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Not Invented Here: RelStorage 3.0

Link: https://dev.nextthought.com/blog/2019/11/relstorage-30.html

We're happy to announce the release of RelStorage 3.0, the relational
storage engine for ZODB. Compared to RelStorage 2, highlights include
a 30% reduction in memory usage, and up to 98% faster perfo
Not Invented Here: Introduction to ZODB Data Storage

Link: https://dev.nextthought.com/blog/2019/10/intro-zodb.html

ZODB is a powerful native object database for Python, widely known for
its use in the Zope web framework and
the Plone content management system. By
enabling transparent object graph persistence with
Robin Wilson: Easily specifying colours from the default colour cycle in matplotlib

Link: http://blog.rtwilson.com/easily-specifying-colours-from-the-default-colour-cycle-in-matplotlib/

Another quick matplotlib tip today: specifically, how easily specify colours from the standard matplotlib colour cycle.
A while back, when matplotlib overhauled their themes and colour schemes, they c
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/

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
Wingware Blog: Navigating Python Code with Wing Pro 7 (part 1 of 3)

Link: https://wingware.com/blog/code-navigation-1

Wing Python IDE includes a boatload of features aimed at making it easier to navigate and
understand the structure of Python code. Some of these allow for quick navigation between
the definition and u
Roberto Alsina: Episodio 17: Esto es Personal

Link: https://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/youtube/episodio-17-esto-es-personal.html


A veces gente me pide consejos sobre su carrera y cosas así... probablemente no soy la persona correcta para darlos.
Logilab: Typing Mercurial with pytype

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/logilaborg_en/~3/ToTtatzj_AQ/10146262

Following the recent introduction of Python type annotations (aka "type
hints") in Mercurial (see, e.g. this changeset by Augie Fackler), I've
been playing a bit with this and pytype.
pytype is a stat
Continuum Analytics Blog: Essential Open-Source Library pandas Awarded CZI Grant to Further Development

Link: https://www.anaconda.com/pandas-awarded-czi-grant/

We’re pleased to announce that pandas, the open-source library providing high-performance data structures for tabular data analysis, has received grant funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI
Talk Python to Me: #238 Collaborative data science with Gigantum

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/238/collaborative-data-science-with-gigantum

Collaborative data science has a few challenges. First of all, those who you are collaborating with might not be savvy enough in the computer science techniques (for example, git and source control or
Quansight Labs Blog: A new grant for NumPy and OpenBLAS!

Link: https://labs.quansight.org/blog/2019/11/numpy-openblas-CZI-grant/

I'm very pleased to announce that NumPy and OpenBLAS just received a $195,000 grant from
the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, through its
Essential Open Source Software for Science
(EOSS) program! This is
Matt Layman: Python Tears Through Mass Spectrometry Data

Link: https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2019/python-mass-spectrometry/

At the November 2019 Python Frederick event, Conor Jenkins showed the group how mass spectrometry works and how Python saves huge amounts of time when processing the large amount of data produced by a
Kushal Das: PoC to auto attach USB devices in Qubes

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/poc-to-auto-attach-usb-devices-in-qubes.html


Here is PoC based on
qubesadmin
API which can auto attach USB devices to any VM as required. By default Qubes
auto attaches any device to the sys-usb VM, that helps with bad/malware full
USB devices.
Wingware News: Wing Python IDE 7.1.3 - November 14, 2019

Link: https://wingware.com/news/2019-11-14

Wing 7.1.3 adds improved and expanded documentation and support for matplotlib, improves the
accuracy of code warnings, fixes automatically debugging child processes on Windows with Python 3.8,
fixes
Vinay Sajip (Logging): A Qt GUI for logging

Link: http://plumberjack.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-qt-gui-for-logging.html

A question that comes up from time to time is about how to log to a GUI application. The Qt framework is a popular cross-platform UI framework with Python bindings using PySide2 or PyQt5 libraries.
Th
Paolo Amoroso: Two Books About the Kivy GUI Framework

Link: http://blog.paoloamoroso.com/2019/11/two-books-about-kivy-gui-framework.html

The Kivy Python GUI framework is intriguing.Not only it’s cross-platform but also supports Android. Java is too verbose and low level for me and Kivy is an opportunity for developing native Android ap
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.7.5 : About PEP 506.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2019/11/python-375-about-pep-506.html

Today I did a python evaluation and saw that there are many new aspects that should be kept in mind for a programmer.
So I decided to recall some necessary elements of PEP.
First, PEP stands for Pytho
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.7.5 : About PEP 8016.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2019/11/python-375-about-pep-8016.html

Let's start with PEP 8012 which proposes a new model of Python governance based on consensus and voting, without the role of a centralized singular leader or a governing council and was rejected.
The
NumFOCUS: 2019 NumFOCUS Awards and New Contributor Recognition

Link: https://numfocus.org/blog/2019-numfocus-awards

The post 2019 NumFOCUS Awards and New Contributor Recognition appeared first on NumFOCUS.
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cciii) stackoverflow python report

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

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2019-11-16 07:05:12 GMTJoining elements of a list if those elements are