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Vladimir Iakolev: Extracting popular topics from subreddits

Link: https://nvbn.github.io/2019/01/07/discussed-topics/

Continuing playing with Reddit data, I thought that it might be fun to extract
discussed topics from subreddits. My idea was: get comments from a
subreddit, extract ngrams, calculate counts of ngrams,
Matt Layman: Local web development vs Vagrant vs Docker: What’s right for you?

Link: https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2019/web-development-environments/

What tools do you use to build your web applications? Your choice matters a lot because you’ll spend a lot of time working in that environment.
If you make a poor choice, you’ll be stuck with somethin
Janusworx: William Vincent’s list of programming books for 2019

Link: https://janusworx.com/william-vincents-list-of-programming-books-for-2019.html

Will Vincent, author of Django for Beginners and Rest APIs with Django has his list of book recommendations for the year.
Read the latest posts on his website to get at them.
If you are a learner li
codingdirectional: Calculate the angle of the sun

Link: http://codingdirectional.info/2019/01/08/calculate-the-angle-of-the-sun/

Hello, today I have almost completed all the basic questions on py.checkio.org and are ready to move into the real game logic programming. One of the questions I have solved today is the question whic
EuroPython: EuroPython 2019: Kicking off the organization

Link: https://blog.europython.eu/post/181832728472

europythonsociety:
Today, we’re happy to announce our pre-launch website under the official EuroPython 2019 URL:
https://ep2019.europython.eu/
Dates and Venues


EuroPython will be held from July 8-14
Speed Matters: fastlogging

Link: https://brmmm3.github.io/posts/2019/01/08/fastlogging/

When I was working on a bigger project which does lot’s of logging I determined that the standard logging
module in Python is pretty slow. So I decided to write my own, much faster logging module and
PyBites: Code Challenge 59 - Analyze Podcast Transcripts with NLTK - Part II

Link: https://pybit.es/codechallenge59.html


There is an immense amount to be learned simply by tinkering with things. - Henry Ford

Hey Pythonistas, in this challenge you will expand on the work of PCC58, doing some natural language processing
PyBites: Code Challenge 60 - Working With PDF Files in Python

Link: https://pybit.es/codechallenge60.html


There is an immense amount to be learned simply by tinkering with things. - Henry Ford

Hey Pythonistas, in this challenge you will learn how to work with PDF documents. Enjoy!
The Challenge
For the
codingdirectional: Resize video with combo box

Link: http://codingdirectional.info/2019/01/08/resize-video-with-combo-box/

Hello and welcome back, if you have already read the previous article about the creation of the video resizing application then this one is the improved version. In this revised version, I have includ
Djangostars: What to Consider When Building the Backend for a Location-Based Service

Link: https://djangostars.com/blog/building-backend-location-based-service/

If you make a quick review of apps in various categories — healthcare, games, finance, — it will show that the device’s location plays a bigger role than whoever imagined. Services may use location da
PyCon: Eighth Annual PyLadies Auction at PyCon 2019

Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2019/01/eighth-annual-pyladies-auction-at-pycon.html

Photo Courtesy of Mike PirnatPyLadies is an international mentorship community for women that use Python. Started with the help of a grant provided by The Python Software Foundation (PSF)  in 2011, Py
Peter Bengtsson: Use vars() to send an argparse Namespace into a function in Python

Link: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/vars-argparse-namespace-into-a-function

You can use vars() to convert an argparse.Namespace into a dict to send into a function.
Mike Driscoll: Python 101: Episode #40 – Creating Executables with bbfreeze

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/01/08/python-101-episode-40-creating-executables-with-bbfreeze/

In this screencast, we will learn how to turn your Python code into a Windows executable file using the bbfreeze project.



You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book o
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #350 (Jan. 8, 2019)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/350

#350 – JANUARY 8, 2019 View in Browser » The Ultimate Guide to Python Type Checking In this guide, you’ll look at Python type checking. Traditionally, types have been handled by the Python inter
Python Insider: Python 3.7.2 and 3.6.8 are now available

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonInsider/~3/o5ROzg9M8NY/python-372-and-368-are-now-available.html

Python 3.7.2 and 3.6.8 are now available.  Python 3.7.2 is the next maintenance release of Python 3.7, the latest feature release of Python.  You can find Python 3.7.2 here:



    https://www.python.
codingdirectional: Looping the video with ffmpeg and python

Link: http://codingdirectional.info/2019/01/09/looping-the-video-with-ffmpeg-and-python/

In this article, we will continue to develop the video editing application which we have started a few days ago. In this chapter, we are going to loop the original video twice besides resizing it as b
Moshe Zadka: Checking in JSON

Link: https://orbifold.xyz/check-in-json.html

JSON is a useful format.
It might not be ideal for hand-editing,
but it does have the benefit that it
can
be hand-edited,
and
it is easy enough to manipulate programmatically.
For this reason,
it is l