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Python Engineering at Microsoft: Come meet Microsoft at DjangoCon 2019

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/come-meet-microsoft-at-djangocon-2019/

DjangoCon 2019 is happening next week in San Diego and Microsoft is pleased to be supporting the conference as Gold sponsors this year. We will have some members from our Python team, our Azure Cloud
Brett Cannon: A Primer on the Stellar Network

Link: https://snarky.ca/a-primer-on-stellar/

On September 10, 2019 while I was in London, UK at the Python core dev sprints, I got a message from a user named "spacedrop" on Keybase. The message said I was being given 356.2904939 XLM as a surpri
Codementor: ML with Python: Part-1

Link: https://www.codementor.io/dhananjaykumar/ml-with-python-part-1-z02wtrpxb

Now, We are comfortable with Python and ready to get started with Machine Learning (ML) projects. But, Where to go next? Can we directly dive into coding ML projects? Please follow along to...
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cxcv) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2019/09/cxcv-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2019-09-21 13:40:48 GMTWhy does (inf + 0j)*1 evaluate to inf + nanj? -
Robin Wilson: Matplotlib titles have configurable locations – and you can have more than one at once!

Link: http://blog.rtwilson.com/matplotlib-titles-have-configurable-locations-and-you-can-have-more-than-one-at-once/

Just a quick post here to let you know about a matplotlib feature I've only just found out about.
I expect most of my readers know how to produce a simple plot with a title using matplotlib:
plt.plot(
Sumana Harihareswara - Cogito, Ergo Sumana: Futureproofing Your Python Tools

Link: https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2019/09/22/0

The people who maintain Python and key Python platforms want to help you protect the code you write and depend on.

If you write software in Python, or depend on something that's in Python, this is fo
Podcast.__init__: Exploratory Data Analysis Made Easy At The Command Line

Link: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/visidata-exploratory-data-analysis-episode-230/

There are countless tools and libraries in Python for data scientists to perform powerful analyses, but they often have a setup cost that acts as a barrier to ad-hoc exploration of data. Visidata is a
Continuum Analytics Blog: Anaconda Enterprise Receives Honors in Fourth Annual Datanami Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

Link: https://www.anaconda.com/datanami-editors-choice-award-2019/

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 23, 2019 — Anaconda’s enterprise data science platform has been recognized in the fourth annual Datanami Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented during the Strata Data Conferen
Real Python: Getting Started With Async Features in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/python-async-features/

Have you heard of asynchronous programming in Python? Are you curious to know more about Python async features and how you can use them in your work? Perhaps you’ve even tried to write threaded progra
tryexceptpass: Command Execution Tricks with Subprocess - Designing CI/CD Systems

Link: https://tryexceptpass.org/article/continuous-builds-subprocess-execution/

The most crucial step in any continuous integration process is the one that executes build instructions and tests their output. There’s an infinite number of ways to implement this step ranging from a
Dataquest: xlwings Tutorial: Make Excel Faster Using Python

Link: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/python-excel-xlwings-tutorial/

Pythons xlwings is a tool that allows you to use Python code to control and analyze data in Excel spreadsheets. This tutorial will help you get started.
The post xlwings Tutorial: Make Excel Faster Us
EuroPython: EuroPython 2019 - Videos for Thursday available

Link: https://blog.europython.eu/post/187919044337

With a slight delay, we are pleased to announce the second batch of cut videos from EuroPython 2019 in Basel, Switzerland, with another 45 videos.EuroPython 2019 YouTube ChannelIn this batch, we have
Wingware Blog: Debugging Python Code Running in Docker Containers with Wing 7

Link: https://wingware.com/blog/docker

Docker is a containerization system that uses a relatively
light-weight form of virtualization to package and isolate application components from the
host system, making it easier to spin up uniformly
Ned Batchelder: Coverage.py 5.0a7, and the future of pytest-cov

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/201909/coveragepy_50a7_and_the_future_of_pytestcov.html

Progress continues in the Python coverage world. Two recent things: first,
the latest alpha of Coverage.py 5.0 is available:
5.0a7. Second,
pytest-cov is supporing coverage.py 5.0, and we’re talking