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Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cci) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2019/11/cci-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2019-11-03 09:41:24 GMTAdd new column to dataframe based on dictionary
Podcast.__init__: Accelerating The Adoption Of Python At Wayfair

Link: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/python-adoption-wayfair-episode-236/

Large companies often have a variety of programming languages and technologies being used across departments to keep the business running. Python has been gaining ground in these environments because
Reuven Lerner: Quick Python tip: “int” strips strings of whitespace

Link: https://lerner.co.il/2019/11/03/quick-python-tip-int-strips-strings-of-whitespace/

Let’s say you’re writing a Python program that asks the user to enter a number, so that you can double it:
>>> n = input("Enter a number: ")
Enter a number:
Just doubling what we get is a bad idea, th
Roberto Alsina: Episode 15: Faster Python in 5 seconds!

Link: https://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/faster-python-in-5-seconds.html

This is a video I did in spanish, but I have added english subtitles!
It's about different ways to make your python code faster without changing your code, hope people like it, because doing the subti
Frank Wierzbicki: Jython 2.7.2b2 released!

Link: http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2019/11/jython-272b2-released.html

On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that the second beta release of Jython 2.7.2 is available! This is a bugfix release.Please see the NEWS file for detailed release not
Erik Marsja: Three Easy Methods to Upgrade Pip to the Latest Version

Link: https://www.marsja.se/three-easy-methods-to-upgrade-pip-to-the-latest-version/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=three-easy-methods-to-upgrade-pip-to-the-latest-version

The post Three Easy Methods to Upgrade Pip to the Latest Version appeared first on Erik Marsja.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to upgrade pip. This may be handy, if we, for instance, are working
Django Weblog: Django bugfix releases issued: 2.2.7, 2.1.14, and 1.11.26

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/nov/04/django-bugfix-releases-227-2114-11126/

Today we've issued 2.2.7, 2.1.14, and 1.11.26 bugfix releases.
The release package and checksums are available from our downloads page, as well as from the Python Package Index. The PGP key ID used f
PyCharm: 2019.3 EAP 7

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

A new Early Access Program (EAP) version for PyCharm 2019.3 is now available! If you wish to try it out do so by downloading it from our website.
New for this version
R plugin support
We are happy to
John Cook: Generating Python code from SymPy

Link: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/10/31/generating-python-code-from-sympy/

Yesterday I wrote about Householder’s higher-order generalizations of Newton’s root finding method. For n at least 2, define

and iterate Hn to find a root of f(x). When n = 2, this is Newton’s method
CubicWeb: Implementing the langserver protocol for RQL

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cubicweborg/~3/yNz7M6UAFB8/17252883

One of our next project for cubicweb and its ecosystem is to implement
the langserver protocol for the RQL language that we are using in CW.
The langserver protocol is an idea to solve one problem: to
Python Software Foundation: The 2019 Python Developer Survey is here, take a few minutes to complete the survey!

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/Y4CDqUEnEB8/the-2019-python-developer-survey-is.html

It is that time of year and we are excited to start the official Python Developers Survey for 2019!

In 2018, the Python Software Foundation together with JetBrains conducted an official Python Develo
Mike Driscoll: The Demos for PySimpleGUI

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/10/31/the-demos-for-pysimplegui/

The PySimpleGUI project has a lot of interesting demos included with their project that you can use to learn how to use PySimpleGUI. The demos cover all the basic widgets as far as I can tell and they
EuroPython Society: EuroPython 2020: Venue and location selected

Link: https://www.europython-society.org/post/188741002380

After a work intense RFP over two months with more than 40 venues competing, 18 first round entries, and two rounds of refinements, we are now happy to announce the winner:EuroPython 2020 will be held
PyCharm: PyCharm 2019.2.4

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

PyCharm 2019.2.4 is now available!
Fixed in this Version

A regression issue that caused Pytest not to work properly with the debugger console was fixed.
The debugger console problem for PyQt5 that ca
Michael Droettboom: This Week in Glean: November 1, 2019

Link: http://droettboom.com/blog/2019/11/01/this-week-in-glean-november-1-2019/

(“This Week in Glean” is a series of blog posts that the Glean Team at Mozilla is using to try to communicate better about our work. They could be release notes, documentation, hopes, dreams, or whate
Python Insider: Python 3.5.9 is released

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonInsider/~3/D5sAVdxYnzY/python-359-is-released.html

There were no new changes
in version 3.5.9; 3.5.9 was released only because of a CDN caching
problem, which resulted in some users downloading a prerelease version
of the 3.5.8 .xz source tarball.
Brett Cannon: Why you should use `python -m pip`

Link: https://snarky.ca/why-you-should-use-python-m-pip/

Fellow core developer and Canadian, Mariatta, asked on Twitter about python -m pip and who told her about that idiom along with asking for a reference explaining it:I learned sometime ago that we shou