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Mike Driscoll: Guido Retires as BDFL

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/07/13/guido-retire-as-bdfl/

Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, and the Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL) has retired as the BDFL with no successor named as of July 12, 2018. See the following email from the Python Commit
Talk Python to Me: #169 Becoming a Python content creator

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/169/becoming-a-python-content-creator

Corey Schafer has been building his YouTube channel of tutorials for many years. He recently made the big shift into making this hobby project his full time job. You'll hear about how Corey made that
Justin Mayer: Python Development Environment on macOS High Sierra

Link: https://hackercodex.com/guide/python-development-environment-on-mac-osx/

While installing Python and Virtualenv on macOS High Sierra can be done several ways, this tutorial will guide you through the process of configuring a stock Mac system into a solid Python development
pgcli: Release v1.10.0

Link: http://pgcli.com/v1.10.0.html

Pgcli is a command line interface for Postgres database that does
auto-completion and syntax highlighting. You can install this version using:

$ pip install -U pgcli

This release adds new special co
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cxxxiv) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2018/07/cxxxiv-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2018-07-14 20:51:04 GMTRemove item from list based on the next item in
Django Weblog: DjangoCon AU 2018: Tickets on sale

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/jul/14/djangocon-au-2018-tickets/

DjangoCon Australia, the cute little sibling conference to DjangoCons EU
and US, is on again next month in sunny Sydney.
A one-day event packed full of content, DjangoCon AU is run as a
Specialist Tra
Bhishan Bhandari: Idiomatic Python – Use of Falsy and Truthy Concepts

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheTaraNights/~3/h9dh9M4fy3U/

Out of many, one reason for python’s popularity is the readability. Python has code style guidelines and idioms and these allow future readers of the code to comprehend to the intentions of it. It is
EuroPython Society: Invitation to the EuroPython Society General Assembly 2018

Link: https://www.europython-society.org/post/175911344495

We would like to invite all EuroPython attendees and EuroPython Society
(EPS) members to attend this
year’s EPS General Assembly (GA), which we will run as in-person meeting
at the upcoming EuroPyt
EuroPython: EuroPython 2018: Delaying switch to Late Bird Tickets by one day - please use your coupons today !

Link: https://blog.europython.eu/post/175912024162

Since we still have quite a few people with discount coupons who haven’t bought their tickets yet, we are extending the regular ticket sales by one day.Switch to Late Bird Tickets on July 17, 00:00 CE
Stefan Behnel: A really fast Python web server with Cython

Link: http://blog.behnel.de/posts/fast-python-web-server-with-cython.html

Shortly after I wrote about speeding up Python web frameworks with Cython,
Nexedi posted an article about their attempt to build
a fast multicore web server for Python
that can compete with the perfor
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Katharine Jarmul

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/07/16/pydev-of-the-week-katharine-jarmul/

This week we welcome Katharine Jarmul (@kjam) as our PyDev of the Week! Katherine is the co-author of Data Wrangling with Python . She is also the co-founder of KIProtect. You can catch up with the pr
Will Kahn-Greene: Thoughts on Guido retiring as BDFL of Python

Link: http://bluesock.org/~willkg/blog/dev/python/guido_retiring_bdfl.html

I read the news of Guido van Rossum announcing his retirement as BDFL of
Python and it made me a bit sad.
I've been programming in Python for almost 20 years on a myriad of open
source projects, tools
Mike Driscoll: ANN: Jupyter Notebook 101 Kickstarter

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/07/16/ann-jupyter-notebook-101-kickstarter/

I am happy to announce my latest Kickstarter which is to raise funds to create a book on Jupyter Notebook!
Jupyter Notebook 101 will teach you all you need to know to create and use Notebooks effectiv
Michael Foord: The Role of Abstractions in Software Engineering

Link: https://agileabstractions.com/Abstractions/


This is a video and text of a lightning talk, a five minute presentation, given at PyCon US 2018 in Cleveland. The image is an abstract representation of a concrete apple.

The Role of Software Abstr
Real Python: Reading and Writing CSV Files in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/python-csv/

Let’s face it: you need to get information into and out of your programs through more than just the keyboard and console. Exchanging information through text files is a common way to share info betwee
Bhishan Bhandari: Python Assignment Expression – PEP 572 – Python3.8

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheTaraNights/~3/d4Ewbt6EGNY/

A recent buzz in the Python Community is PEP 572’s acceptance for Python3.8 . PEP stands for Python Enhancement Proposals and each such PEPs are assigned a number by the PEP editors and once assigned