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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
PyCharm: PyCharm 2018.3 Release Candidate

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/AvP1uwyWR-Y/

PyCharm 2018.3 is almost ready to be released, and that’s why we’re happy to present the release candidate for PyCharm 2018.3. Download this version from our website
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Catalin George Festila: Python Qt5 - default icons with QStyle.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2018/11/python-qt5-default-icons-with-qstyle.html

This is a simple example of QStyle.Using the QStyle can solve more issues above this example.The QStyle can solve more problems than this example.You can change everything in PyQt5 and Qt.The QStyle c
Continuum Analytics Blog: Choose Your Anaconda IDE Adventure: Jupyter, JupyterLab, or Apache Zeppelin

Link: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/choose-your-anaconda-ide-adventure-jupyter-jupyterlab-or-apache-zeppelin/

As humans we are faced with multiple choices every day. Every person is different: some people prefer Firefox while others like Chrome; some people prefer Python while others like R. Here at Anaconda,
Talk Python to Me: #185 Creating a Python 3 Culture at Facebook

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/185/creating-a-python-3-culture-at-facebook

Do you or your team maintain a large Python 2 code base? Would you like to move to Python 3 but there's just too much in place keeping you on legacy Python? Then you will definitely enjoy this story f
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis: API Evolution the Right Way

Link: https://emptysqua.re/blog/api-evolution-the-right-way/

Imagine you are a creator deity, designing a body for a creature. In your benevelonce, you wish for the creature to evolve over time: first, because it must respond to changes in its environment, and
Brad Lucas: Updating Your Pip Requirements File

Link: http://blog.bradlucas.com/posts/2018-11-09-updating-your-pip-requirements-file/

While revisiting an old Python project you may come to realize that your requirements.txt file contains out of date versions. You could go through and research each library and get it's latest version
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cli) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2018/11/cli-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2018-11-10 17:22:00 GMTWhy are Python operations 30× slower after calli
Catalin George Festila: Python Qt5 - QTabWidget example.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2018/11/python-qt5-qtabwidget-example.html

Today I test the QTabWidget with an simple example.The source code uses the QTabWidget and create two Tab: FirstTab and TabTwo.I add for each tab two labels: tab_one_label_one, tab_one_label_two,tab_t
Yasoob Khalid: Review: The History of Unix Video

Link: https://pythontips.com/2018/11/10/review-history-of-unix-video/

Hi everyone! If you have been following my blog for a while, you will know how much I love computers. I recently watched this video about the history of Unix and decided to write a short post about it
Andre Roberge: User feedback is essential for improvements

Link: https://aroberge.blogspot.com/2018/11/user-feedback-is-essential-for.html

A while ago, in Reeborg's World, I implemented a way to require Reeborg to follow a specific path in order to complete a task. For a world creator, this meant to include a path as a list of successive
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Frank Vieira

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/11/12/pydev-of-the-week-frank-vieira/

This week we welcome Frank Vieira as our PyDev of the Week. Frank is the creator of the Vibora package, a “fast, asynchronous and elegant Python web framework.” You can see what else Frank is up to ov
Erik Marsja: How to use Pandas Sample to Select Rows and Columns

Link: https://www.marsja.se/pandas-sample-randomly-select-rows/

In this tutorial we will learn how to use Pandas sample to randomly select rows and columns from a Pandas dataframe. There are some reasons for randomly sample our data; for instance, we may have a ve