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Python Insider: Python 3.7.6rc1 and 3.6.10rc1 are now available for testing

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonInsider/~3/u-RWoxRRaOQ/python-376rc1-and-3610rc1-are-now.html

Python 3.7.6rc1 and 3.6.10rc1 are now available. 3.7.6rc1 is the release preview of the next maintenance release of Python 3.7;  3.6.10rc1 is the release preview of the next security-fix release of Py
Stack Abuse: Merge Sort in Python

Link: https://stackabuse.com/merge-sort-in-python/

Introduction
Merge Sort is one of the most famous sorting algorithms. If you're studying Computer Science, Merge Sort, alongside Quick Sort is likely the first efficient, general-purpose sorting algor
testmon: How to set-up and use py.test in Pycharm

Link: https://testmon.org/how-to-set-up-and-use-pytest-in-pycharm.html

We asked our friend Miro to try using Pytest with PyCharm. Miro has background
in test automation, Python, DevOps and metal music. Since he was new
to the set-up he would be the ideal person to writ
testmon: Determining affected tests

Link: https://testmon.org/determining-affected-tests.html

Automatically determining affected tests sounds too good to be true. Python developers rightfully have a suspecting attitude towards any tool which tries to be too clever about their source code. Code
testmon: New in testmon 1.0.0

Link: https://testmon.org/new-in-testmon-100.html


Significant portions of testmon have been rewritten for v 1.0.1. Although the UI is mostly the same, there are some significant differences.
End of python 2.7 support
Testmon requires python 3.6 or
Anwesha Das: Circuit Python at PyConf Hyderabad

Link: http://anweshadas.in/circuit-python-at-pyconf-hyd/

Introduction
Coding in/with hardware has become my biggest stress buster for me ever since I have been introduced to it in PyCon Pune 2017 by John. Coding with hardware provides a real-life interactio
Steve Dower: What makes Python a great language?

Link: http://stevedower.id.au/blog/python-a-great-language/

I know I’m far from the only person who has opined about this topic, but figured I’d take my turn.
A while ago I hinted on Twitter that I have Thoughts(tm) about the future of Python, and while this i
Kushal Das: Updates on Unoon in December 2019

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/updates-on-unoon-in-december-2019.html


This Saturday evening, I sat with Unoon
project after a few weeks, I was continuously running it, but, did not resume
the development effort. This time Bhavin also joined me. Together, we fixed a
loc
Kushal Das: Highest used usernames in break-in attempts to my servers 2019

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/highest-used-usernames-to-break-in-2019.html



A few days ago, I
wrote
about different IP addresses trying to break into my servers. Today, I looked into another server
to find the frequently used user names used in the SSH attempts.

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Steve Dower: What makes Python a great language?

Link: https://stevedower.id.au/blog/python-a-great-language/

I know I’m far from the only person who has opined about this topic, but figured I’d take my turn.
A while ago I hinted on Twitter that I have Thoughts(tm) about the future of Python, and while this i
Peter Bengtsson: A Python and Preact app deployed on Heroku

Link: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/python-preact-app-deployed-on-heroku

Heroku is great but it's sometimes painful when your app isn't just in one single language. What I have is a project where the backend is Python (Django) and the frontend is JavaScript (Preact). The f
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (ccvi) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2019/12/ccvi-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2019-12-14 12:53:35 GMTPython __getitem__ and in operator result in str
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.7.5 : Django admin shell by Grzegorz Tężycki.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2019/12/python-375-django-admin-shell-by.html

Today I tested another python package for Django named django-admin-shell.
This package created by Grzegorz Tężycki can be found on GitHub and come with the intro:
Django application can execute pytho
Andre Roberge: A Tiny Python Exception Oddity

Link: https://aroberge.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-tiny-python-exception-oddity.html

Today, while working on Friendly-traceback (improved documentation !) as I have been doing a lot recently, I came into an odd SyntaxError case:The inconsistent behaviour is so tiny, that I doubt most
Anwesha Das: Rootconf Hyderbad, 2019

Link: http://anweshadas.in/rootconf-hyderabad/

What is Rootconf?
Rootconf is the conference on sysadmins, DevOps, SRE, Network engineers. Rootconf started its journey in 2012 in Bangalore, 2019 was the 7th edition of Rootconf. In these years, thro
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.7.5 : Simple intro in CSRF.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2019/12/python-375-simple-intro-in-csrf.html

CSRF or Cross-Site Request Forgery is a technique used by cyber-criminals to force users into executing unwanted actions on a web application.
To protect against web form CSRF attacks, it's isn't suf
S. Lott: Functional programming design pattern: Nested Iterators == Flattening

Link: http://slott-softwarearchitect.blogspot.com/2019/12/functional-programming-design-pattern.html

Here's a functional programming design pattern I uncovered. This may not be news to you, but it was a surprise to me. It cropped up when looking at something that needs parallelization to reduced the