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Rene Dudfield: 🐱🏍 — the first pygame 2 community game. Starting now! Are you in?

Link: http://renesd.blogspot.com/2018/11/first-pygame-2-community-game-starting.html

What is a 🐱🏍? *[0].There was this email thread on the pygame mailing list."About Pygame development".One topic of that conversation was doing a community game in there for reasons(see below).I would
NumFOCUS: This #GivingTuesday, We’re Saying “Thank You” To Our Supporters

Link: https://numfocus.org/blog/giving-tuesday-thank-you

The post This #GivingTuesday, We’re Saying “Thank You” To Our Supporters appeared first on NumFOCUS.
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #344 (Nov. 27, 2018)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/344

Guido van Rossum Updates, Automated Testing, and More
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Django Weblog: The DSF Board elections - what about you?

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/nov/27/dsf-board-why-stand/

I'm standing down from my position on the Django Software Foundation Board, having served for three years as the DSF's Vice-President (it's a nice role to have - but not nearly as grand as it sounds).
Vladimir Iakolev: Measuring community opinion: subreddits reactions to a link

Link: https://nvbn.github.io/2018/11/28/community-opinion/

As everyone knows a lot of subreddits are opinionated, so I thought that it might be
interesting to measure the opinion of different subreddits opinions. Not trying to start
a holy war I’ve specifical
John Cook: Searching for Mersenne primes

Link: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/11/28/searching-for-mersenne-primes/

The nth Mersenne number is
Mn = 2n – 1.
A Mersenne prime is a Mersenne number which is also prime. So far 50 have been found [1].
A necessary condition for Mn to be prime is that n is prime, so search
Matthew Rocklin: Support Python 2 with Cython

Link: https://matthewrocklin.com/blog//work/2018/11/28/python-2-and-cython

Summary
Many popular Python packages are dropping support for Python 2 next month.
This will be painful for several large institutions.
Cython can provide a temporary fix by letting us compile a Pytho
Real Python: Python Community Interview With Emily Morehouse

Link: https://realpython.com/interview-emily-morehouse/

I’m very pleased to be joined this week by Emily Morehouse.
Emily is one of the newest additions to the CPython core developer team, and the founder and director of engineering of Cuttlesoft. Emily a
Stack Abuse: Search Algorithms in Python

Link: https://stackabuse.com/search-algorithms-in-python/

Introduction
Searching for data stored in different data structures is a crucial part of pretty much every single application.
There are many different algorithms available to utilize when searching,
Stack Abuse: Saving Text, JSON, and CSV to a File in Python

Link: https://stackabuse.com/saving-text-json-and-csv-to-a-file-in-python/

Saving data to a file is one of the most common programming tasks you may come across in your developer life.
Generally, programs take some input and produce some output. There are numerous cases in
PyCharm: Let PyCharm Do Your Import Janitorial Work

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/MZfSoj-Oqig/

What’s something you do all the time in Python? Import modules from packages. Not just that, you also fiddle with the formatting to make the style nannies happy. And remove unused imports. And bunches
Django Weblog: Report from PyCon Zimbabwe 2018

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/nov/28/report-pycon-zimbabwe-2018/

The 3rd edition of Pycon Zimbabwe was held from the 19th to the 20th of October, 2018 under the theme: “For the community, by the community”. The conference was hosted at Cresta Oasis Hotel in Harare,
RMOTR: Google Sheets with Python (live demo)

Link: https://blog.rmotr.com/google-sheets-with-python-live-demo-921fd38087ca?source=rss----2e274f91448--python

TL;DR: You can interact with Google Spreadsheets (read, write, etc) from Python in a super simple way by using https://github.com/burnash/gspread Python library. Want to jump right into code? Give it
Simple is Better Than Complex: Advanced Form Rendering with Django Crispy Forms

Link: https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/tutorial/2018/11/28/advanced-form-rendering-with-django-crispy-forms.html

[Django 2.1.3 / Python 3.6.5 / Bootstrap 4.1.3]
In this tutorial we are going to explore some of the Django Crispy Forms features to handle advanced/custom forms
rendering. This blog post started as a
Python Celery - Weekly Celery Tutorials and How-tos: Kubernetes for Python Developers: Part 1

Link: https://www.distributedpython.com/2018/11/28/kubernetes-python-developers-part-1/

Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerised apps.
Kubernetes helps you to run, track and monitor containers at scale.
Codementor: Learning Python: From Zero to Hero

Link: https://www.codementor.io/leandrotk100/learning-python-from-zero-to-hero-pqmxb3711

First of all, what is Python? According to its creator, Guido van Rossum, Python is a:
“high-level programming language, and its core design philosophy is all about code readability and a syntax...
Moshe Zadka: Common Mistakes about Generational Garbage Collection

Link: https://orbifold.xyz/garbage.html

(Thanks to Nelson Elhage and Saivickna Raveendran
for their feedback on earlier drafts.
All mistakes that remain are mine.)
When talking about garbage collection,
the notion of "generational collectio