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gamingdirectional: Detect the player’s boundary

Link: http://gamingdirectional.com/blog/2019/02/16/detect-the-players-boundary/

In this article, we will start to create the boundary detection mechanism which can be used to help the boy moving around the canvas. We will go slowly where this topic will take a few chapters to com
Codementor: Getting Started with Pathlib

Link: https://www.codementor.io/iyanuashiri/getting-started-with-pathlib-s8rsr4i98

Introduction This tutorial will guide you on how to use the Pathlib module for working with filesystem paths, the benefits, and understand the problem it solves since the Python standard library&helli
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (clxv) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2019/02/clxv-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2019-02-16 19:24:24 GMTWhy does Python allow out-of-range slice indexes
Python Insider: Python 2.7.16 release candidate 1 available

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonInsider/~3/S6j78Cu8CE0/python-2716-release-candidate-1.html

A release candidate for the upcoming 2.7.16 bug fix release is now available for download.
Thomas Guest: Aligning the first line of a triple-quoted string in Python

Link: http://wordaligned.org/articles/aligning-the-first-line-of-a-triplequoted-string-in-python

Python’s triple-quoted strings are a convenient syntax for strings where the contents span multiple lines. Unescaped newlines are allowed in triple-quoted strings. So, rather than write:

song = ("Hap
PyBites: PyBites Twitter Digest - Issue 01, 2019

Link: https://pybit.es/twitter_digest_201901.html

It has been too long 😞 but we're excited to bring you today: 🐍 PyBites Twitter Digest - Issue 01, 2019 😎
Python Developers Survey 2018 results
Hey Pythonistas, have you already seen the Python Develo
gamingdirectional: Continue with the boy boundary detection mechanism

Link: http://gamingdirectional.com/blog/2019/02/17/continue-with-the-boy-boundary-detection-mechanism/

In the previous article, we have successfully made the boy climbing up the ladder but the boy will continue climbing even though there is no more ladder for him to climb. In this article, we will solv
Stefan Behnel: Speeding up basic object operations in Cython

Link: http://blog.behnel.de/posts/tuning-basic-object-operations-in-cython.html

Raymond Hettinger published a nice little micro-benchmark script for comparing basic operations like attribute or item access in CPython and comparing the performance across Python versions.
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Test and Code: 65: one assert per test

Link: https://testandcode.com/65

Is it ok to have more than one assert statement in a test?
I've seen articles that say no, you should never have more than one assert.
I've also seen some test code made almost unreadable due to tryi
Real Python: How to Run Your Python Scripts

Link: https://realpython.com/run-python-scripts/

One of the most important skills you need to build as a Python developer is to be able to run Python scripts and code. This is going to be the only way for you to know if your code works as you planne
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Maria McKinley

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/02/18/pydev-of-the-week-maria-mckinley/

This week we welcome Maria McKinley (@twiteness) as our PyDev of the Week. Maria is a Senior Software Engineer at the Walt Disney Company and will be a speaker at PyCascades 2019. She is also teaching
Red Hat Developers: Creating a containerized Python/Flask development environment with Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces

Link: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/02/18/containerized-python-flask-development-environment-red-hat-codeready-workspaces/

Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces provide developers with containerized development environments hosted on OpenShift/Kubernetes. DevOps teams can now use a hosted development environment that’s pre-built f
Made With Mu: A Steady Hand and Heart

Link: https://madewith.mu/mu/users/2019/02/18/steady-hand.html

This post celebrates the extraordinarily talented and inventive friend of Mu,
Mr. Les Pounder.

I first met Les at PyCon UK back in 2013. I was coordinating the education
track where we had around 40
Zato Blog: Deploying 700 services a second with one CPU

Link: https://zato.io/blog/posts/deploying-services.html

As of today, anyone building Zato from source
will notice a significant decrease in time needed for servers to start and stop - it is now
possible for an entire server to boot up to a fully functiona
Podcast.__init__: Unpacking The Python Toolkit For Chaos Engineering

Link: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/chaos-toolkit-chaos-engineering-episode-199/

Chaos engineering is the practice of injecting failures into your production systems in a controlled manner to identify weaknesses in your applications. In order to build, run, and report on chaos exp
Chris Moffitt: Monte Carlo Simulation with Python

Link: https://pbpython.com/monte-carlo.html


Introduction
There are many sophisticated models people can build for solving a forecasting
problem. However, they frequently stick to simple Excel models based on average
historical values, intuitio
PyCon: PyCon 2019 Tutorial Schedule!

Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2019/02/pycon-2019-tutorial-schedule.html

The highly anticipated PyCon 2019 tutorial schedule is now available! The tutorial schedule for Wednesday May 1, 2019 and Thursday May 2, 2019 can be found here.Registration for tutorials is open! Fo