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PSF GSoC students blogs: Weekly check-in #6 (week 7): 08/07 to 14/07

Link: http://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/blogs/tomasbs-blog/weekly-check-in-6-week-7-08-07-to-14-07/

Hi! At the start of week 7 I have learned that one of my mentors will be going on holiday during the next two weeks. This means that during that time I will mostly work by myself. Excited to see what’
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.7.3 : Simple tests with zipfile python module.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2019/07/python-373-simple-tests-with-zipfile.html

You can read about this python module here.
The ZIP file format is a common archive and compression standard. This module provides tools to create, read, write, append, and list a ZIP file. Any advanc
PSF GSoC students blogs: Coding Period: Week 7

Link: http://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/blogs/taapasx28s-blog/coding-period-week-7-1/

Greetings everyone!  This is this update for this week. This is all about how I
got hg abort finally added to Mercurial. I also sent PRs to evolve repository adding its support.
What did I do this wee
PSF GSoC students blogs: Weekly Check In

Link: http://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/blogs/atharva_kulkarnis-blog/weekly-check-in-7/

What did you do this week?
I worked on the Translation of files. Using Sphinx and the sphinx-intl library of python, I generated doctrees, .pot files and .po and .mo files which will be used in the tr
Podcast.__init__: A Modern Open Source Project Management Platform

Link: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/taiga-project-management-episode-220/

Project management is a discipline that has been through many incarnations, spawning an entire industry of businesses and tools. The challenge is to build a platform that is sufficiently powerful and
PSF GSoC students blogs: Weekly Check-In #6

Link: http://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/blogs/sounak98s-blog/weekly-check-in-6-1/

The application is almost built now. Only minor changes, bugfixes and writing tests are left.
In the last week, I fixed a lot of new and pending bugs from the past. All the issues and the fixes can be
IslandT: Find the RPM of the gear from the gear chain group with Python

Link: https://kibiwebgeek.com/2019/07/15/find-the-rpm-of-the-gear-from-the-gear-chain-group-with-python/

Given a list of gear in term of the gear teeth number, find the rpm of the last cog, the driven gear will rotate at 1 rpm in the clockwise direction.
Before we start this example, I would like to giv
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Meg Ray

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/07/15/pydev-of-the-week-meg-ray/

This week we welcome Meg Ray (@teach_python) as our PyDev of the Week! Meg teaches programming to other teachers and has developed Python-related curriculum. Meg is also the author of Code This Game,
PSF GSoC students blogs: For fork's sake - Fixing multiprocessing issues

Link: http://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/blogs/peterbell10s-blog/for-fork-s-sake-fixing-multiprocessing-issues/

What did you do this week?
It was also reported that scipy.fft does not interact well with python's multiprocessing library. I was able to track down the issue and resolve it within a few hours, addin
Real Python: Real Python at PyCon US 2019

Link: https://realpython.com/real-python-pycon-us/

There are many PyCons all over the world each year, but the biggest of them all is PyCon US (United States). This year, over 3000 Pythonistas descended on Cleveland, Ohio, to learn, collaborate, contr
PSF GSoC students blogs: Optimizing "map" and "zip" - Weekly check in #4

Link: http://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/blogs/bksahus-blog/optimizing-map-and-zip-weekly-check-in-4/

1. What did you do this week?
This week I started up with optimizing "map" built-in but later realised that I first need to optimize "zip" as there is no support on Nuitka for it as "map" is dependent
PSF GSoC students blogs: Week #7

Link: http://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/blogs/js94s-blog/week-7/

I managed to reduce the performance time to ~100 sec from 26 minutes by fetching a bigger chunk of data at a time than was fetched before. Furthermore, I successfully implemented hyperbox for loading
Codementor: Python Celery Guide

Link: https://www.codementor.io/djangostars/python-celery-guide-wwszdi1hl

Everyone in the Python community has heard about Celery at least once, and maybe even already worked with it. Basically, it’s a handy tool that helps run postponed or dedicated code in a separate...