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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
Codementor: How to Extract Data from PDF to Excel

Link: https://www.codementor.io/fuyili/how-to-extract-data-from-pdf-to-excel-10shb1udzw

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and&hellip
Python Circle: The simplest explanation of Decorators in Python

Link: https://www.pythoncircle.com/post/695/the-simplest-explanation-of-decorators-in-python/

The simplest explanation of Decorators in Python, decorator example in python, what is a decorator, simple example decorator, decorator for a newbie, python decorators, changing function behavior with
Full Stack Python: Basic Data Types in Python 3: Booleans

Link: https://www.fullstackpython.com/blog/python-basic-data-types-booleans.html

Welcome back to our ongoing series of blog posts on basic data types in
Python 3! Last time, we explored the functionality of
strings. Today, we dive in to
another key data type - booleans. Booleans
ABlog for Sphinx: ABlog v0.10 released

Link: https://ablog.readthedocs.org/release/ablog-v0.10-released.html


ABlog v0.10 is released with the main focus being to support the latest version of Sphinx as well as Python 3 only support.
Ablog V0.9.X will no longer be supported as Python 2 comes to an end in a f