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Evennia: Evennia in pictures

Link: http://evennia.blogspot.com/2016/05/evennia-in-pictures.html

This article describes the MU* development system Evennia using pictures!  This article was originally written for Optional Realities. Since it is no longer available to read on OR, I'm reposting it i
PyBites: PyBites Twitter Digest - Issue 27, 2018

Link: https://pybit.es/twitter_digest_201827.html

One more day for PSF Fellowship Nominations! Get them in ASAP!
Do you know someone who has served the Python community thru extraordinary efforts? Nominate them to be a PSF Fello… https://t.co/cNzFpaa
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Jessica Ingrassellino

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/08/20/pydev-of-the-week-jessica-ingrassellino/

This week we welcome Jessica Ingrassellino (@jess_ingrass) as our PyDev of the Week. Jessica is the founder of teachcode.org, where you can schedule teaching classes with Jessica. She is also the auth
Dusty Phillips: Computer Vision in Three Lines of Code plus a bunch more lines

Link: https://dusty.phillips.codes/2018/08/15/computer-vision-in-three-lines-of-code-plus-a-bunch-more-lines/

My wife and I both have a tendency to leave the garage door open. You’re in and out, grabbing garden tools or supplies, and at the end of the day you enter the house through the back door and forget t
Matthew Rocklin: Cloud Lock-in and Open Standards

Link: https://matthewrocklin.com/blog//work/2018/08/19/cloud-lockin-and-open-standards

This post is from conversations with Peter Wang,
Yuvi Panda, and several others. Yuvi expresses
his own views on this topic on his
blog.
Summary
When moving to the cloud we should be mindful to avoid
Real Python: Sets in Python

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

Perhaps you recall learning about sets and set theory at some point in your mathematical education. Maybe you even remember Venn diagrams:

If this doesn’t ring a bell, don’t worry! This tutorial sho
Vasudev Ram: Nice Vim trick for Python code

Link: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2018/08/nice-vim-trick-for-python-code.html

By Vasudev RamHere's a Vim editing trick which can be useful for indenting Python code (in some situations):Let's say I have this program, p1bad.py:$ type p1bad.pydef foo(args):print "in foo"def bar()
PyCon.DE & PyData Karlsruhe: PyLadies X Micropython @ PyConDE

Link: http://de.pycon.org/blog/pyladies-x-micropython-pyconde/

As part of PyCon DE 18 PyLadies and MicroPython will be running a
beginner friendly full day hands-on workshop on MicroPython and the
Internet of Things. We welcome anyone with existing programming kn
Continuum Analytics Blog: Anaconda Funded by Citi Ventures

Link: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/company-blog/anaconda-funded-citi-ventures/

Scott Collison, CEO Today, we’re incredibly happy to announce funding from Citi Ventures and welcome them as a new investor and partner. Following its initial investment in Anaconda and led by a belie
Python Anywhere: System update this morning

Link: http://blog.pythonanywhere.com/164/

We deployed a new version of PythonAnywhere this morning. Everything went pretty smoothly; there were a few problems with some hosted websites shortly afterwards (an error in a load-distribution alg
Doug Hellmann: Planting Acorns

Link: http://feeds.doughellmann.com/~r/doughellmann/python/~3/yqsS_rCc8Ho/

This post is based on the closing keynote I gave for PyTennessee in February 2018, where I talked about how the governance of an open source project impacts  the health of the project, and some lesson
Randy Zwitch: Creating a MapD ODBC Connection in RStudio Server

Link: http://randyzwitch.com/mapd-odbc-rstudio-server/


In my post Installing MapD on Microsoft Azure, I showed how to install MapD Community Edition on Microsoft Azure, using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as the base image. One thing I glossed over during the firewal
Mike Driscoll: Python 101: Episode #21 – Using Threads

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/08/22/python-101-episode-21-using-threads/


In this screencast, you will learn the basics of using Python’s threading module. If reading is more your thing, then check out the chapter this is based on over at http://python101.pythonlibrary.org
PyCharm: PyCharm 2018.2.2

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/W4FGHvMSCMw/

PyCharm 2018.2.2 is now available, with some small improvements. Get it now from our Website. If you’re still on PyCharm 2018.1, we’ve also got a release candidate for our new bugfix update PyCharm 20
Real Python: Primer on Python Decorators

Link: https://realpython.com/primer-on-python-decorators/

In this tutorial on decorators, we’ll look at what they are and how to create and use them. Decorators provide a simple syntax for calling higher-order functions.
By definition, a decorator is a funct