Issue #384 (Sept. 3, 2019) (37)

Natural Language Processing With spaCy in Python In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn how to use spaCy. This free and open-source library for Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python has a lot of built-in capabilities and is becoming increasingly popular for processing and analyzing data in NLP. REAL PYTHON

An Empirical Analysis of the Python Package Index (PDF) “In this research, we provide a comprehensive empirical summary of the Python Package Repository, PyPI, including both package metadata and source code covering 178,592 packages, 1,745,744 releases, 76,997 contributors, and 156,816,750 import statements.” ARXIV.ORG • Shared by Python Bytes FM

Teaching an Old Pythonista New Gopher Tricks (Go vs Python) “So in conclusion, Python may not be a Gopher Snake but for this task it does rather eat Go for breakfast.” ED CREWE opinion

Adding Actions to a PEG Grammar Part 6 of Guido’s series on PEG parsers. GUIDO VAN ROSSUM

Python Rounds Float Values by Converting Them to String and Then Back Interesting CPython tidbit—apparently this really is a good way to implement floating point rounding in practice. YCOMBINATOR.COM

“Some people want to throw a party when Python 2.7 expires at the end of the year…” RAYMOND HETTINGER

Lists and Tuples in Python Cover the important characteristics of lists and tuples in Python 3. You’ll learn how to define them and how to manipulate them. When you’re finished, you’ll have a good feel for when and how to use these data structures in a Python program. REAL PYTHON video

Python for NLP: Working With Facebook FastText Library “In this article, we are going to study FastText which is another extremely useful module for word embedding and text classification. FastText has been developed by Facebook and has shown excellent results on many NLP problems, such as semantic similarity detection and text classification.” USMAN MALIK

2019 Pandas User Survey “Pandas recently contucted a user survey to help guide future development. Thanks to everyone who participated! This post presents the high-level results.” PANDAS.IO • Shared by Python Bytes FM

Searching for Awesome TED Talks With Django + Elasticsearch Learn the basics of Elasticsearch: what it is, how to run it, how to communicate with it, and how to integrate it into a simple Django application. DENIS OREHOVSKY • Shared by Denis Orehovsky

Build a Simple ChatBot With Python and Google Search Build a simple, full-stack ChatBot using Google Search as the AI. Python is our language of choice and we build a web page to access the API. LELAND ZACH

Designing Continuous Build Systems: Docker Swarm Orchestration How to orchestrate continuous integration builds and test execution in a Docker Swarm using Python and the docker module. TRYEXCEPTPASS.ORG • Shared by Cristian Medina

Python Decorator With Arguments A simple example which explains how to create a decorator function that accepts and uses arguments. J-O ERIKSSON

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