Issue #187

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Oct. 9, 2015

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Issue #186: Servers

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News


six 1.10.0 released
Version 1.10.0 of Six, the Python 2 and 3 compatibility library, has been released. Check it out!
python.org
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

PyPy memory and warmup improvements (2) - Sharing of Guards
A look at some PyPy updates including optimized memory consumption and warmup time improvements.
blogspot.ca
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

PyDev 4.4.0 released
If you are a PyDev user, time to update your versions. PyDev 4.4.0 is out! Click through to the post for more details about this release!
blogspot.com.br
Shared by @myusuf3
 

PyCon Canada 2015 Schedule released
As the title says, if you are attending its time to start picking what talks you are going to attend.
pycon.ca
Shared by @ryan__weir
 

Discussion


Would it be better to use try...except rather than using if...else for error checking?
reddit.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

Jobs

Projects


schedule
Job Scheduling for humans. An alternative to cron and maybe useful in your next project?
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

bqplot
Plotting library for IPython/Jupyter Notebooks open sourced by the team at Bloomberg.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

pywat quiz
Fun little quiz about edgecases and gotchas in Python!
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

graphene
Graphene is a Python library for creating GraphQL schemas/types easily.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

getlyrics
Tool to download lyrics for sounds and output them to STDOUT.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

st2
IFTTT for Ops, pretty amazing, click through to the README for lots of info.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

chcli
A CLI for command line challenges for Hackers. If you are the type of person who loves completing programming challenges, this is for you!
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

sync-engine
A Restful API built on top of an email sync-engine to allow developers to build applications on top of email.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

Pipe
A library to allow the use of infix notation in Python.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

pigar
A sophisticated tool to generate requirements for your Python project.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

onedrive-sdk
A OneDrive sdk for Python for those that want to incorporate OneDrive into your Python applications.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

orthographic-pedant
Useful tool that corrects common typos in Github Pull Requests.
github.com
Shared by @nicoddemus
 

Articles


An Intro to argparse
Learn how to get started with argparse in your next Python application.
pythonlibrary.org
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

Writing a fuzzy receipt parser in Python
Cool article about a hackathon project for scanning receipts. Nice look at implementation, problems and solutions when trying to solve this problem.
trivago.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

Data Science for Losers
Still not sure why this article is for losers, but its a nice introduction to data science tools in Python. Worth the read!
brakmic.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

Importing ipython notebook into another notebook
Simple tutorial that shows you how to import an iPython (jupyter) notebook into another one.
motleytech.net
Shared by @myusuf3
 

LinkedIn Social Authentication in Django
Tutorial to get LinkedIn login working in your Django project.
realpython.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

Making unittests better with Docker
Some nice advice for improving your unittests with docker.
talperry.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

Processing webhook events using Wishbone Part 1: Accept and validate
First part in a series of using Wishbone to process webhooks.
smetj.net
Shared by @smetj
 
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