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Real Python: PyTorch vs Tensorflow for Your Python Deep Learning Project

Link: https://realpython.com/pytorch-vs-tensorflow/

PyTorch vs TensorFlow: What’s the difference? Both are open source Python libraries that use graphs to perform numerical computation on data. Both are used extensively in academic research and commerc
Doug Hellmann: reno 3.2.0

Link: http://feeds.doughellmann.com/~r/doughellmann/python/~3/VxwdrSbaDGo/

reno is a release notes manager designed with high throughput in mind, supporting fast distributed development teams without introducing additional development processes. The goal is to encourage deta
Python Software Foundation: Python Software Foundation End-of-the-Year Fundraiser

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/lqD8wjLxcTQ/python-software-foundation-end-of-year.html

We’re excited to announce that plans are underway for our end-of-the-year 2020 fundraising campaign launching on November 23rd and ending on December 31st!In the past, we’ve worked successfully with o
Dataquest: Tutorial: Web Scraping with Python Using Beautiful Soup

Link: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/web-scraping-tutorial-python/

The internet is an absolutely massive source of data. Unfortunately, the vast majority if it isn’t available in conveniently organized CSV files for download and analysis. If you want to capture data
Sebastian Witowski: Easy Speedup Wins With Numba

Link: https://switowski.com/blog/easy-speedup-wins-with-numba


If you have functions that do a lot of mathematical operations, use NumPy or rely heavily on loops, then there is a way to speed them up significantly with one line of code. Ok, two lines if you coun
Gocept Weblog: Presentation: We have nearly one million lines of Python 2 code in production — and now?

Link: https://blog.gocept.com/2020/09/03/presentation-we-have-nearly-one-million-lines-of-python-2-code-in-production-and-now/

Still running Python 2 code in production is like steering a ship without radar in thick fog: You don’t know, which obstacle you will hit next. But there are ways to see the sun again – even for large
Andrew Dalke: New chemfp licensing model in chemfp 3.4

Link: http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2020/09/03/new_chemfp_3x_licensing_model.html



Background: chemfp is a Python
package for high-performance cheminformatics fingerprint similarity
search. There are two development tracks. Chemfp 1.x is the
no-cost/open source version, which only
Mike Driscoll: wxPython by Example: Making Your Application Fade In and Out (Video)

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2020/09/03/wxpython-by-example-making-your-application-fade-in-and-out-video/

In this screencast, you will learn how to change the transparency of your application. This will allow you to make your application fade in or out.

The post wxPython by Example: Making Your Applicati
Matt Layman: Custom Form Validation - Building SaaS #71

Link: https://www.mattlayman.com/building-saas/custom-form-validation/

In this episode, I added some custom checking to ensure that students may only be enrolled in a single grade level for a school year. We talked about form cleaning and wrote a for unit test to prove t
Kushal Das: Using Stem and PySocks to access network over Tor

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/using-stem-and-pysocks-to-access-network-over-tor.html


I previously
wrote about
using the standard SOCKS proxy provided by the Tor
Project on your system using Python, in particular
using the requests module.
But, what about if you want to start a Tor SO
Andrew Dalke: What's up with chemfp 1.x?

Link: http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2020/09/03/chemfp_1x.html



Background: chemfp is a Python
package for high-performance cheminformatics fingerprint similarity
search. There are two development tracks. Chemfp 1.x is the
no-cost/open source version, which only
PSF GSoC students blogs: Week 14 blog!

Link: https://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/imaj_ashwinis-blog/week-14-blog/

Hi everyone
This is the last blog for GSoC 2020. It was an amazing journey and an experience to cherish for lifetime. 
I would like to thank Google for giving us, students this platform and Python Sof
Python Does What?!: Not counting zeros

Link: https://www.pythondoeswhat.com/2020/09/not-counting-zeros.html

We all have our favorite way of intentionally raising an exception in Python. Some like referencing an undefined variable to get a simple NameError, others might import a module that doesn't exist for
Python Does What?!: Welcome to the float zone...

Link: https://www.pythondoeswhat.com/2019/09/welcome-to-float-zone.html

Consider a REPL with two tuples, a and b.>>> type(a), type(b)(<type 'tuple'>, <type 'tuple'>)>>> a == bTrueSo far, so good.  But let's dig deeper...>>> a[0] == b[0]FalseThe tuples are equal, but their
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #25: Data Version Control in Python and Real Python Video Transcripts

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/25/

Wouldn't it be nice to a use a form of version control for data? Something that would allow you to track and version your datasets and models. Well, that's what the tool called DVC is designed to do.
Mike Driscoll: Python 101 – Learning About Loops (Video)

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2020/09/04/python-101-learning-about-loops-video/

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use for and while loops in Python.
Specifically, you’ll learn how to:

Create a for loop
Loop over a string
Loop over a dictionary
Extract multiple values from
Luke Plant: Test smarter, not harder

Link: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/test-smarter-not-harder/

“Smarter, not harder” is a saying used in many contexts, but rowing is the
context I think I first heard it in, and I still associate it with rowing many
years later.
When you look at novice and more