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Nikola: Nikola v8.3.1 is out!

Link: https://getnikola.com/blog/nikola-v831-is-out.html

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate
availability of Nikola v8.3.1. This release fixes some small bugs,
including some introduced by the new Nikola Plugin Manager.
The
Real Python: Python's unittest: Writing Unit Tests for Your Code

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

The Python standard library ships with a testing framework named unittest, which you can use to write automated tests for your code. The unittest package has an object-oriented approach where test cas
Zero to Mastery: Python Monthly Newsletter 💻🐍

Link: https://zerotomastery.io/blog/python-monthly-newsletter-april-2024/?utm_source=python-rss-feed

53rd issue of Andrei Neagoie's must-read monthly Python Newsletter: Whitehouse Recommends Python, Memory Footprint, Let's Talk About Devin, and much more. Read the full newsletter to get up-to-date wi
PyCon: Meet PyCon US Keynote Speakers

Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2024/04/meet-pycon-us-keynote-speakers.html

We can’t wait to welcome Jay Miller, Kate Chapman, Simon Willison, and Sumana Harihareswara to our stage as PyCon US keynote speakers this year.We asked each of our keynote speakers: What excites them
Robin Wilson: What’s the largest building in Southampton? Find out with 5 lines of code

Link: https://blog.rtwilson.com/whats-the-largest-building-in-southampton-find-out-with-5-lines-of-code/

Recently I became suddenly curious about the sizes of buildings in Southampton, UK, where I live. I don’t know what triggered this sudden curiosity, but I wanted to know what the largest buildings in
Mike Driscoll: How to Watermark a Graph with Matplotlib

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2024/04/30/how-to-watermark-a-graph-with-matplotlib/

Matplotlib is one of the most popular data visualization packages for the Python programming language. It allows you to create many different charts and graphs. This tutorial focuses on adding a “wate
Python Bytes: #381 Python Packages in the Oven

Link: https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/381/python-packages-in-the-oven

<strong>Topics covered in this episode:</strong><br>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://wasmer.io/posts/py2wasm-a-python-to-wasm-compiler"><strong>Announcing py2wasm: A Python to Wasm compiler</strong></a></
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #627 (April 30, 2024)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/627

#627 – APRIL 30, 2024 View in Browser » PEP 686: Make UTF-8 Mode Default This Python Enhancement Proposal outlines making UTF-8 the default throughout Python. This takes the addition of Unicode
PyCharm: PyCharm 2024.1.1 Is Here! AI Assistant in Community Edition, Enhanced Endpoints Tool Window, and Navigation and Refactoring Across Notebooks and Scripts

Link: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2024/04/pycharm-2024-1-1/

Enhancements in the Endpoints tool window, extended GitHub gists support for notebooks, and navigation and refactoring across notebooks and scripts – these are just some of the improvements you’ll fin
Real Python: Python Sequences: A Comprehensive Guide

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

A phrase you’ll often hear is that everything in Python is an object, and every object has a type. This points to the importance of data types in Python. However, often what an object can do is more i
Ed Crewe: Software Engineering Hiring and Firing

Link: http://edcrewe.blogspot.com/2024/04/software-engineering-hiring-and-firing.html

The jump in interest rates to the highest level in over 20 years that hit in summer 2023 for the US, UK and many other countries is still impacting the Software industry. Rates may be due to drop soon
Anarcat: Tor migrates from Gitolite/GitWeb to GitLab

Link: https://anarc.at/blog/2024-05-01-gitolite-gitlab-migration/

Note: I've been awfully silent here for the past ... (checks notes)
oh dear, 3 months! But that's not because I've been idle, quite the
contrary, I've been very busy but just didn't have time to write
Talk Python to Me: #460: Dropbase: Build Internal Tools with Python

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/460/dropbase-build-internal-tools-with-python

Do you find yourself or your team building internal apps frequently for your company? Are you familiar with the term "forms over data"? They are super empowering for your org but they can be pretty re
Real Python: Quiz: The Python calendar Module

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python-calendar-module/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of creating calendars in Python using the calendar module.
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit the fundamental functions and methods provided by t
Mike Driscoll: The Python Show Podcast Ep 39 – Buttondown – A Python SaaS with Justin Duke

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2024/05/02/the-python-show-podcast-ep-39-buttondown-a-python-saas-with-justin-duke/


In this episode, we invite the founder of Buttondown, a Python-based Software as a Service (SaaS) application for creating and managing newsletters.
Mike Driscoll, the host of the show, chats with Ju
Python Morsels: Variables are pointers in Python

Link: https://www.pythonmorsels.com/variables-are-pointers/

Python's variables are not buckets that contain objects; they're pointers. Assignment statements don't copy: they point a variable to a value (and multiple variables can "point" to the same value).