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Will Kahn-Greene: Thoughts on Guido retiring as BDFL of Python

Link: http://bluesock.org/~willkg/blog/dev/python/guido_retiring_bdfl.html

I read the news of Guido van Rossum announcing his retirement as BDFL of
Python and it made me a bit sad.
I've been programming in Python for almost 20 years on a myriad of open
source projects, tools
Mike Driscoll: ANN: Jupyter Notebook 101 Kickstarter

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/07/16/ann-jupyter-notebook-101-kickstarter/

I am happy to announce my latest Kickstarter which is to raise funds to create a book on Jupyter Notebook!
Jupyter Notebook 101 will teach you all you need to know to create and use Notebooks effectiv
Michael Foord: The Role of Abstractions in Software Engineering

Link: https://agileabstractions.com/Abstractions/


This is a video and text of a lightning talk, a five minute presentation, given at PyCon US 2018 in Cleveland. The image is an abstract representation of a concrete apple.

The Role of Software Abstr
Real Python: Reading and Writing CSV Files in Python

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

Let’s face it: you need to get information into and out of your programs through more than just the keyboard and console. Exchanging information through text files is a common way to share info betwee
Bhishan Bhandari: Python Assignment Expression – PEP 572 – Python3.8

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheTaraNights/~3/d4Ewbt6EGNY/

A recent buzz in the Python Community is PEP 572’s acceptance for Python3.8 . PEP stands for Python Enhancement Proposals and each such PEPs are assigned a number by the PEP editors and once assigned
Continuum Analytics Blog: New Release of Anaconda Enterprise features Expanded GPU and Container Usage

Link: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/anaconda-enterprise-features-expanded-gpu-container-usage/

Anaconda, Inc. is thrilled to announce the latest release of Anaconda Enterprise, our popular AI/ML enablement platform for teams at scale. The release of Anaconda Enterprise 5.2 adds capabilities for
Test and Code: Preparing for Technical Talks with Kelsey Hightower - bonus episode

Link: http://testandcode.com/43-bonus

After I had wrapped up the interview with Kelsey Hightower for episode 43, I asked him one last question.
You see, I admire the his presentation style.
So I asked him if he would share with me how he
Matthew Rocklin: Who uses Dask?

Link: https://matthewrocklin.com/blog//work/2018/07/16/dask-stories

This work is supported by Anaconda Inc
People often ask general questions like “Who uses Dask?” or more specific
questions like the following:

For what applications do people use Dask dataframe?
How
Curtis Miller: Stock Data Analysis with Python (Second Edition)

Link:

This is a lecture for MATH 4100/CS 5160: Introduction to Data Science, offered at the University of Utah, introducing time series data analysis applied to finance. This is also an update to my earlier
Python Engineering at Microsoft: New web app tutorials in the VS and VS Code Python docs, and docs feedback

Link: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2018/07/17/new-web-app-tutorials-in-the-vs-and-vs-code-python-docs-and-docs-feedback/

This post was written by Kraig Brockschmidt
Recognizing the popularity of the Django and Flask web app frameworks, we recently added several tutorials in the Python documentation that guide you throug
Chris Warrick: Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little

Link: https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2018/07/17/pipenv-promises-a-lot-delivers-very-little/

Pipenv is a Python packaging tool that does one thing reasonably well — application dependency management. However, it is also plagued by issues, limitations and a break-neck development process. In t
Juan Rodríguez Monti: Big O Algorithm Complexity Cheatsheet for common data structures

Link: http://www.juanrodriguezmonti.com.ar/2018/07/17/bigocheatsheet/

Big O Cheatsheet Complexity Efficiency of stacks, queues, linked lists, doubly linked lists, and more data structures when inserting, deleting and searching Big O notation is defined by Wikipedia as a
Rene Dudfield: Draft of, ^Let's write a unit test!^

Link: http://renesd.blogspot.com/2018/07/draft-of-lets-write-unit-test.html

(BeginDraft)So, I started writing this for people who want to 'contribute' to Free Libre and Open source projects.It's not finished yet, but still useful, and I'd like a bit of feedback, and to start
Michael Foord: A Very Short Love Letter to Agile

Link: https://agileabstractions.com/Agile/


The photo shows some of the Resolver Systems crew enjoying a meal together at the 2009 EuroPython in Birmingham.
I love the word rigour. It conveys either, or both, strict discipline or something tha
Matthew Rocklin: Dask Development Log, Scipy 2018

Link: https://matthewrocklin.com/blog//work/2018/07/17/dask-dev

This work is supported by Anaconda Inc
To increase transparency I’m trying to blog more often about the current work
going on around Dask and related projects. Nothing here is ready for
production.
Dataquest: Basic Statistics in Python: Probability

Link: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/basic-statistics-in-python-probability/

When studying statistics, you will inevitably have to learn about probability. It is easy lose yourself in the formulas and theory behind probability, but it has essential uses in both working and dai