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Matthew Rocklin: Anatomy of an OSS Institutional Visit

Link: https://matthewrocklin.com/blog//work/2018/11/27/uk-met-visit

I recently visited the UK Meteorology Office, a moderately large organization
that serves the weather and climate forecasting needs of the UK (and several
other nations). I was there with other open
gamingdirectional: Create a score manager class for pygame project

Link: http://gamingdirectional.com/blog/2018/11/27/pygame-3/

In this article we will create a score manager class to render the player score on the scene for our pygame project. At the moment we will only increase the score of the player each time the player’s
Stack Abuse: Asynchronous vs Synchronous Python Performance Analysis

Link: https://stackabuse.com/asynchronous-vs-synchronous-python-performance-analysis/

Introduction
This article is the second part of a series on using Python for developing asynchronous web applications. The first part provides a more in-depth coverage of concurrency in Python and asy
Anwesha Das: Upgraded my blog to Ghost 2.6

Link: http://anweshadas.in/upgraded-my-blog-to-ghost-2-6-2/

I have been maintaining my blog. It is a self hosted Ghost blog, where I have my theme as Casper, the Ghost default. In the recent past, September 2018, Ghost has updated its version to 2.0. Now it i
Red Hat Developers: What, No Python in RHEL 8 Beta?

Link: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/27/what-no-python-in-rhel-8-beta/

TL;DR Of course we have Python! You just need to specify if you want Python 3 or 2 as we didn’t want to set a default. Give yum install python3 or yum install python2 a try. Or, if you want to see wha
Mike Driscoll: Python 101: Episode #35 – The virtualenv Package

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/11/27/python-101-episode-35-the-virtualenv-package/

In this screencast, we will learn about creating Python virtual environments using the popular virtualenv package.

You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
Semaphore Community: Dockerizing a Python Django Web Application

Link: https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/dockerizing-a-python-django-web-application

This article is brought with to you by Semaphore.Introduction
This article will cover building a simple 'Hello World'-style web
application written in Django and running it in the much talked about
Semaphore Community: Continuous Deployment of a Python Flask Application with Docker and Semaphore

Link: https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/continuous-deployment-of-a-python-flask-application-with-docker-and-semaphore

This article is brought with to you by Semaphore.Introduction
In this tutorial, we'll go through the continuous integration and
deployment of a dockerized Python Flask application with Semaphore. W
Wallaroo Labs: Using Wallaroo with PostgreSQL

Link: https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2018/11/using-wallaroo-with-postgresql/

Introduction In the last blog post, I gave an overview of our new Connectors APIs, discussing how they work under the hood and going over some of the examples we provide. In this post, we are going to
Rene Dudfield: 🐱🏍 — the first pygame 2 community game. Starting now! Are you in?

Link: http://renesd.blogspot.com/2018/11/first-pygame-2-community-game-starting.html

What is a 🐱🏍? *[0].There was this email thread on the pygame mailing list."About Pygame development".One topic of that conversation was doing a community game in there for reasons(see below).I would
NumFOCUS: This #GivingTuesday, We’re Saying “Thank You” To Our Supporters

Link: https://numfocus.org/blog/giving-tuesday-thank-you

The post This #GivingTuesday, We’re Saying “Thank You” To Our Supporters appeared first on NumFOCUS.
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #344 (Nov. 27, 2018)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/344

Guido van Rossum Updates, Automated Testing, and More
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Django Weblog: The DSF Board elections - what about you?

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/nov/27/dsf-board-why-stand/

I'm standing down from my position on the Django Software Foundation Board, having served for three years as the DSF's Vice-President (it's a nice role to have - but not nearly as grand as it sounds).
Vladimir Iakolev: Measuring community opinion: subreddits reactions to a link

Link: https://nvbn.github.io/2018/11/28/community-opinion/

As everyone knows a lot of subreddits are opinionated, so I thought that it might be
interesting to measure the opinion of different subreddits opinions. Not trying to start
a holy war I’ve specifical
John Cook: Searching for Mersenne primes

Link: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/11/28/searching-for-mersenne-primes/

The nth Mersenne number is
Mn = 2n – 1.
A Mersenne prime is a Mersenne number which is also prime. So far 50 have been found [1].
A necessary condition for Mn to be prime is that n is prime, so search
Matthew Rocklin: Support Python 2 with Cython

Link: https://matthewrocklin.com/blog//work/2018/11/28/python-2-and-cython

Summary
Many popular Python packages are dropping support for Python 2 next month.
This will be painful for several large institutions.
Cython can provide a temporary fix by letting us compile a Pytho
Real Python: Python Community Interview With Emily Morehouse

Link: https://realpython.com/interview-emily-morehouse/

I’m very pleased to be joined this week by Emily Morehouse.
Emily is one of the newest additions to the CPython core developer team, and the founder and director of engineering of Cuttlesoft. Emily a
Stack Abuse: Search Algorithms in Python

Link: https://stackabuse.com/search-algorithms-in-python/

Introduction
Searching for data stored in different data structures is a crucial part of pretty much every single application.
There are many different algorithms available to utilize when searching,
Stack Abuse: Saving Text, JSON, and CSV to a File in Python

Link: https://stackabuse.com/saving-text-json-and-csv-to-a-file-in-python/

Saving data to a file is one of the most common programming tasks you may come across in your developer life.
Generally, programs take some input and produce some output. There are numerous cases in