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Python Anywhere: EU migrations are now live!

Link: https://blog.pythonanywhere.com/182/

In brief: if you have an account on www.pythonanywhere.com you can have it migrated to eu.pythonanywhere.com -- just let us know via email to support@pythonanywhere.com.
If you'd like to know more abo
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (ccii) stackoverflow python report

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

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2019-11-09 16:17:22 GMTWhy did dict.get(key) work but not dict[key]? -
Davy Wybiral: Testing 4 Raspberry Pi Gaming Platforms

Link: https://davywybiral.blogspot.com/2019/11/testing-4-raspberry-pi-gaming-platforms.html

I've been looking to update my home media center recently and decided to survey the landscape of Raspberry Pi gaming/media platforms. This video compares the four best ones I've been able to find whic
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis: PyGotham 2019's ASL and Live Captioning Playbook

Link: https://emptysqua.re/blog/pygotham-2019-asl-live-captioning-playbook/


At PyGotham 2019 we provided live captioning and, for the first time, we offered American Sign Language interpretation and did targeted outreach to groups of Deaf programmers. As a result, we had a h
Quansight Labs Blog: uarray: Attempting to move the ecosystem forward

Link: https://labs.quansight.org/blog/2019/11/uarray-attempting-to-move-the-ecosystem-forward/

There comes a time in every project where most technological hurdles have been surpassed, and its adoption is a social problem. I believe uarray and unumpy had reached such a state, a month ago.
I the
Twisted Matrix Labs: Twisted 19.10.0 Released

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TwistedMatrixLaboratories/~3/k0FnnET5nqo/twisted-19100-released.html

On behalf of Twisted Matrix Laboratories, I am honoured to announce the release of Twisted 19.10! The highlights of this release are: Security fixes for HTTP/2 -- CVE-2019-9512 (Ping Flood), CVE-2019
Python Software Foundation: Seeking Developers for Paid Contract Improving pip

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/jAMRqiPhWSs/seeking-developers-for-paid-contract.html

The Python Software Foundation Packaging Working Group is receiving funding to work on the design, implementation, and rollout of pip's next-generation dependency resolver. (We'll be able to publicly
Erik Marsja: Tutorial: How to Read Stata Files in Python with Pandas

Link: https://www.marsja.se/how-to-read-stata-files-in-python-with-pandas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-read-stata-files-in-python-with-pandas

The post Tutorial: How to Read Stata Files in Python with Pandas appeared first on Erik Marsja.
In this post, we are going to learn how to read Stata (.dta) files in Python.
As previously described
Podcast.__init__: Automate Your Server Security With GrapheneX

Link: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/graphenex-server-security-episode-237/

The internet is rife with bots and bad actors trying to compromise your servers. To counteract these threats it is necessary to diligently harden your systems to improve server security. Unfortunately
Ned Batchelder: Coverage 5.0 beta 1

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/201911/coverage_50_beta_1.html

I want to finish coverage.py 5.0. It has some big changes, so I need people
to try it and tell me if it’s ready. Please install
coverage.py 5.0 beta 1
and try it in your environment.I especially want
Chris Moffitt: Book Review: Machine Learning Pocket Reference

Link: https://pbpython.com/ml-pocket-ref-review.html


Introduction
This article is a review of O’Reilly’s Machine Learning Pocket Reference by Matt Harrison.
Since Machine Learning can cover a lot of topics, I was very interested to see what content a “
Programiz: How to get current date and time in Python?

Link: https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/datetime/current-datetime

In this article, you will learn to get today's date and current date and time in Python. We will also format the date and time in different formats using strftime() method.
Real Python: Thinking Recursively in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/thinking-recursively-python/

In this course, you’ll learn about recursion. Recursion is a powerful tool you can use to solve a problem that can be broken down into smaller variations of itself. You can create very complex recursi
Data School: How to encode categorical features with scikit-learn (video)

Link: https://www.dataschool.io/encoding-categorical-features-in-python/

In order to include categorical features in your Machine Learning model, you have to encode them numerically using "dummy" or "one-hot" encoding. But how do you do this correctly using scikit-learn?
I
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #394 (Nov. 12, 2019)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/394

#394 – NOVEMBER 12, 2019 View in Browser » PSF Seeking Developers for Paid Contract Improving Pip The Python Software Foundation Packaging Working Group is receiving funding to work on the desig
Quansight Labs Blog: File management improvements in Spyder4

Link: https://labs.quansight.org/blog/2019/11/File-management-improvements-in-Spyder4/

Version 4.0 of Spyder—a powerful Python IDE designed for scientists, engineers and data analysts—is almost ready! It has been in the making for well over two years, and it contains lots of interesting