Issue #431 (July 28, 2020) (24)

Sans-I/O: When Rubber Meets the Road The creator of the websockets library shares pain points encountered and lessons learned while porting websockets to a Sans-I/O design. AYMERIC AUGUSTIN • Shared by Florimond Manca

Sparking Joy With Python After a fling with TypeScript, one Python programmer shares some thoughts on keeping the flame alive with Python. MAXWELL FORBES

Python 3.8.5 Released as a Security Hotfix Python 3.9.0b5, the last beta before 3.9.0, is also available. PYTHON.ORG

Abigail Dogbe Awarded the PSF Community Service Award for Q1 2020 One woman’s passion and dedication have helped transform PyLadies in Ghana, leading to over 500 women joining the organization. CHARLES FREEBORN

What’s the Most Interesting Data Set You’ve Ever Used? I guess that depends on what you mean by “interesting”… REDDIT

The Most Remarkable Legacy System I Have Seen Forget about your shiny new frameworks. Welcome to the Real World™. THEHFTGUY.COM

Generative Adversarial Networks: Build Your First Models In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn all about one of the most exciting areas of research in the field of machine learning: generative adversarial networks. You’ll learn the basics of how GANs are structured and trained before implementing your own generative model using PyTorch. REAL PYTHON

LogDNA <3 DevOps: Manage Logs on Your Terms Ingest logs with turnkey integrations. Retain only what matters to you. Auto-parse common formats, and set up custom parsing for not-so-common ones. Check out this deep dive into optimizing Python structured logs from a serverless perspective → LOGDNA sponsor

Goodwill Hunting More than you ever wanted to know about women’s tops at Goodwill. Check out the accompanying Jupyter notebook. J. PETER

Python’s None: Null in Python In this course, you’ll learn about the NoneType object None, which acts as the null in Python. This object represents emptiness, and you can use it to mark default parameters and even show when you have no result. None is a tool for doing everything with nothing! REAL PYTHON

Handling More Than 200 Transactions Per Second Using python-rq Efficiently processing large amounts of web traffic can be a difficult problem to solve. Learn how one team met their requirements using Redis queues. SANKALP JONNA

Recap of PyCon 2020 Converting to Online A virtual event takes just as much planning to pull together, and even more communication with presenters and sponsors than you might expect. JACKIE AUGUSTINE

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #19: Advanced Python Import Techniques and Managing Users in Django Would you like to clearly understand what’s happening when you use the Python import keyword? Do you want to use modules more effectively to structure your code? Or maybe you’re ready to move to the next level with your Django project by adding user management. This week on...

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