Anwesha Das: PyLadies at PyCon

Link: http://anweshadas.in/pyladies-at-pycon-2/

In 2013, I was going through PyCon photos. The album was full of pictures of very serious looking geeks engrossed in their favorite back and green screen. Suddenly I saw the photos of people laughing

Semaphore Community: Getting Started with Mocking in Python

Link: https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/getting-started-with-mocking-in-python

This article is brought with ❤ to you by Semaphore.Introduction
Mocking is simply the act of replacing the part of the application
you are testing with a dummy version of that part called a mock.
Inst

Anwesha Das: Is PyCon 2018 your first PyCon?

Link: http://anweshadas.in/is-pycon-2018-your-first-pycon/

Is PyCon 2018 your first PyCon? Then you must have had a sleepless night. You must be thinking “I will be lost in the gathering of 3500 people.” There should be a lot of mixed emotions and anticipatio

Full Stack Python: Monitoring Django Projects with Rollbar

Link: https://www.fullstackpython.com/monitor-django-projects-web-apps-rollbar.html

One fast way to scan for exceptions and errors in your
Django web application projects is to add a few lines of
code to include a hosted monitoring tool.
In this tutorial we will learn to add the
Rol

Peter Bengtsson: Always return namespaces in Django REST Framework

Link: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/always-return-namespaces-in-django-rest-framework

By default, when you hook up a model to Django REST Framework and run a query in JSON format, what you get is a list. E.g.
For GET localhost:8000/api/mymodel/

[
{"id": 1, "name": "Foo"},
{"id":

Codementor: Preferable tools for machine learning - Python - MatLab - R

Link: https://www.codementor.io/blacksand/preferable-tools-for-machine-learning-python-matlab-r-jfozzpphz

AI Q&A sites and Data Science forums are buzzing with the same questions over and over again : I’m new in data science, what language should I learn? What’s the best language for machine...

Codementor: Launching an AWS MySQL server and importing data from csv files (for free!)

Link: https://www.codementor.io/michaeldu/launching-an-aws-mysql-server-and-importing-data-from-csv-files-for-free-jfpcu409p

Guide for importing data from csv files to AWS RDS.

Mike Driscoll: PyCon 2018 – Conference Day 1 (May 11)

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/12/pycon-2018-conference-day-1-may-11/

PyCon 2018 in Cleveland, Ohio kicked off their first conference day with an introduction from one of Cleveland’s natives, Ernest W. Durbin III. Then we moved on to the keynote of the morning which was

Fabio Zadrozny: Howto launch and debug in VSCode using the debug adapter protocol (part 2)

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/pydev/~3/cj5dn6t4n5k/howto-launch-and-debug-in-vscode-using_12.html

Ok, after the basic infracstructure, the next thing to do is actually launch some program without worrying about the debugger, so, we'll just run a program without being in debug mode to completion, s

Python Bytes: #77 You Don't Have To Be a Workaholic To Win

Link: https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/77/you-don-t-have-to-be-a-workaholic-to-win

Talk Python to Me: #161 Django 2.0

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/161/django-2.0

Django has reached a major milestone with its 2.0 release. This puts legacy Python (that is Python 2) fully in the rear-view mirror and brings some nice new features to the framework.

Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cxxv) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2018/05/cxxv-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2018-05-12 21:53:40 GMTWhy does "test".count('') return 5? - [11/2]Pyth

Python Does What?!: Captain, the python grammar can't take anymore!

Link: http://www.pythondoeswhat.com/2018/05/captain-python-grammar-cant-take-anymore.html

The expressions are going to tear themselves to pieces!>>> 'a'       .strip    (    ) [    0 ]'a'

Amit Saha: A demo plugin based Python code analyser

Link: https://echorand.me/a-demo-plugin-based-python-code-analyser.html

A few weeks back I wrote a analyser for Apache Thrift IDL in Python. We used it to enforce
some code review guidelines. When we hooked it onto arcanist lint engine, we could give feedback to developer

Dan Crosta: Now Seeking PyGotham Program Committee Members

Link: https://late.am/post/2018/05/13/seeking-pygotham-program-committee-members.html


marc thiele
Last year’s PyGotham had a great program committee of four organizers and
eight volunteers. Unfortunately due to the constrained timeline of the 2017
conference and everyone’s individual

Amit Saha: Video: PYCON US 2018 Talk - Counter, Gauge, Oh my!

Link: https://echorand.me/video-pycon-us-2018-talk-counter-gauge-oh-my.html

The video for my PyCon talk - "Counter, Gauge, Oh My!" is up:


The accompanying git repository is here and has
the demos, links to some of my related articles and other resources.
If you have any fee

Nikola: Nikola v8.0.0b2 is out!

Link: https://getnikola.com/blog/nikola-v800b2-is-out.html

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate
availability of Nikola v8.0.0b2. This release fixes some bugs found in
v8.0.0b1, and adds a few new appearance features (featured p

Mike Driscoll: PyCon 2018 – Conference Day 2 (May 12)

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/13/pycon-2018-conference-day-2-may-12/

Day two of PyCon 2018 was kicked off with a few lightning talks. Next up were the keynotes. The first keynote was given by Ying Li from Docker. She spent her keynote talking about good security practi

Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Anthony Shaw

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/14/pydev-of-the-week-anthony-shaw/

This week we welcome Anthony Shaw (@anthonypjshaw) as our PyDev of the Week! Anthony is involved in several open source projects. You can read up on all of them over on his website. He also has a blog