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Django Weblog: Django bugfix release: 4.2.8

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/dec/04/bugfix-release/

Today we've issued the 4.2.8 bugfix release.
The release package and checksums are available from our downloads page, as well as from the Python Package Index. The PGP key ID used for this release is
Django Weblog: Django 5.0 released

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/dec/04/django-50-released/

The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 5.0.
The release notes
cover a deluge of exciting new features in detail, but a few highlights are:

The database-computed default values
all
Real Python: Serialize Your Data With Python

Link: https://realpython.com/python-serialize-data/

Whether you’re a data scientist crunching big data in a distributed cluster, a back-end engineer building scalable microservices, or a front-end developer consuming web APIs, you should understand dat
Daniel Roy Greenfeld: TIL: Forcing pip to use virtualenv

Link: https://daniel.feldroy.com/posts/til-2023-12-forcing-pip-to-use-virtualenv

Necessary because installing things into your base python causes false positives, true negatives, and other head bangers.
Set this environment variable, preferably in your rc file:
# ~/.zshrc
export
Zato Blog: Smart IoT integrations with Akenza and Python

Link: https://zato.io/en/insights/akenza-iot-python-websockets.html


Smart IoT integrations with Akenza and Python


2023-12-04, by Dariusz Suchojad


Overview
The Akenza IoT platform, on its own, excels in collecting and managing data from a myriad of IoT devices.
Python Software Foundation: It's time for our annual year-end PSF fundraiser and membership drive 🎉

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2023/11/support-python-q4-2023.html

Support Python in 2023!  There are two ways to join in the drive this year:Donate directly to the PSF! Every dollar makes a difference. (Does every dollar also make a puppy’s tail wag? We make no prom
James Bennett: Easy HTTP status codes in Python

Link: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2023/dec/04/python-http-status-codes/

This is part of a series of posts I’m doing as a sort of Python/Django Advent calendar for Advent 2023, offering a small tip or piece of information each day from the first Sunday of Advent through Ch
Mike Driscoll: Viewing an Animated GIF with Python

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2023/12/05/viewing-an-animated-gif-with-python/

Animated GIFs are a fun way to share silent videos on social media. This website has a tutorial to help you learn how to create your own animated GIFs with Python. But what if you wanted to view an an
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #606 (Dec. 5, 2023)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/606

#606 – DECEMBER 5, 2023 View in Browser » Advent of Code: Solving Puzzles With Python Advent of Code is an online advent calendar that shares new programming puzzles each day from December 1 to
Read the Docs: Read the Docs newsletter - December 2023

Link: https://blog.readthedocs.com/newsletter-december-2023/

News and updates

We have shipped single version projects to allow projects to be versioned without having translations. This is a long-requested feature that we’ve excited to ship based on our Proxit
James Bennett: Understanding virtual environments in Python

Link: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2023/dec/05/understanding-python-venv/

This is part of a series of posts I’m doing as a sort of Python/Django Advent calendar, offering a small tip or piece of information each day from the first Sunday of Advent through Christmas Eve. See
Real Python: Build a Hangman Game With Python and PySimpleGUI

Link: https://realpython.com/hangman-python-pysimplegui/

Wouldn’t it be cool to build a hangman game with a nice graphical user interface (GUI) in Python? Maybe you’ve built a text-based user interface version of hangman, and now you want to make an even mo
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python Linting in Visual Studio Code – Hinting and Linting Video Series

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-linting-video/


One of the most important parts of writing code is making sure your code is readable. There are so many positive downstream effects of clean code from its ease to maintain and add features, debug sub
Glyph Lefkowitz: Safer, Not Later

Link: https://blog.glyph.im/2023/12/safer-not-later.html

Facebook — and by extension, most of Silicon Valley — rightly gets a lot of
shit
for its
old
motto, “Move Fast and Break Things”.
As a general principle for living your life, it is obviously terrible
Sandipan Dey: Non-Negative Matrix Factorization to solve Text Classification and Recommendation Problems

Link:

In this blog, we shall discuss on how matrix-factorization-based unsupervised machine learning techniques can be applied to solve problems such as text classification (BBC news docs) and movie recomme
Talk Python to Me: #441: Python = Syntactic Sugar?

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/441/python-syntactic-sugar

You've probably heard the term "syntactic sugar", that is, syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express. It makes the language "sweeter" for human
PyBites: Elevating Python Mastery With Pybites Real-World Developer Certifications

Link: https://pybit.es/articles/real-world-python-developer-certifications/

“The most rigorous certification program of its kind … the total end result of which is an absurdly high number of finished, feature-rich, production-ready software applications.” – Josh E
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