Issue #252

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Feb. 2, 2017

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Pyston 0.6.1, streamalert, sceptre, sports analytics and much more.

Issue #252: Nest

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News


Pyston 0.6.1 released, and future plans
This latest release contains performance enhancements over 0.6, bringing Pyston to 95% faster than CPython on standard benchmarks. In other news though, dropbox is no longer sponsoring further releases, so it remains to be seen where the project goes from here.
pyston.org
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Anaconda 4.3.0 released
More details after the jump!
continuum.io
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Discussion


My coworker just wrote this. Today was a good day.
reddit.com
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A journey to make Python with HTTP screaming fast which resulted in a new web micro-framework.
reddit.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

Why is python3 adoption slow even though there are tools for migration?
reddit.com
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Projects


tweets_analyzer
Tweets metadata scraper & activity analyzer.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

streamalert
StreamAlert is a serverless, realtime data analysis framework which empowers you to ingest, analyze, and alert on data from any environment, using datasources and alerting logic you define.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

cmdchallenge
A repository for one-line bash commands.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

sceptre
Build better AWS infrastructure.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

deep-makeover
Deep learning project to transform male portraits into female and vice versa.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

rpi-appliance-monitor
Device to monitor appliances that vibrate, such as clothes dryers or garage door openers.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

fast-style-transfer
Fast Style Transfer in TensorFlow! ⚡🖥🎨🖼
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

imgkit
🎆 Wkhtmltoimage python wrapper to convert html to image.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

W.I.L.L
A python written personal assistant.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

MLAlchemy
Python library to convert YAML/JSON into SQLAlchemy SELECT queries.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

wsstat
Websocket stress testing made beautiful.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

pycycle
Tool for pinpointing circular imports in Python. Find cyclic imports in any project
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

Articles


Python Functions Aren't What You Think
Cool article on perspectives and inner workings of Python.
powerfulpython.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

Using Apache Spark for Sports Analytics
Primer on Apache Spark for NBA data.
pivotal.io
Shared by @myusuf3
 

The Tao of Python
The intricate relationship between "object" and "type" and how metaclasses, classes and instances are related.
jupyter.org
Shared by @myusuf3
 

A million requests per second with Python
Impressive!
freecodecamp.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

how to use vim as a python ide
YAVU (yet another vim user) but you know us – we love vim.
liuchengxu.org
Shared by @myusuf3
 

Finding leaking tests with pytest
damn, got tests leaking gigabytes of data this little wrapper may help.
github.io
Shared by @myusuf3
 
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