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Django Weblog: Django bugfix releases issued: 3.2.3, 3.1.11, and 2.2.23

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2021/may/13/bugfix-releases/

Today we've issued
3.2.3,
3.1.11, and
2.2.23 bugfix releases.
The release package and checksums are available from our downloads page, as well as from the Python Package Index. The PGP key ID used fo
Python for Beginners: Why we need comments in Python

Link: https://www.pythonforbeginners.com/comments/why-we-need-comments-in-python


Comments are the statements which are included in the source code but don’t contribute to program logic. A python comment is not executed by the interpreter and it can only be accessed when we have a
Python Engineering at Microsoft: The Pylance language server has reached stable!

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/pylance-has-reached-stable/

We’re excited to announce that Pylance, our fast and feature-rich language support for Python in Visual Studio Code, is now officially out of preview and has reached its first stable release.
Join us
Ben Cook: How to Use the PyTorch Sigmoid Operation

Link: https://jbencook.com/pytorch-sigmoid/

The PyTorch sigmoid function is an element-wise operation that squishes any real number into a range between 0 and 1. This is a very common activation function to use as the last layer of binary class
Python Software Foundation: The 2021 Python Language Summit

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/_-8J6H4Mr-o/the-2021-python-language-summit.html

Every year, a small group of core developers from Python implementations such as CPython, PyPy, Jython, and more come together to share information, discuss problems, and seek consensus in order to he
AI Pool: Understanding Autoencoders - An Unsupervised Learning approach

Link: https://ai-pool.com/a/s/understanding-autoencoders---an-unsupervised-learning-approach

This article covers the concept of Autoencoders. Concepts like What are Autoencoders, Architecture of an Autoencoder, and intuition behind the training of Autoencoders.
Python Software Foundation: The 2021 Python Language Summit: Welcome, Introductions, Guidelines

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/d6dgSmSBl6M/the-2021-python-language-summit-welcome.html

As attendees slowly filtered into the virtual event leading up to the official start time, they were clearly happy to see each other and have the chance to get together virtually even though PyCon US
Test and Code: 153: Playwright for Python: end to end testing of web apps - Ryan Howard

Link: https://testandcode.com/153

Playwright is an end to end automated testing framework for web apps with Python support and even a pytest plugin.Special Guest: Ryan Howard.Sponsored By:PyCharm Professional: Try PyCharm Pro for 4 mo
Nicola Iarocci: Flask 2.0

Link: https://nicolaiarocci.com/flask-2.0/

Flask 2.0 has just been released. Along with it come many other major satellite releases: Werkzeug 2.0, Jinja 3.0, Click 8.0, ItsDangerous 2.0, and MarkupSafe 2.0.
Across all projects, Python 3.6+ is
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #60: Building a Platform Game With Arcade and Covering Python News Monthly

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/60/

Did you know the Python Software Foundation is hiring! With the recent support of three Visionary Sponsors, the PSF has been able to open positions for a developer-in-residence and a Python packaging
Django Weblog: Django 4.x Technical Board Election Results

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2021/may/14/django-4x-technical-board-election-results/

The Technical Board for the Django 4.x release cycle will be

Andrew Godwin
Florian Apolloner
Simon Charette
Adam Johnson
Thomas Forbes

Congratulations to the new board and a special thank you to dep
Thomas Guest: Tripped up by Rstrip

Link: http://wordaligned.org/articles/tripped-up-by-rstrip

Here’s a simple function which is supposed to strip any ".jpg" extension
from a file name.

def photo_name(photo_file):
"Return the name of the photo"
return photo_file.rstrip('.jpg')

assert
Talk Python to Me: #316 Flask 2.0

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/316/flask-2.0

Flask is one of the most popular Python web frameworks. And they have huge news to share with us. Flask 2.0 just released after a ton of work. And it's as big of a deal as the version number suggests.
Peter Bengtsson: The correct way to index data into Elasticsearch with (Python) elasticsearch-dsl

Link: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/index-data-into-elasticsearch-dsl

A summary of best practices for indexing into Elasticsearch with Python elasticsearch-dsl using aliases.
Python Pool: Moving Average Python | Tool for Time Series data

Link: https://www.pythonpool.com/moving-average-python/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=moving-average-python

Moving Average in Python is a convenient tool that helps smooth out our data based on variations. In sectors such as science, economics, and finance, Moving Average is widely used in Python. In a laym
Ben Cook: Basic Counting in Python

Link: https://jbencook.com/counting-in-python/

I love fancy machine learning algorithms as much as anyone. But sometimes, you just need to count things. And Python’s built-in data structures make this really easy. Let’s say we have a list of strin
Ben Cook: Binary Cross Entropy Explained

Link: https://jbencook.com/binary-cross-entropy/

The most common loss function for training a binary classifier is binary cross entropy (sometimes called log loss). You can implement it in NumPy as a one-liner:
def binary_cross_entropy(yhat: np.ndar
"Morphex's Blogologue": An IMAP migration script

Link: http://blogologue.com/blog_entry?id=1620582828X36

So, last December I got an email from the email hosting provider for Nidelven IT that the email server would be taken down in 6 months time.I didn't like the timing, as I was in court process, the thi
Python Pool: Voluptuous Python Library An Aid for Data Validation

Link: https://www.pythonpool.com/voluptuous-python/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=voluptuous-python

Python libraries are reusable sets of code that we can include in our program without writing the entire code. There are over 137,000 libraries in python like Tensorflow, Numpy, Keras, PyTorch, Scikit
Brett Cannon: Unravelling the `pass` statement

Link: https://snarky.ca/unravelling-the-pass-statement/

This is the next past in my series on Python&aposs syntactic sugar. It&aposs unfortunately been a while since my last post due to Python 3.10 and PyCon US 2021 taking up a lot of my time. But with tho