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Stack Abuse: Integrating Matplotlib Charts in a PDF in Python With borb

Link: https://stackabuse.com/integrating-matplotlib-charts-in-a-pdf-in-python-with-borb/

Introduction
The Portable Document Format (PDF) is not a WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) format. It was developed to be platform-agnostic, independent of the underlying operating system and ren
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #83: Ready to Publish Your Python Packages?

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/83/

Are you interested in sharing your Python project with the broader world? Would you like to make it easily installable using pip? How do you create Python packages that share your code in a scalable a
Python for Beginners: Compare two lists in Python

Link: https://www.pythonforbeginners.com/basics/compare-two-lists-in-python

While programming in python, comparison has to be done very often for checking different conditions. We may need to compare two variables or two groups of variables for a single condition checking. In
Ben Cook: TorchVision Datasets: Getting Started

Link: https://sparrow.dev/torchvision-datasets/

The TorchVision datasets subpackage is a convenient utility for accessing well-known public image and video datasets. You can use these tools to start training new computer vision models very quickly.
Andre Roberge: Forgot to set up custom exception hook? Perhaps it is not too late.

Link: https://aroberge.blogspot.com/2021/10/forgot-to-set-up-custom-exception-hook.html

There are many custom exception hook that seek to improve upon the standard one from Python. The very first one is Python's cgitb module, but there are many others including, in no particular order, b
Ben Cook: TorchVision Transforms: Image Preprocessing in PyTorch

Link: https://sparrow.dev/torchvision-transforms/

TorchVision, a PyTorch computer vision package, has a simple API for image pre-processing in its torchvision.transforms module. The module contains a set of common, composable image transforms and giv
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (ccxcviii) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2021/10/ccxcviii-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2021-10-23 13:48:47 GMTWhy does redefining a variable used in a generat
IslandT: Retrieve data from the sqlite3 database and display it on the message box with Python

Link: https://onmouseentered.com/2021/10/21/retrieve-data-from-the-sqlite3-database-and-display-it-on-the-message-box-with-python/

In this article let us continue to develop our previous python Tkinter application by creating a search box and a button to allow the user to search for a particular symbol on the database and display
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Yury Selivanov

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2021/10/25/pydev-of-the-week-yury-selivanov/

This week we welcome Yury Selivanov (@1st1) as our PyDev of the Week! Yury is the founder of CEO of EdgeDB. Yury is also a core developer of the Python programming language. One of his most well known
Python GUIs: [updated for PySide6] Actions — Toolbars & Menus — Defining toolbars, menus and keyboard shortcuts with QAction

Link: https://www.pythonguis.com/tutorials/pyside-actions-toolbars-menus/

Next we'll look at some of the common user interface elements, that you've probably seen in many other applications — toolbars and menus. We'll also explore the neat system Qt provides for minimising
Django Weblog: Django 4.0 beta 1 released

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2021/oct/25/django-40-beta-1-released/

Django 4.0 beta 1 is now available. It represents the second stage in the 4.0
release cycle and is an opportunity for you to try out the changes coming in
Django 4.0.
Django 4.0 has an abundance of ne
IslandT: Create radio button and frame with Tkinter

Link: https://onmouseentered.com/2021/10/25/create-radio-button-and-frame-with-tkinter/

Welcome back to the same project which I have created earlier, I have decided to continue posting articles about this project instead of just develop it behinds the scene, after all, code sharing is w
Łukasz Langa: Notes From the Meeting On Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross

Link: https://lukasz.langa.pl/5d044f91-49c1-4170-aed1-62b6763e6ad0/

During the annual Python core development sprint we held a meeting with Sam Gross, the author of nogil, a fork of Python 3.9 that removes the GIL. This is a non-linear summary of the meeting.
Łukasz Langa: Weekly Report, October 18 - 24

Link: https://lukasz.langa.pl/d06c4387-5dd4-4a05-898c-8b6a5d48855e/

Core developer sprint week! Apart from reviewing and merging pull requests through the week, I did a bunch of project management things.
Paolo Amoroso: A NASA TV Still Frame Viewer in Python

Link: http://blog.paoloamoroso.com/2021/04/a-nasa-tv-still-frame-viewer-in-python.html

I wrote Spacestills, a Python program for viewing NASA TV still frames.The main window of Spacestills running on Replit.As a hobbyist wishing to improve my Python programming skills, for some time I’v
eGenix.com: Python Meeting Düsseldorf - 2021-10-27

Link: https://www.egenix.com/company/news/Python-Meeting-Duesseldorf-2021-10-27

The following text is in German, since we're announcing a regional user group meeting in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Ankündigung
Das Python Meeting Düsseldorf findet dieses Mal online statt.

27.10.2021
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Real Python: Using the "not" Boolean Operator in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/python-not-operator/

Python’s not operator allows you to invert the truth value of Boolean expressions and objects. You can use this operator in Boolean contexts, such as if statements and while loops. It also works in no
PyPy: PyPy v7.3.7: bugfix release of python 3.7 and 3.8

Link: https://www.pypy.org/posts/2021/10/pypy-v737-release.html

PyPy v7.3.7: bug-fix release of 3.7, 3.8
We are releasing a PyPy 7.3.7 to fix the recent 7.3.6 release's binary
incompatibility with the previous 7.3.x releases. We mistakenly added fields
to PyFrameO
Podcast.__init__: Speed Up Your Python Data Applications By Parallelizing Them With Bodo

Link: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/bodo-parallel-python-hpc-episode-337/

Summary
The speed of Python is a subject of constant debate, but there is no denying that for compute heavy work it is not the optimal tool. Rather than rewriting your data oriented applications, or h