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NumFOCUS: NumFOCUS Hires its President, Andy Terrel, & Launches Four New Initiatives

Link: https://www.numfocus.org/blog/numfocus-hires-andy-terrel-new-initiatives

The post NumFOCUS Hires its President, Andy Terrel, & Launches Four New Initiatives appeared first on NumFOCUS.
The No Title® Tech Blog: [Late] Book review – Python Tricks: The Book, by Dan Bader

Link: https://no-title.victordomingos.com/articles/2018/book_review_python_tricks

This is an interesting book about Python, but not the usual handbook or cookbook style. If you already know the basics and want to discover new details about this programming language, or if you want
Talk Python to Me: #170 Guido van Rossum steps down

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/170/guido-van-rossum-steps-down

This past week we have had a passing of the reigns for Python leadership. Guido van Rossum who created and has been shepherding the language for 30 years has stepped down from decision making around t
PyCharm: PyCharm 2018.2 Release Candidate

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/JCMTX6qp5Zg/

PyCharm 2018.2 is getting closer to its release date, and we’re happy to announce that a release candidate is available for download now.
New in PyCharm

The dot in pytest is no more! If you’re lookin
Test and Code: 44: Mentoring - Nina Zakharenko

Link: http://testandcode.com/44

Nina Zakharenko is a cloud developer advocate at Microsoft focusing on Python. She's also an excellent public speaker. We talk about her experience with mentoring, both being a mentor, and utilizing m
Mike Driscoll: Python 101: Episode #16 – The os Module

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/07/21/python-101-episode-16-the-os-module/


In this episode you will learn about Python’s os module. This episode is based on my book, Python 101, which you can get on Leanpub here https://leanpub.com/python_101 or read online at http://python
Bhishan Bhandari: Idiomatic Python – Writing better Python

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheTaraNights/~3/JikkTylN_s4/

This is a follow-up post of Idiomatic Python – Looping Approaches. The purpose of the article is to highlight on better code and encourage it. Looping over dictionary keys >>> books_price = { ... 'Cle
Bhishan Bhandari: Python Decorators – Python Essentials

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheTaraNights/~3/KMQs1RizOxg/

The intentions of this post is to familiarize the concepts of decorators and encourage it’s use. Python allows this special ability to pass a function as an argument to another function that adds some
EuroPython Society: List of EPS Board Candidates for 2018/2019

Link: https://www.europython-society.org/post/176134445630

At this year’s General Assembly we will vote in a new board of the EuroPython Society for the term 2018/2019.List of Board CandidatesThe EPS bylaws
require one chair and 2 - 8 board members. The follo
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cxxxv) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2018/07/cxxxv-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2018-07-21 21:21:06 GMTWhat is the n parameter of tkinter.mainloop func
Justin Mayer: Python Development Environment on macOS High Sierra

Link: https://hackercodex.com/guide/python-development-environment-on-mac-osx/

While installing Python and Virtualenv on macOS High Sierra can be done several ways, this tutorial will guide you through the process of configuring a stock Mac system into a solid Python development
Philip Semanchuk: A Python 2 to 3 Migration Guide

Link: http://blog.pyspoken.com/2018/02/13/python-2-to-3-migration-guide/

July 2018 update: I’ll be giving a talk based on this guide at PyOhio next week. If you’re there, please come say hello!
It’s not always obvious, but migrating from Python 2 to 3 doesn’t have to be an
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Christopher Neugebauer

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/07/23/pydev-of-the-week-christopher-neugebauer/

This week we welcome Christopher Neugebauer (@chrisjrn) as our PyDev of the Week! Christopher helped organize North Bay Python and PyCon Australia. He is also a fellow of the Python Software Foundatio
Dataquest: Top 20 Python AI and Machine Learning Open Source Projects

Link: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/top-20-python-ai-and-machine-learning-open-source-projects/

Getting into Machine Learning and AI is not an easy task. Many aspiring professionals and enthusiasts find it hard to establish a proper path into the field, given the enormous amount of resources ava
Sylvain Hellegouarch: How Python and Guido got me my first job and many afterwards

Link: http://www.defuze.org/archives/496-how-python-and-guido-got-me-my-first-job-and-many-afterwards.html

Recently, Guido van Rossum, creator and leader of the Python programming language announced, quite out of the blue for the distant pythonista, that he was resigning from his role as the leader of the