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PyCon: Announcing The Startup Row Lineup At PyCon 2020

Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2020/04/announcing-startup-row-lineup-at-pycon.html

Each year since 2011, PyCon has reserved a special place for early-stage startups to show off what they're working on to the Python community.As its name might suggest, Startup Row is a row of booths
PyCon: PyCon 2020 Online Launch!

Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2020/04/pycon-2020-online-launch_15.html

Dozens of presenters and sponsors prepared content for the launch of PyCon 2020 Online!We are pleased to present talks and tutorials by Russell Keith Magee, Marlene Mhangami, Eric Ma, and so many more
Real Python: Sorting Algorithms in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/sorting-algorithms-python/

Sorting is a basic building block that many other algorithms are built upon. It’s related to several exciting ideas that you’ll see throughout your programming career. Understanding how sorting algori
Mike Driscoll: Type Checking in Python

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2020/04/15/type-checking-in-python/

Type checking or hinting is a newer feature of Python that was added in Python 3.5. Type hinting is also known as type annotation. Type hinting is adding special syntax to functions and variable decla
Nathan Piccini Data Science Dojo Blog: Building a Rule-based Chatbot in Python

Link: https://blog.datasciencedojo.com/building-a-rule-based-chatbot-in-python/

Chatbots have become extremely popular in recent years and their use in the industry has skyrocketed. They have found a strong foothold in almost every task that requires text-based public dealing. Th
Jacob Perkins: NLTK Trainer Updates

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StreamHackerPython/~3/sZ1leRc2s3M/

I’ve recently pushed some updates to nltk-trainer, so that it now supports Python 3.7 and NLTK 3.4.5 or greater. NLTK also just released version 3.5.
One significant change is that the default part of
PyCharm: Django Custom Tags in PyCharm Professional 2020.1

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/1A-5crBUefo/

PyCharm started its life with Django support and our new release adds some useful improvements for Django coding. Let’s take a look at support for custom Django tags in PyCharm Professional 2020.1.
Bu
RMOTR: RMOTR Joins freeCodeCamp to Offer Data Analysis with Python Course

Link: https://blog.rmotr.com/rmotr-joins-freecodecamp-to-offer-data-analysis-with-python-course-500bea2bf2d9?source=rss----2e274f91448--python

Photo by Campaign Creators on UnsplashRMOTR is proud to partner with freeCodeCamp to release a brand new, free course, Data Analysis with Python.This in-depth tutorial, led by RMOTR founder Santiago B
Paul Bissex: How to port 100,000 lines of Python 2 to Python 3

Link: http://news.e-scribe.com/467

TLDR: Use futurize and its great documentation.
Last summer I led the conversion of a 77KLOC Python 2 web application to Python 3, and that was my guide.
First, we did the Stage 1 conversion, which ma
Programiz: Python Docstrings

Link: https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/docstrings

In this tutorial, we will learn about Python docstrings. More specifically, we will learn how and why docstrings are used with the help of examples.
Stefan Behnel: My responses to a Cython dev interview

Link: http://blog.behnel.de/posts/my-responses-to-a-cython-dev-interview.html

I recently received a request for an online interview by Jonathan Ruiz, a CS student in Berlin.
He's implementing graph algorithms as part of his final Bachelor thesis, and was evaluating and using Cy
Matt Layman: Consistent Onboarding - Building SaaS #52

Link: https://www.mattlayman.com/building-saas/consistent-onboarding/

In this episode, we glued together some of the onboarding steps. I added data validation so that future steps depend on data existing from previous steps. Then we added page messaging to direct users
Learn PyQt: Custom PyQt5/PySide2 PasswordEdit field with Show/Hide toggle

Link: https://www.learnpyqt.com/widgets/passwordedit/


When building applications which require a password (or some other secret) from a user you should use fields that hide the input. This prevents shoulder surfing passers by from being able to read off
Filipe Saraiva: LaKademy 2019

Link: https://blog.filipesaraiva.info/?p=2138

Past November 2019 KDE fellows from Latin-America arrived in Salvador – Brazil to attend an one more edition of LaKademy – the Latin American Akademy. That was the 7th edition of the event (or the 8th
Anwesha Das: Setting up a znc service

Link: http://anweshadas.in/setting-up-a-znc-service/

Here is an installation guide of znc on Fedora 31 :
Install the znc package
sudo dnf install znc

The current version of znc in Fedora 31 is znc-1.7.5-1.fc31.x86_64.
Configure znc
The next was to con
PyBites: 20 Refactoring Tips That Will Improve The Quality of Your Python Code

Link: https://pybit.es/python-refactoring.html

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Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #5: Exploring CircuitPython

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/5/

Have you ever wanted to explore using Python with electronics? CircuitPython is a great platform to get started with. This week Christopher talks with Thea Flowers. Thea has been creating several hard