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Mike Driscoll: Is the Python Community Becoming Toxic?

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2020/08/04/is-the-python-community-becoming-toxic/

The Python community is amazing. I started learning Python over 15 years ago and the community was almost always very supportive in helping me figure things out. However, the past few years there seem
Real Python: Practical Recipes for Working With Files in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/practical-recipes-files/

Python has several built-in modules and functions for handling files. These functions are spread out over several modules such as os, os.path, shutil, and pathlib, to name a few. This course gathers i
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.6.9 : My colab tutorials - parts 008.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2020/08/python-369-my-colab-tutorials-parts-008.html

Today I deal with these two python packages named selenium and chromium-chromedriver.
I used selenium to get pieces of information from webpages.
These examples can be found at my GitHub project colab
Mike Driscoll: Python Malware May be Coming to a Computer Near You

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2020/08/04/python-malware-may-be-coming-to-a-computer-near-you/

Cyborg Security reported recently that malware is starting to appear that has been written using the Python programming language. Traditionally, most malware has been written in compiled languages, su
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #432 (Aug. 4, 2020)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/432

#432 – AUGUST 4, 2020 View in Browser » 4 Powerful Features Python Is Still Missing Python doesn’t have true constants, nor does it implement features like tail recursion optimization that many
Python Anywhere: Introduction to scheduled tasks helper scripts

Link: https://blog.pythonanywhere.com/190/

For all PythonAnywhere users who like to automate their workflow using scripts there’s already the pythonanywhere package which provides an interface for some PythonAnywhere API features.
If you’re on
Dataquest: Python Projects for Beginners (Massive 2020 Update)

Link: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/python-projects-for-beginners/

Learning Python can be difficult. You can spend time reading a textbook or watching videos, but then struggle to actually put what you've learned into practice. Or you might spend a ton of time learni
Andre Roberge: Identifying misleading type hints

Link: https://aroberge.blogspot.com/2020/08/identifying-misleading-type-hints.html

Yesterday on Twitter:For beginners, unintentional type hints can be really confusing.  No SyntaxError, no traceback to guide the beginners ... Still, could Friendly-traceback help?I've already mention
PSF GSoC students blogs: Weekly Check-In #10

Link: https://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/saurabhk122s-blog/weekly-check-in-10-6/

I am on leave till 10th August, so there's nothing to report for this week. But there was no loss of work since I had started coding in the Community Bonding period itself.
Full Stack Python: How to Send SMS Text Messages with Python

Link: https://www.fullstackpython.com/blog/send-sms-text-messages-python.html

Short Message Service (SMS) text messages are ubiquitous for communication
all over the world. It is easy to send SMS text messages from a
Python application using a
web application programming inte
Full Stack Python: Responding to SMS Text Messages with Python & Flask

Link: https://www.fullstackpython.com/blog/respond-sms-text-messages-python-flask.html

Short Message Service (SMS) text messages are
easy to send from Python applications
with a
web application programming interface (API).
Flask applications can also receive incoming text messages an
Real Python: What Are Python Wheels and Why Should You Care?

Link: https://realpython.com/python-wheels/

Python .whl files, or wheels, are a little-discussed part of Python, but they’ve been a boon to the installation process for Python packages. If you’ve installed a Python package using pip, then chanc
PSF GSoC students blogs: Weekly Blog Post | Gsoc'2020 | #10

Link: https://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/shashankjarials-blog/weekly-blog-post-gsoc-2020-10/

Greetings, People of the world!
Got a little late posting this blog. Was stuck with a couple of things but didn't let that prevent me from coding.
1. What did you do this week?
So last week I worked o
PyCharm: Webinar Recording: “Simplify Your Tests With Fixtures” with Oliver Bestwalter

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/h22N_cGgJtA/

Enjoy pytest and curious about fixtures? Last week we hosted Oliver Bestwalter for a webinar on how to use pytest fixtures to simplify your test code. The recording is now available.

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Quansight Labs Blog: Designing with and for developers

Link: https://labs.quansight.org/blog/2020/08/designing-with-and-for-developers/

Open source is notorious for lack of design presence, enough so that my search
to prove this fact has turned up nearly nothing. There’s many ways that such a
gap in community might manifest, but one t
PSF GSoC students blogs: Weekly Check In - 9

Link: https://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/adityaa30s-blog/weekly-check-in-9-8/

What did I do till now?
Last week I completed the ScrapyH2ProxyAgent implementation and added the required tests. I was going through the codebase for hyper-h2 library to get insight on how they imple
Karim Elghamrawy: Python: Sort vs Sorted

Link: https://www.afternerd.com/blog/sort-vs-sorted/

The post Python: Sort vs Sorted appeared first on Afternerd.
PSF GSoC students blogs: Weekly Blog Post #5

Link: https://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/abhaykatherias-blog/weekly-blog-post-5/

Hi everyone  a little late on this blog as I have to go back to college to get my stuff back. I passed the second evaluation, yay,. Till now I have been able to get the module metadata except the lice