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Talk Python to Me: #394: Awesome Jupyter Libraries and Extensions in 2022

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/394/awesome-jupyter-libraries-and-extensions-in-2022

Jupyter is an amazing environment for exploring data and generating executable reports with Python. But there are many external tools, extensions, and libraries to make it so much better and make you
PyBites: Building a 500 line API regression test suite

Link: https://pybit.es/articles/building-a-500-line-api-regression-test-suite/

This article appeared as a Pybites email first. If you like it consider joining our friends list for weekly Python, developer and (!) mindset content …
Last year I built a cool API to post code images
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #137: Start Using a Build System & Continuous Integration in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/137/

What advantages can a build system provide for a Python developer? What new skills are required when working with a team of developers? This week on the show, Benjy Weinberger from Toolchain is here t
Mike Driscoll: Countdown to Christmas Sale + Giveaway

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2022/12/16/countdown-to-christmas-sale-giveaway/

Christmas time is a time of giving, at least in my family. I write a lot of Python books and recently started Teach Me Python where I plan to start hosting video courses on the Python programming lang
Peter Hoffmann: Using docker multistage build to build turbodbc with pyarrow support on Debian 11

Link: http://peter-hoffmann.com/2022/using-docker-multistage-build-to-build-turbodbc-with-pyarrow-support-on-debian-11.html

Turbodbc is a Python module to
access relational databases via the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface.
For maximum performance, turbodbc offers built-in NumPy and Apache Arrow support
and int
Brett Cannon: WebAssembly and its platform targets

Link: https://snarky.ca/webassembly-and-its-platform-targets/

When talking about WebAssembly, one of the things that often confuses people is the lack of a great analogy for the various platform targets that WebAssembly supports. This ends up being a bit importa
Python for Beginners: Drop Rows With Nan Values in a Pandas Dataframe

Link: https://www.pythonforbeginners.com/basics/drop-rows-with-nan-values-in-a-pandas-dataframe

Handling nan values is a tedious task while data cleaning. In this article, we will discuss different ways to drop rows with nan values from a pandas dataframe using the dropna() method.
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Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Robert Smallshire

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2022/12/19/pydev-of-the-week-robert-smallshire/

This week we welcome Robert Smallshire (@robsmallshire) as our PyDev of the Week!  Robert is the founder of the Sixty-North consulting company. Robert also produces amazing Python videos for Pluralsig
Python for Beginners: Check for NaN Values in Pandas Python

Link: https://www.pythonforbeginners.com/basics/check-for-nan-values-in-pandas-python

While working with data in python, we often encounter null values or NaN values. In this article, we will discuss different ways to check for nan values or null values in a pandas dataframe or series.
Real Python: Python's "in" and "not in" Operators: Check for Membership

Link: https://realpython.com/python-in-operator/

Python’s in and not in operators allow you to quickly determine if a given value is or isn’t part of a collection of values. This type of check is common in programming, and it’s generally known as a
Matthew Wright: Options to run pandas DataFrame.apply in parallel

Link: https://www.wrighters.io/options-to-run-pandas-dataframe-apply-in-parallel/

A common use case in pandas is to want to apply a function to rows in a DataFrame. For a novice, the temptation can be to iterate through the rows in the DataFrame and pass the data to a function, but
James Bennett: Boring Python: code quality

Link: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2022/dec/19/boring-python-code-quality/

This is the second in a series of posts I intend to write about how to build, deploy, and manage Python applications in as boring a way as possible. In the first post in the series I gave a definition
PyBites: Pybites turns 6 today – 10 highlights + lessons learned

Link: https://pybit.es/articles/pybites-turns-6-today-10-highlights-lessons-learned/

Today Pybites turns 6 years 
We could never have envisioned that our end-of-2016 “Python blog side project” would grow out into a fully fledged business serving thousands of people worldwide!
Here are
S. Lott: Christmas Book Offers

Link: http://slott-softwarearchitect.blogspot.com/2022/12/christmas-book-offers.html

Apple BooksPivot to PythonA Guide for professionals and skilled beginnershttps://books.apple.com/us/book/pivot-to-python/id1586977675 I've recently updated this to fix some cosmetic problems with titl
Real Python: Python Basics: File System Operations

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/python-basics-file-system-operations/

So far, you’ve written programs that get their input from one of two
sources: the user or the program itself. Program output has been limited
to displaying some text in IDLE’s interactive window.
Thes
Python Morsels: Python's "if" statements

Link: https://www.pythonmorsels.com/if-statements/

You can use Python's if, elif, and else blocks to run code only when specific conditions are met.



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Conditional code with if statements
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Wingware: Wing Python IDE Version 9.0.2 - December 20, 2022

Link: https://wingware.com/news/2022-12-20

Wing 9.0.2 speeds up the debugger during module imports, fixes several issues with
match/case, corrects initial directory used with 'python -m', fixes auto-refresh of
version control status, adds comm
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #556 (Dec. 20, 2022)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/556

#556 – DECEMBER 20, 2022 View in Browser » Using a Build System & Continuous Integration in Python What advantages can a build system provide for a Python developer? What new skills are required
ListenData: ChatGPT Isn't a Smart Analyst

Link: https://www.listendata.com/2022/12/limitations-of-ChatGPT.html

ChatGPT has been trending on social media platforms. It has crossed one million users in just a week time. Those who haven't heard about ChatGPT, it's a large language model trained by OpenAI. In simp