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Continuum Analytics Blog: Anaconda’s Response to DataCamp’s CEO and Board of Directors

Link: https://www.anaconda.com/anaconda-response-to-datacamps-ceo-and-board-of-directors/

DataCamp has been a business partner of our company for almost two years. So we were shocked and saddened by the recent allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior and retaliatory firings made agains
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Remote Python Development in Visual Studio Code

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/remote-python-development-in-visual-studio-code/

Today at PyCon 2019, Microsoft’s Python and Visual Studio Code team announced remote development in Visual Studio Code, enabling Visual Studio Code developers to work in development setups where their
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.7.3 and Django CMS.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2019/05/python-373-and-django-cms.html

From official www.django-cms.org:
django CMS was originally conceived by web developers frustrated with the technical and security limitations of other systems. Its lightweight core makes it easy to i
Talk Python to Me: #210 Making the most out of in-person training

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/210/making-the-most-out-of-in-person-training

How do you stay up on your Python skills. Many of us are self-starters and good at learning on our own or online with the video courses like the ones we have over at Talk Python. But sometimes, having
Wingware Blog: Using Multiple Selections in Wing Python IDE to Avoid Repetitive Code Editing Tasks

Link: https://wingware.com/blog/multi-selection

In this issue of Wing Tips we take a look at making multiple concurrent
selections on the editor, in order to apply a single edit simultaneously to several parts
of code.
The most common way to make m
Stack Abuse: Python for NLP: Getting Started with the StanfordCoreNLP Library

Link: https://stackabuse.com/python-for-nlp-getting-started-with-the-stanfordcorenlp-library/

This is the ninth article in my series of articles on Python for NLP. In the previous article, we saw how Python's Pattern library can be used to perform a variety of NLP tasks ranging from tokenizati
Reuven Lerner: Get codes + slides from my “Practical Decorators” talk from PyCon 2019

Link: https://lerner.co.il/2019/05/03/pycon-practical-decorators-code-and-slides/

Earlier today, I presented my “Practical Decorators” talk at PyCon 2019, about decorators in Python. What fun!
(When the video goes up on YouTube, I’ll add it to this blog post.)
If you want to get th
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.7.3 : Try Ethereum with web3.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2019/05/python-373-try-ethereum-with-web3.html

Today I tested the web3 python module.
This is the Ethereum python module.
More about this python module can be found here.
Ethereum programming has a large area of development.
For transaction you ca
PyCon

Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2019/05/pycon-is-here-and-so-are-pycon-sprints.html

PyCon is here and so are the PyCon Sprints (May 6 - 9). For those who have not heard of OR attended the Sprints, we want to invite you to attend!The PyCon Sprints are a time set aside for you and the
Quansight Labs Blog: Labs update and April highlights

Link: https://labs.quansight.org/blog/2019/05/labs-update-april-highlights/

It has been an exciting first month for me at Quansight Labs. It's a good time
for a summary of what we worked on in April and what is coming next.
Progress on array computing libraries
Our first buck
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (clxxvi) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2019/05/clxxvi-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2019-05-04 19:37:38 GMTRandomness of Python's random - [44/5]What does
ListenData: Data Analysis in Python using Pandas - 50+ Examples

Link: https://www.listendata.com/2017/12/python-pandas-tutorial.html

Pandas being one of the most popular package in Python is widely used for data manipulation. It is a very powerful and versatile package which makes data cleaning and wrangling much easier and pleasan
Reuven Lerner: Making your Python decorators even better, with functool.wraps

Link: https://lerner.co.il/2019/05/05/making-your-python-decorators-even-better-with-functool-wraps/

The good news: I gave a talk on Friday morning, at PyCon 2019, called “Practical decorators.”
The better news: It was a huge crowd, and people have responded very warmly to the talk. Thanks to everyo
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.7.3 : Using the cognitive face detection from Azure Microsoft .

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2019/05/python-373-using-cognitive-face.html

The Microsoft Azure comes with this free feature named Computer Vision:
This API key is currently active
7 days remaining
Distill actionable information from images
5,000 transactions, 20 per minute.
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Joel Grus

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/05/06/pydev-of-the-week-joel-grus/

This week we welcome Joel Grus (@joelgrus) as our PyDev of the Week! Joel is the author of Data Science From Scratch: First Principles with Python from O’Reilly. You can catch up with Joel on his webs
The Code Bits: How to swap two variables in Python

Link: https://thecodebits.com/how-to-swap-two-variables-in-python/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-swap-two-variables-in-python

In this post, we will explore different ways to swap variables in Python.
1. The Pythonic way: Tuple packing and unpacking syntax
The most standard way in which swapping is done in Python is using the
Julien Danjou: An Introduction to Functional Programming with Python

Link: https://julien.danjou.info/python-and-functional-programming/

Many Python developers are unaware of the extent to which you can use functional programming in Python, which is a shame: with few exceptions, functional programming allows you to write more concise a