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News

Django security releases issued: 1.11.5 and 1.10.8
Update your versions! Just in case you missed this last week.
djangoproject.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

The Incredible Growth of Python
Python usage is growing like crazy. Interesting stats here!
stackoverflow.blog
Shared by @mgrouchy

Discussion

PEP 557 -- Data Classes
reddit.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Jobs

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Projects

git-siren
The aim of this project is to turn on a REAL beacon light when a new urgent issue is created!.
github.com
Shared by @pimuzzo

ice
Ice - WSGI on the rocks.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

speechpy
SpeechPy - A Library for Speech Processing and Recognition.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

PyBV
A Python Implementation of the BV Homomorphic Encryption Scheme.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

janus
A minimalist argument-parsing library for Python.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

future-fstrings
A backport of fstrings to python<3.6.
github.com
Shared by @nicoddemus

awx
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is the upstream project for Tower, a commercial derivative of AWX.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

DeepRecommender
Deep learning for recommender systems.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

allennlp
An open-source NLP research library, built on PyTorch.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

agents
Efficient Batched Reinforcement Learning in TensorFlow.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

tensorly
Tensor Learning in Python.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

loop
A method to generate speech across multiple speakers.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Articles

The Tale of Creating a Distributed Web Crawler
benbernardblog.com
Shared by @mbenbernard

How to Generate FiveThirtyEight Graphs in Python
Emulate FiveThirtyEight's visualization styles with Python, matplotlib and pandas.
dataquest.io
Shared by @mgrouchy

How Python does Unicode
Everything you needed to know about Python and unicode.
b-list.org
Shared by @myusuf3

A First Exercise in Natural Language Processing with Python: Counting Hapaxes
catswhisker.xyz
Shared by @mgrouchy

Extending Python With C Libraries and the â€œctypesâ€ Module
Explore basics of ctypes like loading C libraries, calling a simple C function, passing mutable and immutable strings and managing memory.
dbader.org
Shared by @myusuf3

Let me introduce: __slots__
Time to learn about slots!
chrisbarra.xyz
Shared by @mgrouchy

Building a graph of flights from airport codes in tweets
nvbn.github.io
Shared by @mgrouchy

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