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PyBites: 2 years of PyBites, Our Pythonic Journey and the Creation of an Awesome Community

Link: https://pybit.es/special-pybites-2years.html


There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man. - Sean Connery



You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. - Zig Ziglar

Today marks exactly 2 years sin
Ned Batchelder: Advent of code presentation

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/201812/advent_of_code_presentation.html

At Boston Python last night, I did a presentation about solutions to a particular
Advent of Code puzzle.
If you haven’t seen Advent of Code, give it a look. A new puzzle each day
in December
codingdirectional: Convert an image from one format to another with pillow

Link: http://codingdirectional.info/2018/12/20/convert-an-image-from-one-format-to-another-with-pillow/

Hello again and in this article, we will continue to explore what else can the pillow module do besides displaying a picture on the screen as we have already seen it before in the previous article. In
The Digital Cat: Clean Architectures in Python: the book

Link: http://blog.thedigitalcatonline.com/blog/2018/12/20/cabook/

I'm excited to announce that the success of the post on clean architectures encouraged me to expand the subject and to write a book that I titled "Clean Architectures in Python. A practical approach t
Mike Driscoll: Python 101: Episode #39 – Python wheels

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/12/20/python-101-episode-39-python-wheels/


In this screencast you will learn about Python wheels and how to make your own. A Python wheel is a packaging format that allows installing a package without the need for compiling or building.
You c
Stack Abuse: Python Logging Basics

Link: https://stackabuse.com/python-logging-basics/

Introduction
Logging helps you keep track of events happening during the execution of your code, which can then be used in the future for debugging purposes. It provides a better picture of the flow o
PyCharm: Webinar: “Live Development of a PyCharm Plugin” with Joachim Ansorg

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/EwubWc3K9rM/

PyCharm comes with a lot of functionality, yet perhaps something you’d like is missing. Luckily it’s made to be enhanced by plugins to be suitable for a much wider range of users. This webinar with no
Python Software Foundation: Upcoming PyPI Improvements for 2019

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/UJLhXUl_Le8/upcoming-pypi-improvements-for-2019.html


The Python Package Index (PyPI) is far and away the largest and most visible service that the Python Software Foundation (PSF) supports for the Python community. Throughout the project’s 16 year hist
Python Anywhere: Slow scheduled tasks after yesterday's system update

Link: https://blog.pythonanywhere.com/174/

After our system update yesterday, there was a period when some people's scheduled tasks were running slowly. This is an update on what caused the issue and what we did to fix it.
The slowdown
Differ
Toshio Kuratomi: Python, signal handlers, and exceptions

Link: https://anonbadger.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/python-signal-handlers-and-exceptions/

Never ever, ever raise a regular exception in a Python signal handler.
This is probably the best advice that I had never heard.  But after looking into an initial analysis of a timeout decorator bug i
Mahmoud Hashemi: Awesome Python Applications

Link: http://sedimental.org/awesome_python_applications.html

What we can learn from 180+ case studies on successfully shipping Python software.
If you're reading this (or hearing
this), you read and write code, probably
Python. And for all the code you've shipp
Ned Batchelder: A thing I learned about Python recursion

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/201812/a_thing_i_learned_about_python_recursion.html

Working on a programming challenge, I was surprised by something. I built
a tree structure with a recursive function. Then I tried to use a recursive
function to sum up some values across th
The Digital Cat: Python 3 OOP Part 4 - Polymorphism

Link: http://blog.thedigitalcatonline.com/blog/2014/08/21/python-3-oop-part-4-polymorphism/

This post is available as an IPython Notebook here
Good Morning, Polymorphism¶
The term polymorphism, in the OOP lingo, refers to the ability of an object to adapt the code to the type of the data it
Test and Code: 59: Genesynth, nox, urllib3, & PyCascades - Thea Flowers

Link: https://testandcode.com/59

Thea Flowers is a Pythonista and open source advocate. She helps empower developers of all backgrounds and experience levels using Python and open source software and hardware.
Thea is the creator of
Stack Abuse: Python Nested Functions

Link: https://stackabuse.com/python-nested-functions/

What is a Nested Function?
Functions are one of the "first-class citizens" of Python, which means that functions are at the same level as other Python objects like integers, strings, modules, etc. The
Django Weblog: DSF calls for applicants for a Django Fellow

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/dec/21/django-fellow-applicants/

After ten years of contributing to Django, four of which were paid as part of the Django Fellowship program, Tim Graham has decided to step down as a Django Fellow this spring to explore other things.
Catalin George Festila: Python Qt5 - simple draw with QPainter.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2018/12/python-qt5-simple-draw-with-qpainter.html

Using the QPainter is more complex than a simple example. I try to create a simple example in order to have a good look at how can be used.The main goal was to understand how can have the basic elemen
Anarcat: December 2018 report: archiving Brazil, calendar and LTS

Link: https://anarc.at/blog/2018-12-21-report/

Last two months free software work
Keen readers probably noticed that I didn't produce a report in
November. I am not sure why, but I couldn't find the time to do
so. When looking back at those past t
Trey Hunner: Why you should be using pathlib

Link: http://treyhunner.com/2018/12/why-you-should-be-using-pathlib/

When I discovered Python’s new pathlib module a few years ago, I initially wrote it off as being a slightly more awkward and unnecessarily object-oriented version of the os.path module.
I was wrong.
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