Issue #426 (June 23, 2020) (37)

Hands-On Linear Programming: Optimization With Python In this tutorial, you’ll learn about implementing optimization in Python with linear programming libraries. Linear programming is one of the fundamental mathematical optimization techniques. You’ll use SciPy and PuLP to solve linear programming problems. REAL PYTHON

OpenSafely: Using Python, SQL and Docker to Understand Coronavirus Health Data Django and Payton developers teamed up with clinicians and researchers to release a new analytics platform called OpenSafely that allows researchers to analyze NHS health records from over 24 million people In the UK. With strict safety and privacy standards, OpenSafely may help redefine how medical data is analyzed and shared. JO BEST

Working From Home? 7 Coding-Related Tools to Keep Kids Busy ActiveState has curated a list of coding-related toys and tools to keep your kids productively busy, so that you can get your own programming tasks done. Check out the list, including ActiveState’s platform for building Python runtimes. → ACTIVESTATE sponsor

PEP 618 Accepted for Python 3.10: Add Optional Length-Checking to zip() PEP 618, which adds a new strict parameter to the built-in zip() function that optionally enforces same-length iterables, has been accepted for Python 3.10. Read the acceptance letter here and some interesting discussion about the PEP on Reddit. PYTHON.ORG

Pickle’s Nine Flaws “Python’s pickle module is a very convenient way to serialize and de-serialize objects. It needs no schema, and can handle arbitrary Python objects. But it has problems. This post briefly explains the problems.” NED BATCHELDER

PyLadies India Embarked On Its Journey On June 20th, 2020 PyLadies India held their first Meetup featuring a talk by CPython Core Contributor Mariatta Wijaya. Organizer Anwesha Das recounts her PyLadies journey and the steps the organization took to make the meetup a reality. ANWESHA DAS

Securing a Containerized Django Application with Let’s Encrypt Secure a containerized Django app running behind an HTTPS Nginx proxy with Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates. TESTDRIVEN.IO • Shared by Jan Giacomelli

Advanced pytest Techniques I Learned While Contributing to pandas Contributing to open-source projects is a great way to learn new techniques and level up your skills. Martin Winkel shares five advanced pytest techniques he learned while contributing to the pandas project. MARTIN WINKEL

NumPy 1.19.0 Is Now Available Version 1.19.0 drops support for Python 3.5 and below, including Python 2. NUMPY.ORG

Draw With Your CPU (Code Golf) Here’s a challenge: draw the word “MAIL” on your operating system CPU usage graph. Can you think of a simple way to do it with Python? Read on and get your mind blown with a fun round of code golf. STACKEXCHANGE.COM

Property Testing With Complex Inputs Property based testing is a powerful tool for generating test data and probing edge cases. Once you’ve learned the basics of a framework like Hypothesis, though, you might be left wondering how to generate complex data needed to test real world applications. Learn about several strategies in this intermediate-level tutorial. HILLEL WAYNE

Generating Cooking Recipes Using TensorFlow and LSTM Recurrent Neural Network: A Step-By-Step Guide Learn about LSTM (Long short-term memory) and RNN (Recurrent Neural Network) techniques while building a recipe generator so that you too can enjoy delicious creations like “Cream Soda with Onions” and “Salmon Mousse of Beef and Stilton Salad with Jalapeños.” OLEKSII TREKHLEB

PySimpleGUI: The Simple Way to Create a GUI With Python In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a cross-platform graphical user interface (GUI) using Python and PySimpleGUI. A graphical user interface is an application that has buttons, windows, and lots of other elements that the user can use to interact with your application. REAL PYTHON

Creating a Discord Bot in Python In this course, you’ll learn how to make a Discord bot in Python and interact with several APIs. You’ll learn how to handle events, accept commands, validate and verify input, and all the basics that can help you create useful and exciting automations! REAL PYTHON course

Implementing Proxy Pattern in Python The proxy pattern is a design pattern that promotes loose coupleing and enhanced testabaility. Learn how to use this pattern in Python and when you might want to do so. REDOWAN DELOWAR • Shared by Redowan Delowar

All the Things You Can Do With GitHub API and Python Learn how to use GitHub’s Python client to create issues, gists, upload files, and more. MARTIN HEINZ • Shared by Martin Heinz

Web Scraping in 5 Minutes With Python & Excel Compare web scraping Audible audiobook data in both Python and Excel. COREY J. GALLON • Shared by Corey J. Gallon

PyGotham Call for Proposals Open Until July 5 PyGotham TV is the online version of NYC’s annual Python conference. It will take place this October 2nd and 3rd. The call for talk proposals is open now through July 5. You could propose an infomercial, a talk show, a comedy routine, a sitcom, or just a regular tech talk about Python or any technology subject...

Profile, Understand & Optimize Code Performance with Blackfire.io Blackfire is a deterministic profiler, measuring how code consumes resources at run-time. Appealing graphs & UI enable you to find performance bottlenecks & understand the code’s behavior. Works on production, test/staging & development with no overhead. BLACKFIRE sponsor