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PyPy2.7 v5.6 Released!
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MicroPython v1.8.6 Released!
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Django Under The Hood [Videos]
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Discussion

If the Pyglet community is dead, and Pygame is not very "Pythonic"; what are the alternatives?
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A list of the best Python podcasts!
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Projects

visidata
A console spreadsheet tool for discovering and arranging data
github.com
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MLAlgorithms
Minimal and clean examples of machine learning algorithms
github.com
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gmvault
gmail backup software
github.com
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cligenerator
Generate a CLI tool from a Python module/function
github.com
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superset
Superset is a data exploration platform designed to be visual, intuitive, and interactive.
github.com
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keyboard
Hook and simulate global keyboard events on Windows and Linux.
github.com
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loco
Share localhost through SSH. Local/Remote port forwarding made easy.
github.com
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flintrock
A command-line tool for launching Apache Spark clusters.
github.com
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altify
Uses deep learning to caption images in an HTML file and fills out its alternative text attributes with the related caption. Very cool check out examples in README.
github.com
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Articles

Become a pdb Power User
Awesome primer on the awesomness that is pdb.
medium.com
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Building a Slack Bot to Talk with a Raspberry Pi in Python
Cool article that could be pretty easily be extended to your servers in production.
benjie.me
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Create an Excellent Python Environment.
A way to get your development environment bootstrapped and started!
dougalmatthews.com
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Load Testing with Locust
Getting started with Locust, and scaling up your production systems.
promptworks.com
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How to Scrape Javascript Rendered Websites with Python & Selenium
Getting started on spinning up headless browsers and scraping data!
medium.com
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Handling Unicode Strings in Python
Yet Another Unicode String Post
emacsos.com
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The Trusted Packaging Index
A proposal for funding PyPI infrastructure and development!
medium.com
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How Python Makes Working With Data More Difficult in the Long Run
Interesting take on Python and Data.
jeffknupp.com
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