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Podcast.__init__: The Journey To Replace Python's Parser And What It Means For The Future - Episode 285

Link: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/cpython-parser-replacement-episode-285/

The release of Python 3.9 introduced a new parser that paves the way for brand new features. Every programming language has its own specific syntax for representing the logic that you are trying to ex
Evennia: On using Markdown with Sphinx - onward to Evennia 0.9.5

Link: http://evennia.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-using-markdown-with-sphinx-onward-to.html

Last post I wrote about the upcoming v1.0 of Evennia, the Python MU* creation engine. We are not getting to that 1.0 version quite yet though: The next release will be 0.9.5, hopefully out relatively
Reuven Lerner: Improve your Python skills in 15 weeks — with Weekly Python Exercise!

Link: https://lerner.co.il/2020/10/18/improve-your-python-skills-in-15-weeks-with-weekly-python-exercise/


If you’ve been using Python for a year or so, then you’re no longer confused or surprised by the language’s basics — the core data structures, functions, and even basic object-oriented programming. B
Stack Abuse: Python: Check Index of an Item in a List

Link: https://stackabuse.com/python-check-index-of-an-item-in-a-list/

Introduction
Lists are useful in different ways compared to other datatypes because of how versatile they are. In this article we'll take a look at one of the most common operations with lists - findi
Python Morsels: Variables are pointers

Link: https://www.pythonmorsels.com/topics/variables-are-pointers/



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The 2 Types of "Change" in Python
Equality vs Identity
Data Structures Contain Pointers


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Variables in Python are not buckets that contain things, but pointers: variables poi
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #443 (Oct. 20, 2020)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/443

#443 – OCTOBER 20, 2020 View in Browser » Python For Feature Film A look into how Python is used to bring your favorite movies to the big screen. DHRUV GOVIL Data Management With Python, SQLi
Kushal Das: Fixing errors on my blog's feed

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/fixing-errors-on-my-blog-s-feed.html


For the last few weeks, my blog feed was not showing up in the Fedora
Planet. While trying to figure out what is wrong,
Nirik pointed me to the 4 errors in the feed according to the W3C validator. If
Codementor: How To Take A Screenshot Using Python & Selenium?

Link: https://www.codementor.io/codepoetn/how-to-take-a-screenshot-using-python-selenium-1bgdfdw9s8

This tutorial will guide you how to use Selenium and Python to capture Python Selenium screenshots and check how your website is rendered over different browsers.
Stack Abuse: How to Iterate over Rows in a Pandas DataFrame

Link: https://stackabuse.com/how-to-iterate-over-rows-in-a-pandas-dataframe/

Introduction
Pandas is an immensely popular data manipulation framework for Python. In a lot of cases, you might want to iterate over data - either to print it out, or perform some operations on it.
I
Stack Abuse: Matplotlib Scatter Plot - Tutorial and Examples

Link: https://stackabuse.com/matplotlib-scatterplot-tutorial-and-examples/

Introduction
Matplotlib is one of the most widely used data visualization libraries in Python. From simple to complex visualizations, it's the go-to library for most.
In this tutorial, we'll take a lo
Real Python: Level Up Your Skills With the Real Python Slack Community

Link: https://realpython.com/community-slack-guide/

The Real Python Community Slack is an English-speaking Python community with members located all over the world. It’s a welcoming group in which you’re free to discuss your coding and career questions
Talk Python to Me: #287 Testing without dependencies, mocking in Python

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/287/testing-without-dependencies-mocking-in-python

We know our unit tests should be relatively independent from other parts of the system. For example, running a test shouldn't generally call a credit card possessing API and talk to a database when yo
Sebastian Witowski: Remove Duplicates From a List

Link: https://switowski.com/blog/remove-duplicates


How do we remove duplicates from a list? One way is to go through the original list, pick up unique values, and append them to a new list.


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"Writing Faster
Python Circle: Automating PDF generation using Python reportlab module

Link: https://pythoncircle.com/post/729/automating-pdf-generation-using-python-reportlab-module/

Generating PDF using python reportlab module, Adding table to PDF using Python, Adding Pie Chart to PDF using Python, Generating PDF invoice using Python code, Automating PDF generation using Python r
Stack Abuse: Python: Slice Notation on String

Link: https://stackabuse.com/python-slice-notation-on-string/

Introduction
The term slicing in programming usually refers to obtaining a substring, sub-tuple, or sublist from a string, tuple, or list respectively.
Python offers an array of straightforward ways t
PyCharm: Webinar Recording: “virtualenv – a deep dive” with Bernat Gabor

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/NBzn05eWqG4/

PyCharm virtual environments are an important but challenging topic. We recently hosted Bernat Gabor to discuss this, as well as his rewrite of virtualenv, the hugely-popular command-line tool for cre