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Paolo Amoroso: Reading Impractical Python Projects

Link: http://blog.paoloamoroso.com/2019/09/reading-impractical-python-projects.html

If you experienced the home and personal computing revolution of the early 1980s, you may have read some books that got you hooked up with programming. These books led you through the intellectual adv
Python Insider: Upgrade to pip 20.2, plus, changes coming in 20.3

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonInsider/~3/oWRGYtccsHE/upgrade-pip-20-2-changes-20-3.html

On behalf of the Python Packaging Authority, I am pleased to announce that we have just released pip 20.2, a new version of pip. You can install it by running python -m pip install --upgrade pip.

The
Python⇒Speed: A tableau of crimes and misfortunes: the ever-useful `docker history`

Link: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/docker-history/

If you want to understand a Docker image, there is no more useful tool than the docker history command.
Whether it’s telling you why your image is so large, or helping you understand how a base image
PSF GSoC students blogs: Week 8

Link: https://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/ars-blog/week-8-2/

Just a brief check-in. Setting up a MySQL environment for manual testing on a mac mini and then moving on to tickets #362 and #363.
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.8.5 : PyEphem astronomy library for Python - part 001.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2020/07/python-385-pyephem-astronomy-library.html

About this python package, you can find it from the official website.
PyEphem provides an ephem Python package for performing high-precision astronomy computations. The underlying numeric routines are
Learn PyQt: Creating multiple windows in PyQt5/PySide2

Link: https://www.learnpyqt.com/courses/adanced-ui-features/creating-multiple-windows/


In an earlier tutorial we've already covered how to open dialog windows. These are special windows which (by default) grab the focus of the user, and run their own event loop, effectively blocking th
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #20: Building PDFs in Python with ReportLab

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/20/

Have you wanted to generate advanced reports as PDFs using Python? Maybe you want to build documents with tables, images, or fillable forms. This week on the show we have Mike Driscoll to talk about h
PSF GSoC students blogs: Week 5 Blog Post

Link: https://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/wangjls-blog/week-5-blog-post/

I am not feeling well this week and have asked for leave this week with my mentors. I will catch up with my plan on this weekend or next week. 
Talk Python to Me: #275 Beautiful Pythonic Refactorings

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/275/beautiful-pythonic-refactorings

Do you obsess about writing your code just the right way before you get started? Maybe you have some ugly code on your hands and you need to make it better. Either way, refactoring could be your ticke
Zero to Mastery: Python Monthly 💻🐍 July 2020

Link: https://zerotomastery.io/blog/python-monthly-july-2020/?utm_source=python-rss-feed

8th issue of Python Monthly! Read by 20,000+ Python developers every month. Keeping you up to date with the Python industry ecosystem, without wasting your valuable time.
Janusworx: A Hundred Days of Code, Day 023, Day 24 - Tiny Utility to do comparative DNS Lookups

Link: https://janusworx.com/blog/a-hundred-days-of-code-day-023-day-24-tiny-utility-to-do-comparative-dns-lookups/

Problem - Compare domain lookups, against DoH Servers

Take a list of domains (one per line) from a text file as input, find the IP address for the domain using the standard system level DNS, and then
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (ccxxxviii) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2020/08/ccxxxviii-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2020-08-01 12:19:04 GMTCalculate min and max value of a transition with
Kushal Das: Use DoH over Tor for your Qubes system

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/use-doh-over-tor-for-your-qubes-system.html


I was using my dns-tor-proxy
tool in the AppVMs in my QubesOS system. But, at the same time I was trying to
figure out how to make it the default DNS system for the whole Qubes.
ahf provided me a she
Andriy Kornatskyy: Python ASGI CLI

Link: http://mindref.blogspot.com/2020/08/python-asgi-cli.html

Call ASGI Python application module from command line (without an application server), just like CURL. Interested?



You need to install asgi-cli package:


pip install asgi-cli


Usage

asgi-cli --h
John Cook: Time spent on the moon

Link: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/08/01/time-spent-on-the-moon/


This post will illustrate two things: the amount of time astronauts have spent on the moon, and how to process dates and times in Python.
I was curious how long each Apollo mission spent on the lunar
Glyph Lefkowitz: Lenses

Link: https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2020/08/lenses.html

I suffer from ADHD.
Photo by Taylor Young on Unsplash
I want to be clear: when I say I suffer from this disorder, I am making a
self-diagnosis. I’ve obliquely referred to suffering from ADHD in prev