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Randy Zwitch: Mirroring an FTP Using lftp and cron

Link: http://randyzwitch.com/mirror-ftp-lftp/

As my Developer Advocate role leads me to doing more and more Sysadmin/Data Engineer type of work, I continuously find myself looking for more efficient ways of copying data folders to where I need th
Guido van Rossum: So you want to learn Python?

Link: http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/05/so-you-want-to-learn-python.html

There's never a lack of books to use for learning Python. I occasionally receive books for review, but I don't have a particularly good yardstick to judge such books by: I find that they all contain s
Catalin George Festila: Windows - test Django version 2.1.1 .

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2018/09/windows-test-django-version-211.html

I used python version 3.6.4 to test the last django framework version. Add your python to path environment variable under Windows O.S.Create your working folder:C:\Python364>mkdir mywebsiteGo to folde
Corey Goldberg: Python - Using Chrome Extensions With Selenium WebDriver

Link: http://coreygoldberg.blogspot.com/2018/09/python-using-chrome-extensions-with.html


When you launch a Chrome browser from Selenium, a fresh temporary profile is created for the browser session. This means that by default, Chrome extensions are not loaded. To use an extension during
Continuum Analytics Blog: TensorFlow in Anaconda

Link: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/tensorflow-in-anaconda/

By Jonathan Helmus TensorFlow is a Python library for high-performance numerical calculations that allows users to create sophisticated deep learning and machine learning applications. Released as ope
NumFOCUS: Public Institutions and Open Source Software (Matthew Rocklin guest blog)

Link: https://numfocus.org/blog/public-institutions-and-open-source-software-matthew-rocklin-guest-blog

The post Public Institutions and Open Source Software (Matthew Rocklin guest blog) appeared first on NumFOCUS.
Yasoob Khalid: Sending & Sniffing WLAN Beacon Frames using Scapy

Link: https://pythontips.com/2018/09/08/sending-sniffing-wlan-beacon-frames-using-scapy/

Hi everyone! Over the summers I did research on Wi-Fi and part of my research involved sending and receiving different kinds of IEEE 802.11 packets. I did most of this stuff using Scapy so I thought w
Nikola: Nikola v8.0.0rc1 is out!

Link: https://getnikola.com/blog/nikola-v800rc1-is-out.html

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate
availability of Nikola v8.0.0rc1. This is the end of the road to Nikola
version 8. Within 48 hours, assuming there are no grave bug
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cxlii) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2018/09/cxlii-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2018-09-08 19:57:14 GMTConverting list of lists into a dictionary of di
Filipe Saraiva: Akademy 2018

Link: http://blog.filipesaraiva.info/?p=1986

Look for your favorite KDE contributor at Akademy 2018 Group Photo
This year I was in Vienna to attend Akademy 2018, the annual KDE world summit. It was my fourth Akademy after Berlin’2012 (in fact, D
PyPy Development: The First 15 Years of PyPy — a Personal Retrospective

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PyPyStatusBlog/~3/yvn69QvEcJ4/the-first-15-years-of-pypy.html

A few weeks ago I (=Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick) gave a keynote at ICOOOLPS in
Amsterdam with the above title. I was very happy to have been given that
opportunity, since a number of our papers have b
Stefan Behnel: What CPython could use Cython for

Link: http://blog.behnel.de/posts/what-cpython-could-use-cython-for.html

There has been a recent discussion about
using Cython for CPython development.
I think this is a great opportunity for the CPython project to make more efficient use of its scarcest resource: develope
Nigel Babu: Moving from pyrax to libcloud: A story in 3 parts

Link: http://nigelb.me/2018-09-10-moving-from-pyrax-to-libcloud.html

Softserve is a service that lets our community loan machines to debug test
failures. They create cloud VMs based on the image that we use for our test
machines. We originally used pyrax to create and