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PyCon: March 12 Update on COVID-19

Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-12-update-on-covid-19.html

With a month until PyCon US 2020’s scheduled start, the Python Software Foundation Board and Staff are working through our options for PyCon US 2020, and will keep you updated as decisions are made.In
Will McGugan: Progress bars with Rich

Link: https://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/post/progress-bars-with-rich/

I've added progress bar support to Rich.
If you haven't seen my earlier posts on the subject, Rich is a terminal rendering framework for Python. It lets you render styled text and a whole bunch of oth
PyCharm: PyCharm 2020.1 EAP 7

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/-F_9tSlA5nQ/

We have a new Early Access Program (EAP) version of PyCharm that can now be downloaded from our website
This EAP has a lot of important bug fixes, some new features, and a few usability improvements.
Moshe Zadka: Or else:

Link: https://orbifold.xyz/or-else.html

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"Coder's Cat": Encapsulation in Python

Link: https://coderscat.com/encapsulation-in-python

Encapsulation is an essential aspect of Object Oriented Porgramming.
Let’s explain encapsulation in plain words: information hiding. This means delimiting of the internal interface and attribute fr
NumFOCUS: PyData COVID-19 Response

Link: https://numfocus.org/blog/pydata-covid-19-response?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pydata-covid-19-response

The safety and well-being of our community are extremely important to us. We have therefore decided to postpone all PyData conferences scheduled to take place until the end of June: PyData Miami PyDat
Python Anywhere: How to use shared in-browser consoles to cooperate while working remotely.

Link: https://blog.pythonanywhere.com/187/

One of the challenges of remote work is when you need to work together on one thing.
Our in-browser consoles are one of the core features of our service. Almost since the beginning, PythonAnywhere
has
Ned Batchelder: Functional strategies in Python

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/202003/functional_strategies_in_python.html

I got into a debate about Python’s support for functional programming (FP)
with a friend. One of the challenging parts was listening to him say, “Python
is broken” a number of times.Python is not bro
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (ccxix) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2020/03/ccxix-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2020-03-14 12:08:07 GMTGet second minimum values per column in 2D array
Quansight Labs Blog: Documentation as a way to build Community

Link: https://labs.quansight.org/blog/2020/03/documentation-as-a-way-to-build-community/

As a long time user and participant in open source communities, I've always known that documentation is far from being a solved problem. At least, that's the impression we get from many developers: "w
Talk Python to Me: #255 Talking to cars with Python

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/255/talking-to-cars-with-python

Modern cars have become mobile computer systems with many small computers running millions of lines of code. On this episode, we plug a little Python into those data streams.
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Anarcat: Remote presence tools for social distancing

Link: https://anarc.at/blog/2020-03-15-remote-tools/

As a technologist, I've been wondering how I can help people with the
rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic. With the world entering
the "exponential stage" (e.g. Canada, the USA and basically
all of
Paweł Fertyk: WebRTC: a working example

Link: http://pfertyk.me/2020/03/webrtc-a-working-example/

Recently I had to use WebRTC for a simple project. The technology itself has
many advantages and is being developed as an open standard, without the need
for any plugins. However, I was quite new to W
The Digital Cat: Public key cryptography: RSA keys

Link: https://www.thedigitalcatonline.com/blog/2018/04/25/rsa-keys/

I bet you created at least once an RSA key pair, usually because you needed to connect to GitHub and you wanted to avoid typing your password every time. You diligently followed the documentation on h
Stack Abuse: Default Arguments in Python Functions

Link: https://stackabuse.com/default-arguments-in-python-functions/

Functions in Python are used to implement logic that you want to execute repeatedly at different places in your code. You can pass data to these functions via function arguments. In addition to passin
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.5.2 : Detect motion and save images with opencv.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2020/03/python-352-detect-motion-and-save.html

This script is simple to use it with a webcam or to parse a video file.
The main goal of this script is to see the difference in various frames of a video or webcam output.
The first frame of our vid