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Anarcat: Calibre replacement considerations

Link: https://anarc.at/software/desktop/calibre/

Summary
TL;DR: I'm considering replacing those various Calibre compnents with...

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Full Stack Python: How to Add Maps to Django Web App Projects with Mapbox

Link: https://www.fullstackpython.com/blog/maps-django-web-applications-projects-mapbox.html

Building interactive maps into a Django web application
can seem daunting if you do not know where to begin, but it is easier
than you think if you use a developer tool such as
Mapbox.
In this post w
Calvin Spealman: Announcing Feet, a Python Runner

Link: http://techblog.ironfroggy.com/2019/10/announcing-feet-python-runner.html

I've been working on a problem that's bugged me for about as long as I've used Python and I want to announce my stab at a solution, finally!I've been working on the problem of "How do i get this littl
Amjith Ramanujam: Examples are Awesome

Link: https://blog.amjith.com/examples-are-awesome

There are two things I look for whenever I check out an Opensource project or library that I want to use. 1. Screenshots (A picture is worth a thousand words). 2. Examples (Don't tell me what to do, s
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Paul Ivanov

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/10/07/pydev-of-the-week-paul-ivanov/

This week we welcome Paul Ivanov (@ivanov) as our PyDev of the Week! Paul is a core developer of IPython and Jupyter. He is also an instructor at Software Carpentry. You can learn more about Paul on h
Glyph Lefkowitz: The Numbers, They Lie

Link: https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2019/10/the-numbers-they-lie.html

It’s October, and we’re all getting ready for Halloween, so allow me to me tell you a horror story, in Python:
1
2>>> 0.1 + 0.2 - 0.3
5.551115123125783e-17



Some of you might already be familiar wit
Julien Danjou: Python and fast HTTP clients

Link: https://julien.danjou.info/python-and-fast-http-clients/

Nowadays, it is more than likely that you will have to write an HTTP client for your application that will have to talk to another HTTP server. The ubiquity of REST API makes HTTP a first class citize
Ned Batchelder: Sponsor me on GitHub?

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/201910/sponsor_me_on_github.html

tl;dr: You can
sponsor me on GitHub,
but I’m not sure why you would.In May, GitHub launched
GitHub Sponsors,
a feature on their site for people to support each other financially. It’s
still in beta, b
Codementor: Choosing Python for Web Development: Top 16 Pros and Cons

Link: https://www.codementor.io/djangostars/choosing-python-for-web-development-top-16-pros-and-cons-zjnqig6hb

Did you know that Python was named after Monty Python?
One of the world’s most popular coding languages (https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/06/incredible-growth-python/), Python was first...
Quansight Labs Blog: Quansight Labs Work Update for September, 2019

Link: https://labs.quansight.org/blog/2019/10/quansight-labs-work-update-for-september-2019/

As of November, 2018, I have been working at
Quansight. Quansight is a new startup founded by
the same people who started Anaconda, which aims to connect companies and open
source communities, and off
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.7.4 : Example with subprocess - part 001.

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2019/10/python-374-example-with-subprocess-part.html

This is a simple example with the python 3 subprocess package.
The source code is simple to understand.
The execute_proceess_with_communicate let run the ls command with the sudo user permissions:
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Dataquest: Tutorial: Getting Music Data with the Last.fm API using Python

Link: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/last-fm-api-python/

APIs allow us to make requests from servers to retrieve data. APIs are useful for many things, but one is to be able to create a unique dataset for a data science project. In this tutorial, we’re goin
Podcast.__init__: Network Automation At Enterprise Scale With Python

Link: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/enms-network-automation-episode-232/

Designing and maintaining enterprise networks and the associated hardware is a complex and time consuming task. Network automation tools allow network engineers to codify their workflows and make them
Robin Wilson: Easily hiding items from the legend in matplotlib

Link: http://blog.rtwilson.com/easily-hiding-items-from-the-legend-in-matplotlib/

When producing some graphs for a client recently, I wanted to hide some labels from a legend in matplotlib. I started investigating complex arguments to the plt.legend function, but it turned out that
S. Lott: Spreadsheet Regrets

Link: http://slott-softwarearchitect.blogspot.com/2019/10/spreadsheet-regrets.html

I can't emphasize this enough.Some people, when confronted with a problem, think“I know, I'll use a spreadsheet.”   Now they have two problems.(This was originally about regular expressions. And AWK.
Stack Abuse: Getting Started with Python PyAutoGUI

Link: https://stackabuse.com/getting-started-with-python-pyautogui/

Introduction
In this tutorial, we're going to learn how to use pyautogui library in Python 3. The PyAutoGUI library provides cross-platform support for managing mouse and keyboard operations through c
PyPy Development: PyPy's new JSON parser

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PyPyStatusBlog/~3/AVZNUfFhOiI/pypys-new-json-parser.html



Introduction
In the last year or two I have worked on and off on making PyPy's
JSON faster, particularly when parsing large
JSON files. In this post I am going to document those techniques and
measu
PyBites: Linting with Flake8

Link: https://pybit.es/linting-with-flake8.html

For so long the word "Linting" meant nothing to me. It sounded like some supercoder leet speak that was way out of my league. Then I discovered flake8 and realised I was a fool.
This article is a simp