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The Digital Cat: Python Mocks: a gentle introduction - Part 1

Link: http://www.thedigitalcatonline.com/blog/2016/03/06/python-mocks-a-gentle-introduction-part-1/

As already stressed in the two introductory posts on TDD (you can find them here) testing requires to write some code that uses the functions and objects you are going to develop. This means that you
Will Kahn-Greene: Bleach: stepping down as maintainer

Link: https://bluesock.org/~willkg/blog/dev/bleach_stepping_down.html


What is it?
Bleach is a Python library for sanitizing
and linkifying text from untrusted sources for safe usage in HTML.


I'm stepping down
In October 2015, I had a conversation with James Socol tha
gamingdirectional: Rotate the mana object

Link: http://gamingdirectional.com/blog/2019/03/02/rotate-the-mana-object/

In this chapter, we will continue to develop the mana object. We will rotate the mana object on each update. If you still remember that we have created an update method under the mana class then in th
codingdirectional: Create a selection combo box for the forex project

Link: http://codingdirectional.info/2019/03/02/create-a-selection-combo-box-for-the-forex-project/

Hello and welcome back to our Forex application project. In this chapter, we will create a combo box which will be filled up with the data returned by the API call from Coinbase. The process to create
Ned Batchelder: Mutmut

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/201903/mutmut.html

Mutation testing is an old idea that I haven’t yet seen work out, but it’s
fascinating. The idea is that your test suite should catch any bugs in your
code, so what if we artificially insert bugs int
Low Kian Seong: A new year and new challenges

Link: https://blog.lowkster.com/2019/03/a-new-year-and-new-challenges.html

It's a new year already. I have this uncharacteristically made some promises to myself. I have set a goal this year to read more, 20 books more to be exact. The promise was solemnised in the goodreads
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (clxvii) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2019/03/clxvii-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2019-03-02 21:06:04 GMTPandas: How to group by a value in column when t
codingdirectional: Search for any particular currency pair within the Forex data

Link: http://codingdirectional.info/2019/03/03/search-for-any-particular-currency-pair-within-the-forex-data/

Before we start this chapter I just want to tell you people that I have extended this website for another year by paying the full year rent for web hosting. The goal I start this website is not to mak
PyBites: PyBites Twitter Digest - Issue 03, 2019

Link: https://pybit.es/twitter_digest_201903.html

Check out Nina's code and slides on programming hardware with LEDs and Python
Thanks for coming to my talk at #PyCascades2019! To learn more about programming hardware and LEDs with Python, ch… https:
Jahongir Rahmonov: How to write a Python web framework. Part III.

Link: http://rahmonov.me/posts/write-python-framework-part-three/

Check out Part I here
Check out Part II here

A little reminder that this series is based on the Alcazar framework that I am writing for
learning purposes. If you liked this series, show some love by
Zero-with-Dot (Oleg Żero): Hosting private pip packages using Azure Artifacts

Link: https://zerowithdot.com/private-pip-azure/

Introduction
Imagine a typical situation, in which you build some production ready data pipeline that requires several levels of data processing.
The ways you process the data is subjugated to constan
Python Insider: Python 2.7.16 released

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonInsider/~3/Uqm3p_KrtF8/python-2716-released.html

A bug fix release in the 2.7 series, 2.7.16, is not available for download.
codingdirectional: Tidy up the user interface of the Forex application

Link: http://codingdirectional.info/2019/03/04/tidy-up-the-user-interface-of-the-forex-application/

Hello and welcome back to this Forex application project. After all the hard work in the previous chapter we will go lightly in this chapter by tidying up the user interface of this Forex application.
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Mariusz Felisiak

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/03/04/pydev-of-the-week-mariusz-felisiak/

This week we welcome Mariusz Felisiak (@MariuszFelisiak) as our PyDev of the Week! Mariusz is a core developer of the Django web framework and a maintainer of the django-request package. You can foll
Python Insider: Python 3.5.7rc1 and Python 3.4.10rc1 are now available

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonInsider/~3/Mu9J5e4TQCg/python-357rc1-and-python-3410rc1-are.html

Python 3.5.7rc1 and Python 3.4.10rc1 are now available.
You can download Python 3.5.7rc1 here, and you can download Python 3.4.10rc1 here.
gamingdirectional: Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

Link: http://gamingdirectional.com/blog/2019/03/04/our-greatest-glory-is-not-in-never-falling-but-in-rising-every-time-we-fall/

Welcome back to this new pygame project. In this chapter we will win and get to the next level of the game, if we lose then we will return to the beginning of that level. In the previous chapter, we h
Codementor: Connecting Raspberry Pi to the Alibaba Cloud IoT Platform Using Python

Link: https://www.codementor.io/alibabacloud/connecting-raspberry-pi-to-the-alibaba-cloud-iot-platform-using-python-sqc8jx1gd

Join us at the Alibaba Cloud ACtivate Online Conference on March 5-6 to challenge assumptions, exchange ideas, and explore what is possible through digital transformation.
Written by Hongfeng Liu,...
Zato Blog: SFTP connections

Link: https://zato.io/blog/posts/sftp.html

Zato
has had support for
FTP/FTPS
since its inception. In Zato 3.1+, SFTP is also an option to consider for file transfer and this post offers an introduction to the functionality.
Web-admin
For build
Matt Layman: Ansible Cranked to 11

Link: https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2019/ansible-cranked-to-11/

On the Building SaaS with Python and Django Twitch stream,
I tried out a new tool
to see if it would improve my deploy time.
We configured Ansible to use Mitogen
and it was an incredible success.
With