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gamingdirectional: Pygame’s Color class demo

Link: http://gamingdirectional.com/blog/2018/11/07/pygame-color/

Today I have paid a visit to the Pygame document page to revise all the pygame classes one by one because I have already forgotten all of them. In order to create a game with Pygame I will need to get
Real Python: Python "while" Loops (Indefinite Iteration)

Link: https://realpython.com/python-while-loop/

Iteration means executing the same block of code over and over, potentially many times. A programming structure that implements iteration is called a loop.
In programming, there are two types of iter
Python Anywhere: Always-on tasks

Link: https://blog.pythonanywhere.com/172/

Always-on tasks are a new feature we rolled out in our last system update. Essentially, they're a way you
can specify a program and tell us that you want us to keep it running all the time. If it e
Mike Driscoll: Python 101: Episode #32 – Static Code Analysis

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/11/07/python-101-episode-32-static-code-analysis/

In this episode, we learn how we can use PyLine and PyFlakes to check our code for issues. Of course since this video was made, Flake8 and Python Black have become pretty popular, so you might want to
Catalin George Festila: Python Qt5 - QLCDNumber and QDial example.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2018/11/python-qt5-qlcdnumber-and-qdial-example.html

This tutorial uses a simple example of QLCDNumber and QDial.The steps start with create the QWidget with the QLCDNumber and QDial.You need to set geometry for both and connect the dial with valueChang
Catalin George Festila: Python Qt5 - QLCDNumber and QDial example.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2018/11/python-qt5-qlcdnumber-and-qdial-example.html

This tutorial uses a simple example of QLCDNumber and QDial.The steps start with create the QWidget with the QLCDNumber and QDial.You need to set geometry for both and connect the dial with valueChang
Moshe Zadka: The Conference That Was Almost Called "Pythaluma"

Link: https://orbifold.xyz/nbpy-2018.html

As my friend Thursday
said in her excellent talk
(sadly, not up as of this time)
naming things is important.
Avoiding in-jokes is,
in general,
a good idea.
It is with mixed feelings,
therefore,
that m
gamingdirectional: Pygame Music player demo

Link: http://gamingdirectional.com/blog/2018/11/08/pygame-music/

In this article we are going to play the background music with the help of the pygame.mixer_music module. We will first load the soundtrack then play it repeatedly. We can also play the background mus
Rene Dudfield: Drawing data. With #flask, and #matplotlib.

Link: http://renesd.blogspot.com/2018/11/drawing-data-with-flask-and-matplotlib.html

Here's a pretty simple example of using the Flask microweb framework, and matplotlib together.Matplotlib is a graphing library used by a lot of people in python.But how to serve your graphs up in a we
Catalin George Festila: Python Qt5 - QFileDialog and QTextEdit example.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2018/11/python-qt5-qfiledialog-and-qtextedit.html

This tutorial is about QFileDialog and how to use it.First you need to create a default PyQ5 application and add your method is called by my_OpenDialog.This will be connected to one button.My applicat
Wallaroo Labs: Python Python Python! Python 3 Comes to Wallaroo

Link: https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2018/11/python-python-python-python-3-comes-to-wallaroo/

If you’ve tried to build a scalable distributed system in Python you could be excused for thinking that the world is conspiring against you; in spite of Python’s popularity as a programming language f
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python in Visual Studio Code – October 2018 Release

Link: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2018/11/08/python-in-visual-studio-code-october-2018-release/

We are pleased to announce that the October 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the Marketplace, or install it dire
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Data Science with Python in Visual Studio Code

Link: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2018/11/08/data-science-with-python-in-visual-studio-code/

This post was written by Rong Lu, a Principal Program Manager working on Data Science tools for Visual Studio Code
Today we’re very excited to announce the availability of Data Science features in the
Wingware News: Wing Python IDE 6.1.2: November 8, 2018

Link: https://wingware.com/news/2018-11-08

This release allows creating a new virtualenv from the New Project dialog,
implements VI mode text object operations such as ciw, exits VI insert mode when jk is
typed rapidly, improves support for py
PyBites: Code Challenge 57 - Analyze Olympic Games Data With Pandas - Review

Link: https://pybit.es/codechallenge57_review.html

In this article we review last week's Analyze Olympic Games Data With Pandas code challenge.
Community Pull Requests
Another 12 PRs this week, cool!
[bobbelderbos@imac challenges (community)]$ git pu
PyBites: Code Challenge 58 - Analyze Podcast Transcripts with NLTK - Part I

Link: https://pybit.es/codechallenge58.html


There is an immense amount to be learned simply by tinkering with things. - Henry Ford

Hey Pythonistas,
It's time for another code challenge! In this two part challenge we're going to do some natur
Fabio Zadrozny: PyDev 7.0 (mypy, black, pipenv, faster debugger)

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/pydev/~3/qKFqQ3m4Neo/pydev-70-mypy-black-pipenv-faster.html

PyDev 7.0 (actually, PyDev 7.0.3 after some critical bugfixes on 7.0.0) is now available.Some of the improvements available in this version include:Mypy may be used as an additional backend for code a