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Anwesha Das: Gnome wins the battle against the patent troll

Link: http://anweshadas.in/gnome-wins-the-battle-against-the-patent-troll/

The Gnome Foundation settled the dispute with Rothschild Patent Imaging (RPIL), RPIL agrees not to sue Gnome further for any intellectual property infringement. RPIL also signed to an undertaking to
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (ccxxix) stackoverflow python report

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

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2020-05-23 12:57:35 GMTComparing a string with multiple substrings of a
Kushal Das: A few new generation command line tools

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/a-few-new-generation-command-line-tools.html


Many of us live on the terminal. We use tools which allows us to do things
faster and let us stay productive. Most of these tools are old. Sometimes we do
pick up a few new generation command line to
Erik Marsja: How to Import Historical Stock Prices Into A Python Script Using the IEX Cloud API

Link: https://www.marsja.se/import-historical-stock-prices-in-python-using-the-iex-cloud-api/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=import-historical-stock-prices-in-python-using-the-iex-cloud-api

The post How to Import Historical Stock Prices Into A Python Script Using the IEX Cloud API appeared first on Erik Marsja.
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Ned Batchelder: What I think is good and bad

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/202005/what_i_think_is_good_and_bad.html

I’m in the #python IRC channel on Freenode a lot. The people there are often
quite opinionated. Julian had the idea
of processing the logs to see what we thought was good, and what was bad, using
sop
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.8.3 : A brief introduction to the Celery python package.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2020/05/python-383-brief-introduction-to-celery.html

The development team tells us:
Celery is a simple, flexible, and reliable distributed system to process vast amounts of messages, while providing operations with the tools required to maintain such a
Test and Code: 114: The Python Software Foundation (PSF) Board Elections - Ewa Jodlowska / Christopher Neugebauer

Link: https://testandcode.com/114

"The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of
Codementor: Consistent Hashing

Link: https://www.codementor.io/arpitbhayani/consistent-hashing-with-binary-search-16rec8e8eh

Consistent hashing is a hashing technique that performs really well when operated in a dynamic environment where the distributed system scales up and scales down frequently. The core concept of...
Armin Ronacher: My Standard Desktop

Link: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2020/5/24/my-standard-desktop

Like many others I'm spending a lot more time working from home now. This
in no way is a new situation for me, but I figured I might as well write a
bit about how I work from home given the increased
Zero-with-Dot (Oleg Żero): Financial Independence - simulating ODEs with python

Link: https://zerowithdot.com/financial-independence-ode-python/

Introduction
Imagine one day you wake up and you know you are free to do whatever you like for the rest of your life… and… money is no longer a problem.
You became truly financially independent
and y
Reuven Lerner: “Python Workout” is Manning’s Deal of the Day!

Link: https://lerner.co.il/2020/05/25/python-workout-is-mannings-deal-of-the-day-5/

Good news: My book, “Python Workout,” is almost done; I’m working on the videos and final edits, and it’ll soon be available in its final form from Manning, both online and in print.

Better news: “Py
PSF GSoC students blogs: [Community Bonding Period] What is Automatic Differentiation?

Link: https://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/sangyxs-blog/community-bonding-period-what-is-automatic-differentiation/

<meta charset="utf-8">The optimization process of deep learning models is based on the gradient descent method. Deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and Tensorflow can be divided into three parts:
Stack Abuse: The Factory Method Design Pattern in Python

Link: https://stackabuse.com/the-factory-method-design-pattern-in-python/

Introduction
In this article, we'll be diving into the Factory Method Design Pattern, implemented in Python.
Design Patterns define tried and tested solutions to various recurring problems in software
Real Python: Creating and Modifying PDF Files in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/creating-modifying-pdf/

The PDF, or Portable Document Format, is one of the most common formats for sharing documents over the Internet. PDFs can contain text, images, tables, forms, and rich media like videos and animations
Will McGugan: Rich gets Richer

Link: https://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/post/rich-gets-richer/

Since my last post on Rich there have been a number of improvements. Here are the major highlights:
Indeterminate progress bars
Progress bars now have an indeterminate state which displays a pulsing a
Peter Hoffmann: Using turbodbc to access Azure Synapse SQL-on-Demand endpoints

Link: http://peter-hoffmann.com/2020/clients-and-data-access-with-turbodbc-to-azure-synapse-sql-on-demand.html

ODBC access via turbodbc/python
Azure Synapse SQL-on-Demand
pools can be accessed though an odbc compatible client from python.
First you need to grant access to the sql endpoint for an external DB us
Peter Hoffmann: DuckDB vs Azure Synapse SQL-on-Demand with parquet

Link: http://peter-hoffmann.com/2020/duckdb-vs-azure-synapse-sql-on-demand.html

Short Disclaimer: This post is comparing apples to oranges, because
DuckDB is an embedded database designed to execute
analytical SQL queries on your local machine, whereas Azure Synapse
SQL-on-Demand