Issue #168: Switch

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Komodo 9.1 Released
This release boasts a ton of new features such as package manager integration and shell scopes! As a pycoder's subscriber we are extending you 15% discount with PYCODERS15 in June!
komodoide.com
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Mark Hammond Receives Distinguished Service Award
Congratulations to Mark Hammond for recieving Distinguished Service Award from the PSF.
blogspot.ca
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PyCon Australia Early Bird Registrations Now Open!
PyCon Australia is happening July 31st - August 4th. Early bird registration is open now!
pycon-au.org
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Spark 1.4.0 Released
Spark 1.4.0 Released with Python 3 support.
apache.org
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Discussion

Why Doesn't Python Have Switch/Case?
reddit.com
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Jobs

Flash/Flex Engineer (Seattle, WA)
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Projects

crashreporter
CrashReporter creates reports from the traceback if your python code crashes. The reports can be uploaded directly to the developers via email or FTP.
github.com
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supycache
A decorator that enables caching of a functions return values either in memory or using a dedicating caching server like Memcached or Redis.
github.com
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scripthookvpy3k
Cool! Plugin for Grand Theft Auto V which allows you to execute Python 3 scripts in game!
github.com
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ob-ipython
For your Emacs users. From the README - "An Emacs library that allows Org mode to evaluate Python code blocks using an IPython kernel."
github.com
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rcontrol
python library to execute asynchronous remote tasks with ssh.
github.com
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chainer
A flexible framework of neural networks for deep learning
github.com
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data-science-ipython-notebooks
This is a pretty incredible project that continually updates python notebook showing off functionality of pretty awesome open source projects!
github.com
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FBEraser
Free yourself and delete your Facebook Posts.
github.com
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Articles

The Minimum Viable Test Suite
A nice guide of doing Risk Based Testing in your flask application.
realpython.com
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PyQt/PySide and QtDesigner tutorial
This is great. A very detailed tutorial to get starting creating a User Interface in QtDesigner for your PyQt/PySide apps.
nikolak.com
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Least frequently used cache eviction scheme with complexity O(1) in Python
Detailed look at the implementation of a least frequently used cache eviction scheme with complexity O(1) in Python.
laurentluce.com
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Collecting Data with Google Forms and Pandas - Practical Business Python
Nice article when it gets to processing the data at least! For those of you who have to consume data from google forms and like pandas worth a look!
pbpython.com
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Why Doesn't Python Have Switch/Case?
A look at that age old question plaguing Python developers.
pydanny.com
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The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 2): SQLAlchemy
AOSA has another great chapter about how SQLAlchemy works!
aosabook.org
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Computational Statistics in Python
Nice little introduction to statistics in Python all the way up from a introduction to Python itself!
duke.edu
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Integration Testing in Python with Context Managers
Nice article on the importance and process around TDD for complex Python systems! Special focus on using context managers to mimic complex systems.
eigenhombre.com
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