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Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Thea Flowers

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/08/06/pydev-of-the-week-thea-flowers/

This week we welcome Thea Flowers (@theavalkyrie) as our PyDev of the Week! Thea is a maintainer of packaging.python.org and the urllib3 package. Thea also is very active in the Python community and i
Kushal Das: Job alert: Associate Site Reliability Engineer at FPF

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/job-alert-associate-site-reliability-engineer-at-fpf.html



We (at Freedom of the Press Foundation) are looking
for an Associate Site Reliability Engineer.
This position is open to junior and entry-level applicants, and we recognize
the need to provide on-th
Chris Moffitt: New Plot Types in Seaborn’s Latest Release

Link: http://pbpython.com/seaborn09.html


Introduction
Seaborn is one of the go-to tools for statistical data visualization in python.
It has been actively developed since 2012 and in July 2018, the author released version 0.9.
This version
Real Python: Dictionaries in Python

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

Python provides another composite data type called a dictionary, which is similar to a list in that it is a collection of objects.
Here’s what you’ll learn in this tutorial: You’ll cover the basic cha
Matthew Rocklin: Building SAGA optimization for Dask arrays

Link: https://matthewrocklin.com/blog//work/2018/08/07/incremental-saga

This work is supported by ETH Zurich, Anaconda
Inc, and the Berkeley Institute for Data
Science
At a recent Scikit-learn/Scikit-image/Dask sprint at BIDS, Fabian Pedregosa (a
machine learning research
Kushal Das: vcrpy for web related tests

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/vcrpy-for-web-related-tests.html



Couple of weeks ago, Jen pointed me to
vcrpy. This is a
Python implementation of Ruby’s library with same name.
What is vcrpy?
It is a Python module which helps to write faster and simple tests invo
Talk Python to Me: #173 Coming into Python from another Industry (part 1)

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/173/coming-into-python-from-another-industry-part-1

Not everyone comes to software development and Python through 4-year computer science programs at universities. This episode highlights one alternative journey into Python.
Nikola: Nikola v8.0.0b3 is out!

Link: https://getnikola.com/blog/nikola-v800b3-is-out.html

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate
availability of Nikola v8.0.0b3. This is the third and hopefully final
beta of Nikola v8. The big change in this release is the ado
Bhishan Bhandari: Python map() built-in

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheTaraNights/~3/2-Jjz6X0AH0/

Map makes an iterator that takes a function and uses the arguments from the following iterables passed to the map built-in. What makes this possible is the equal status of every object in Python. One
Mike Driscoll: Python 101: Episode #19 – The subprocess module

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/08/08/7676/


In this screencast, we will learn the basics of Python’s subprocess module. Feel free to read the book that this video is based on here: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or purchase the book on Le
Gocept Weblog: Saltlabs Sprint: Zope and Plone sprint in a new location

Link: https://blog.gocept.com/2018/07/09/saltlabs-sprint-zope-and-plone-sprint-in-a-new-location/

After Earl Zope II is now nearly relocated to the Python 3 wonderland, gocept will move to a new head quarter in the next months. This is the right time to celebrate with a new sprint, as we have now
Bhishan Bhandari: Python filter() built-in

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheTaraNights/~3/7Fcpc_uAJ8g/

Filter makes an iterator that takes a function and uses the arguments from the following iterable passed to the filter built-in. It returns a filtered iterator which contains only those values for whi
PyCharm: PyCharm 2018.2.1 Out Now

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/8FiVZUy6VXM/

The latest version of PyCharm is now available: get PyCharm 2018.2.1 from our website now.
New in This Version

An issue on Linux where part of the window wouldn’t be redrawn correctly has been resolv
Real Python: Python Community Interview With Mike Driscoll

Link: https://realpython.com/interview-mike-driscoll/

Welcome to the first in a series of interviews with members of the Python community.
If you don’t already know me, my name is Ricky, and I’m the Community Manager here at Real Python. I’m a relatively
PyCharm: PyCharm and pytest-bdd

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/Ll2oyVj3mKs/

Last week we published a blog post on the new pytest fixture support in PyCharm 2018.2. This feature was a big part of the 2018.2 work and proved to be a hit. But it wasn’t the only notable pytest wor