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Reuven Lerner: Today’s lesson in “Python for non-programmers”: Dictionaries

Link: https://lerner.co.il/2020/05/15/todays-lesson-in-python-for-non-programmers-dictionaries/

My free, weekly “Python for non-programmers” course continues!
Our topic for today: Dictionaries, the most important data structure in Python.
If you’ve always wanted to program, then it’s still not t
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #9: Leveling Up Your Python Literacy and Finding Python Projects to Study

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/9/

In your quest to become a better developer, how do you find Python code that is at your reading level? What are good code bases or projects to study? What are the things holding you back from leveling
Kushal Das: Single file implementation of PEP582

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/single-file-implementation-of-pep582.html


During 2018 CPython core developer sprint, I worked on the PEP
582. The goal was to help all the
newbie learners during their first day writing Python by skipping the whole
complexity of virtual envi
David Szotten: Nginx caching with django

Link: http://www.szotten.com/david/nginx-caching-with-django.html

For a small django site I run, I'd like to add nginx caching in front of my django server. Here's the setup I ended up with.
The pages I want to cache are available for both anonymous and logged in us
Catalin George Festila: IronPython 2.7.7 : Intro on RevitPythonShell.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2020/05/ironpython-277-intro-on-revitpythonshell.html

This is one of the several ways to use RevitPythonWrapper:pyRevit;RevitPythonShell;Dynamo;

This tool help you to use python with the Revit tool and can be found at the GitHub webpage.
They say:
The R
Test and Code: 113: Technical Debt - James Smith

Link: https://testandcode.com/113

Technical debt has to be dealt with on a regular basis to have a healthy product and development team.
The impacts of technical debt include emotional drain on engineers and slowing down development a
PyCharm: 5 takeaways from the Python Developer Survey 2019

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/ixHFSA3l5uI/

Last week the Python Software Foundation (PSF) published the results of the Python Developer Survey 2019. The research was conducted in the fall of 2019 and collected answers from over 24 thousand Pyt
Anwesha Das: Looking at the process through psutil and Python

Link: http://anweshadas.in/looking/

Lately I have been trying to improve my system administration skills. I needed to monitor some of the running processes. To do that I used psutil module in Python. It is a cross platform module to pa
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (ccxxviii) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2020/05/ccxxviii-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2020-05-16 11:17:36 GMTHow to efficiently get the mean of the elements
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Connect with us at Microsoft Build digital event

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/connect-with-us-at-microsoft-build-digital-event/

We in the Python team are excited to be joining Microsoft Build 2020, which is starting next Tuesday, May 19. During a global pandemic, Build has turned into a digital-only event, running for 48 conti
Davy Wybiral: Raspberry Pi 4 Complete Guide

Link: https://davywybiral.blogspot.com/2020/05/raspberry-pi-4-complete-guide.html

I've been a fan of Raspberry Pi since the original Pi 1 so it's always exciting for me to see how these boards evolve with each new model. The newest Raspberry Pi 4 is no exception and it certainly ra
Davy Wybiral: ESP32-Cam Quickstart with Arduino Code

Link: https://davywybiral.blogspot.com/2020/01/esp32-cam-quickstart-with-arduino-code.html

Learn how to add a camera to your Arduino projects the easy way using one of these cheap ESP32-Cam modules. Great for pet cams, home surveillance, time lapses, and computer vision applications. 
Doug Hellmann: beagle 0.2.2

Link: http://feeds.doughellmann.com/~r/doughellmann/python/~3/9bsAmnNwEW4/

beagle is a command line tool for querying a hound code search service such as http://codesearch.openstack.org What’s new in 0.2.2? fix the reference to undefined function in link formatter Fix issues
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.8.3 : Simple example to fix maximum recursion depth exceeded.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2020/05/python-383-simple-example-to-fix.html

This short tutorial try to solve simple and easy the stack limit for recursion without using advanced programming techniques.
sys.setrecursionlimit(limit)
Set the maximum depth of the Python inter
Codementor: Python Caches Integers

Link: https://www.codementor.io/arpitbhayani/python-caches-integers-16jih595jk

An integer in Python is not a traditional 2, 4, or 8-byte implementation but rather it is implemented as an array of digits in base 2^30 which enables Python to support super long integers...
PyBites: Assertions About Exceptions With pytest.raises()

Link: https://pybit.es/guest-pytest-raises.html

I got some feedback related to Bite 243 recently. Since that's a testing bite, it means working with pytest and specifically checking for exceptions with pytest.raises(). The comment got me to look at
Podcast.__init__: Easy Data Validation For Your Python Projects With Pydantic

Link: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/pydantic-data-validation-episode-263/

One of the most common causes of bugs is incorrect data being passed throughout your program. Pydantic is a library that provides runtime checking and validation of the information that you rely on in
Real Python: Python vs JavaScript for Pythonistas

Link: https://realpython.com/python-vs-javascript/

If you’re serious about web development, then you’ll need to learn about JavaScript at some point. Year after year, numerous surveys have shown that JavaScript is one of the most popular programming l