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News

EuroPython 2017: Talk voting results
The results for EuroPython 2017 talk voting are in, click through to learn more.
europython.eu
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Pandas v0.20.1 Released.
Chick through for all the details of this release!
pandas-docs.github.io
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Kivy 1.10.0 Released
Follow the link for more details.
kivy.org
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Discussion

Worth the switch to Pycharm?
reddit.com
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10 awesome features of Python that you can't use because you refuse to upgrade to Python 3
reddit.com
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Jobs

Tech Lead - Python/Django (London, England)
Posted By YunoJuno. Promoted

Software Engineer - Python/Geospatial (London, England)
Posted By Pole Star Space Applications LTD. Promoted

Senior Software Engineer (Remote or Onsite)
Posted By The Advisory Board Company.

Engineering Manager, Product (San Francisco, CA)
Posted By DoorDash.

Engineering Manager, Infrastructure (San Francisco, CA)
Posted By DoorDash.

Senior Software Engineer - Python (Boston, MA)
Posted By GreatCall.

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Projects

Deformable-ConvNets
Deformable Convolutional Networks.
github.com
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AssistantPi
Bring both Google Assistant and Alexa to yor RPi.
github.com
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pocket-archive-stream
ðŸ—„ Save an archived copy of all websites starred using Pocket. Outputs browseable html.
github.com
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ParlAI
A framework for training and evaluating AI models on a variety of openly available dialog datasets.
github.com
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OnlineSchemaChange
A tool for performing online schema changes on MySQL.
github.com
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openai_lab
An experimentation system for Reinforcement Learning using OpenAI Gym, Tensorflow, and Keras.
github.com
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squealy
A micro service for business intelligence and analytics which uses SQL queries to generate reporting APIs with fine-grained security.
github.com
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PyTree
Python package for generating and drawing (fractal)trees.
github.com
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speedml
Speedml is a Python package to speed start machine learning projects.
github.com
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jackhammer
One Security vulnerability assessment.
github.com
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aredis
redis client for Python asyncio (has support for redis server, sentinel and cluster).
github.com
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Articles

Building a Simple Birthday App with Flask-SQLAlchemy
Build a birthday tool using Facebooks api.
pybit.es
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The other half of binary search
Learn about binary search and how to think about it!
drmaciver.com
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Adventures in JIT compilation: Part 4 - in Python
A JIT for Brainfuck.
thegreenplace.net
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A game of tokens: write an interpreter in Python with TDD - Part 1
Learn about writing an interpreter in Python, also learn about applying TDD to the process.
thedigitalcatonline.com
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The Many Layers of Packaging
Learn maybe everything you want to know about Python packaging.
sedimental.org
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4 Python libraries for building great command-line user interfaces.
Lots of popular choices here, check them out!
opensource.com
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