-AMZc/

Latest versions of pip starting from v10.0 changed parts of their APIs. That’s why several older versions of PyCharm became incompatible with the newer pip versions. If you use previous PyCharm versio
Python Insider: Python 3.7.0b5, a bonus beta, is now available for testing

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonInsider/~3/rPQiRIs2Qhg/python-370b5-bonus-beta-is-now.html

A 3.7 update: Python 3.7.0b5 is now the final beta preview of Python 3.7, the next feature release of Python.  3.7.0b4 was intended to be the final beta but, due to some unexpected compatibility issue
Reinout van Rees: Djangocon: accessibility matters: building a better web - Lindsey Dragun

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/05/23/09-accessibility.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2018 european djangocon.)
Lindsey runs the DisabledInTech slack channel.
For Web accessibility, see
https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/accessibility-intro/ as a
PyCharm: PyCharm 2018.1.4

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/nWi9vvdZmjY/

We’re happy to announce that today a new version of PyCharm is available for download from our website.
Improved in this Version

Various issues related to installing packages, both with Conda and vir
EuroPython: EuroPython 2018: First list of accepted sessions available

Link: https://blog.europython.eu/post/174432294532

We have received an amazing collection of 376 proposals. Thank you all for your contributions! Given the overwhelming quality of the proposals, we had some very difficult decisions to make. Nonetheles
Reinout van Rees: Ansible provision/deploy setup

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/05/31/ansible-provision-deploy.html


I never got around to write down the ansible setup I figured out (together
with others, of course, at my previous job) for deploying/provisioning django
websites.
The whole setup (as a cookiecutter
t
Reinout van Rees: Djangocon: lightning talks wednesday

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/05/23/10-lightning-talks.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2018 european djangocon.)
Lightning talks are quick 5 minute talks, so I won't have every detail and
speaker name correctly :-)

Adding multi-factor authenticati
Janusworx: Testing the Python RSS tag feed

Link: https://janusworx.com/posts/testing-the-python-rss-tag-feed.html

Testing … just testing
Continuum Analytics Blog: Anaconda Distribution 5.2 Released

Link: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/anaconda-distribution-5-2/

We’re excited to announce the release of Anaconda Distribution 5.2! With over 6 million users, Anaconda Distribution is the world’s most popular and easiest way to do Python data science and machine l
PyCharm: PyCharm 2018.2 EAP 2

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/f2pcVZvgPjU/

The second Early Access Program (EAP) version of PyCharm 2018.2 is now available. We’d like to invite you to download this version from our website.
New in PyCharm 2018.1 EAP 2
Flexible Package Manage
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Recap: Microsoft at PyCon US 2018

Link: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2018/05/31/recap-microsoft-at-pycon-us-2018/

Microsoft was a keystone-level sponsor of PyCon US 2018 this year, which took place in Cleveland Ohio from May 9-17th. We had a great time interacting with and learning from the community, and we had
Stack Abuse: Course Review: Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp

Link: http://stackabuse.com/course-review-python-for-data-science-and-machine-learning-bootcamp/

Before we get started it would be helpful to know what data science and machine learning actually are. So in case you don't know, here are some basic definitions:

Data science is an interdisciplinary
Reinout van Rees: Djangocon: growing old gracefully, on being a career programmer - Carlton Gibson

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/05/24/05-career-programmer.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2018 european djangocon.)
He's a longtime django user. "The web framework for perfectionists": yes,
that's him.
He has also build lots of backends for IOS apps.
Reinout van Rees: Djangocon: automated spell checking in django projects - Jakob Schnell

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/05/24/08-spell-checking.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2018 European djangocon.)
We are humans and we make typos. So there are typos in our code.
The two common places for typos are documentation and the user interfa