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Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Will McGugan

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2021/04/12/pydev-of-the-week-will-mcgugan/

This week we welcome Will McGugan (@willmcgugan) as our PyDev of the Week! Will is the author of the Rich package, which is for for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. If you have a mo
Zato Blog: Understanding WebSocket API timeouts

Link: https://zato.io/blog/posts/websocket-timeouts.html

Zato WebSocket channels let you accept long-running API connections and, as such, they have a few settings
to fine tune their usage of timeouts. Let's discover what they are and how to use them.
WebSo
Stack Abuse: Borůvka's Algorithm in Python - Theory and Implementation

Link: https://stackabuse.com/boruvkas-algorithm-in-python-theory-and-implementation/

Introduction
Borůvka's Algorithm is a greedy algorithm published by Otakar Borůvka, a Czech mathematician best known for his work in graph theory. Its most famous application helps us find the minimum
Paolo Amoroso: Free Python Books Went Viral on Hacker News

Link: http://blog.paoloamoroso.com/2021/04/free-python-books-went-viral-on-hacker.html

My Free Python Books list went viral on Hacker News, ending up on the home page within the first 2-3 entries for several hours.Free Python Books on the home page of Hacker News.Mike Andreuzza shared t
Real Python: Start Contributing to Python: Your First Steps

Link: https://realpython.com/start-contributing-python/

If you want to start contributing to open source, then Python is a great project to start with. You’ll not only be making your mark on one of the biggest projects out there, but you’ll also be doing i
death and gravity: Looking to improve by reading code? Some great examples from the Python standard library

Link: https://death.andgravity.com/stdlib

So, you're an advanced beginner
– you've learned your way past Python basics and can solve real problems.
You've now moved past tutorials and blog posts;
maybe you feel they offer one-dimensional solu
John Cook: Spaceship operator in Python

Link: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/04/12/spaceship-operator/

Some programming languages, such as Perl, have an infix operator <=> that returns a three-state comparison. The expression
a <=> b
evaluates to -1, 0, or 1 depending on whether a < b, a = b, or a
Chris Hager: PDFx update and new version release (v1.4.1)

Link: https://www.metachris.com/2021/04/pdfx-update-and-new-version-release-v1.4.1/


PDFx is a tool to extract text, links, references and metadata from PDF files and URLs. Thanks to several contributors the project received a thorough update and was brought into 2021. The new releas
PythonClub - A Brazilian collaborative blog about Python: Orientação a objetos de outra forma: Classes e objetos

Link: http://pythonclub.com.br/oo-de-outra-forma-1.html

Nas poucas e raríssimas lives que eu fiz na Twitch, surgiu a ideia de escrever sobre programação orientada a objetos em Python, principalmente por algumas diferenças de como ela foi implementada nessa
Podcast.__init__: Let The Robots Do The Work Using Robotic Process Automation with Robocorp

Link: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/robocorp-robotic-process-automation-episode-310/

One of the great promises of computers is that they will make our work faster and easier, so why do we all spend so much time manually copying data from websites, or entering information into web form
Ned Batchelder: Coverage.py and third-party code

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202104/coveragepy_and_thirdparty_code.html

I’ve made a change to coverage.py, and I could use your help testing it
before it’s released to the world.
tl;dr: install this and let me know if you don’t like the results:

pip install coverage==5.6
Kushal Das: Workshop on writing Python modules in Rust April 2020

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/workshop-on-writing-python-modules-in-rust-april-2020.html


I am conducting 2 repeat sessions for a workshop on "Writing Python modules in Rust".
The first session is on 16th April, 1500 UTC onwards, and the repeat session will be on
18th April 0900 UTC. More
Stack Abuse: Plotly Scatter Plot - Tutorial with Examples

Link: https://stackabuse.com/plotly-scatter-plot-tutorial-with-examples/

Introduction
Plotly is a JavaScript-based, Python data visualization library, focused on interactive and web-based visualizations. It has the simplicity of Seaborn, with a high-level API, but also the
Everyday Superpowers: Recover from pre-commit-adjacent file losses

Link: https://everydaysuperpowers.dev/articles/recover-from-pre-commit-adjacent-file-losses/

Pre-commit is a immensely useful tool for your projects. I use it for every project I work on.In a rare event, it might seem as though you lost many modified files—potentially hours of work, but the t
Python Software Foundation: The PSF is hiring a Python Packaging Project Manager!

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/BWmRSi2H2PE/the-psf-is-hiring-python-packaging.html

Thanks to a two-year grant commitment from Bloomberg, our second 2021 Visionary Sponsor and a long term committed supporter of the Python ecosystem, The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is hiring a fu
Real Python: Start Managing Multiple Python Versions With pyenv

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/start-with-pyenv/

Have you ever wanted to contribute to a project that supports multiple versions of Python but aren’t sure how you would easily test all the versions? Are you ever curious about the latest and greatest