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Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2019/04/introducing-our-2019-keystone-sponsor.html

Introducing our 2019 Keystone Sponsor: Microsoft!Our top sponsors — companies who step forward to make the biggest investment in PyCon and its community — not only use Python for their own development
NumFOCUS: NumFOCUS Hires Executive Operations Administrator

Link: https://numfocus.org/blog/numfocus-hires-executive-operations-administrator

The post NumFOCUS Hires Executive Operations Administrator appeared first on NumFOCUS.
Sumana Harihareswara - Cogito, Ergo Sumana: PyCon NA, !!Con, and WisCon

Link: https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2019/04/16/0

I'm back in New York City, and preparing to travel a bit; May is my big conference month this year.

I'll start the month at PyCon North America in Cleveland, Ohio, practically the whole conference, 1
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #364 (April 16, 2019)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/364

#364 – APRIL 16, 2019 View in Browser » Hands-On Python 3 Concurrency With the asyncio Module Learn how to speed up your Python 3 programs using concurrency and the asyncio module in the standar
Trey Hunner: Is it a class or a function? It's a callable!

Link: http://treyhunner.com/2019/04/is-it-a-class-or-a-function-its-a-callable/

If you search course curriculum I’ve written, you’ll often find phrases like “zip function”, “enumerate function”, and “list function”.
Those terms are all technically misnomers.
When I use terms like
codingdirectional: Reverse a number with Python

Link: http://codingdirectional.info/2019/04/17/reverse-a-number-with-python/

In this snippet, we are going to create a python method to reverse the order of a number. This is one of the questions on Codewars. If you enter -123 into the method you will get -321. If you enter 10
Dataquest: Tutorial: Text Classification in Python Using spaCy

Link: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/tutorial-text-classification-in-python-using-spacy/

Learn text classification using linear regression in Python using the spaCy package in this free machine learning tutorial.
The post Tutorial: Text Classification in Python Using spaCy appeared first
codingdirectional: Sum the factorial of a list object with python

Link: http://codingdirectional.info/2019/04/17/sum-the-factorial-of-a-list-object-with-python/

Before we leave CodeWars for a while here is another quick solution to one of the 7 Kyu questions. The question goes like this, given a list consists of numbers, find the total of all the factorials o
Real Python: How to Work With a PDF in Python

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

The Portable Document Format or PDF is a file format that can be used to present and exchange documents reliably across operating systems. While the PDF was originally invented by Adobe, it is now an
Catalin George Festila: Update python modules of 3.73 version.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2019/04/update-python-modules-of-373-version.html

Today we tested an older tool with the new version of python 3.7.3.
This is a tool that will help you update your python modules.
Here's how to install:
C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install pip-review
Col
Davide Moro: Testing metrics thoughts and examples: how to turn lights on and off through MQTT with pytest-play

Link: http://davidemoro.blogspot.com/2019/04/testing-metrics-thoughts-and-examples.html

In this article I'll share some personal thoughts about test metrics and talk about some technologies and tools playing around a real example: how to turn lights on and off through MQTT collecting tes
Vasudev Ram: Python's dynamic nature: sticking an attribute onto an object

Link: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2019/04/pythons-dynamic-nature-sticking.html

- By Vasudev Ram - Online Python training / SQL training / Linux trainingHi, readers,[This is a beginner-level Python post.]Python, being a dynamic language, has some interesting features that some st
The Code Bits: Introduction to Generators in Python

Link: https://thecodebits.com/introduction-to-generators-in-python/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=introduction-to-generators-in-python

In this post, we will learn what generators are, how to create them, how they work and how to use them in Python.
Generator function
Generators are functions that allow us to create iterators in Pytho
Catalin George Festila: About psychopy tool.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2019/04/about-psychopy-tool.html

A good definition for this tool can be found at the Wikipedia website:
2002: PsychoPy was originally written by Peirce as a proof of concept - that a high-level scripting language could generate exper
Stefan Scherfke: Packaging Python inside your organization with GitLab and Conda

Link: https://stefan.sofa-rockers.org/2019/04/18/python-packaging-gitlab-conda/

Python Packaging has recently been
discussed a lot, but the articles usually
only focus on publishing (open source) code to PyPI.
But what do you do when your organization uses Python for in-house dev
Matt Layman: Completing Account Deactivation on Building SaaS with Python and Django

Link: https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2019/completing-account-deactivation/

In the latest episode
of Building SaaS with Python and Django,
we completed the account deactivation workflow
of the Django app.
This included:

Canceling the subscription with Stripe.
Marking the use