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Python Software Foundation: Announcing Our New Infrastructure Engineer

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2024/07/announcing-our-new-infrastructure.html

We are excited to announce that Jacob Coffee has joined the Python Software Foundation staff as an Infrastructure Engineer bringing his experience as an Open Source maintainer, dedicated homelab maint
Real Python: Quiz: Build a Blog Using Django, GraphQL, and Vue

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python-django-blog/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of building a Django blog back end and a Vue front end, using GraphQL to communicate between them.
You’ll revisit how to run the Django server and a Vue a
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #212: Digging Into Graph Theory in Python With David Amos

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/212/

Have you wondered about graph theory and how to start exploring it in Python? What resources and Python libraries can you use to experiment and learn more? This week on the show, former co-host David
Python Morsels: What are lists in Python?

Link: https://www.pythonmorsels.com/what-are-lists/

Lists are used to store and manipulate an ordered collection of things.



Table of contents

Lists are ordered collections
Containment checking
Length
Modifying the contents of a list
Indexing: looki
Quansight Labs Blog: Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with!

Link: https://labs.quansight.org/blog/free-threaded-python-rollout

An overview of the ongoing efforts to improve and roll out support for free-threaded CPython throughout the Python open source ecosystem
Talk Python to Me: #470: Python in Medicine and Patient Care

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/470/python-in-medicine-and-patient-care

Python is special. It's used by the big tech companies but also by those you would rarely classify as developers. On this episode, we get a look inside how Python is being used at a Children's Hospita
Python Software Foundation: Announcing Our New PyPI Support Specialist!

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2024/07/announcing-our-new-pypi-support.html

We are thrilled to announce that our first-ever search for a dedicated PyPI Support Specialist has concluded with the hire of Maria Ashna, the newest member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) sta
Peter Bengtsson: Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit with Python

Link: http://www.peterbe.com/plog/converting-celsius-to-fahrenheit-with-python

Starting at 4°C, add +12 to the Celcius and mirror the number to get the Fahrenheit number.
PyPy: Finding Simple Rewrite Rules for the JIT with Z3

Link: https://www.pypy.org/posts/2024/07/finding-simple-rewrite-rules-jit-z3.html

In June I was at the PLDI conference in
Copenhagen to present a paper
I co-authored with Max Bernstein. I also finally
met John Regehr, who I'd been talking on social
media for ages but had never met.
Zato Blog: Network packet brokers and automation in Python

Link: https://zato.io/en/blog/network-packet-broker-automation-python.html


Network packet brokers and automation in Python


2024-07-15, by Dariusz Suchojad



Packet brokers are crucial for network engineers, providing a clear, detailed view of network traffic,
aiding in
Kushal Das: Disable this Firefox preference to save privacy

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/disable-this-firefox-preference-to-save-privacy.html


If you are on the latest Firefox 128 (which is there on Fedora 40), you should
uncheck the following preference to disable Privacy-Preserving
Attribution.
Firefox added this experimental feature and
Real Python: Quiz: How to Flatten a List of Lists in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python-flatten-list/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of how to flatten a list in Python.
You’ll write code and answer questions to revisit the concept of converting a multidimensional list, such as a matrix,
Real Python: Split Your Dataset With scikit-learn's train_test_split()

Link: https://realpython.com/train-test-split-python-data/

One of the key aspects of supervised machine learning is model evaluation and validation. When you evaluate the predictive performance of your model, it’s essential that the process be unbiased. Using
Mike Driscoll: Creating Images in Your Terminal with Python and Rich Pixels

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2024/07/15/creating-images-in-your-terminal-with-python-and-rich-pixels/

A newer Python package called Rich Pixels allows you to create images in your terminal and display them. Darren Burns, one of the team members from the Textual project, created this package.
Anyway, l
Kushal Das: Friends, the most important part of any conference

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/friends-the-most-important-part-of-any-conference.html


At the beginning one goes to the conferences to listen to the talks and make
new contacts. You meet a lot of new faces every time. Over time a few of them
will become great friends and then all confe
Real Python: Quiz: How to Write Beautiful Python Code With PEP 8

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python-pep8/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of
how to write beautiful Python code with PEP 8.
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit the key guidelines laid out in PEP 8 and how to set up your
Real Python: Quiz: How to Use Generators and yield in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/generators-and-yield-in-python/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python generators.
Generators and the Python yield statement can help you when you’re working with large datasets that might overwhelm your machine’s me