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PyPy 5.1 Released PyPy 5.1 has been released, click through for more details including a large number of fixes and features included in this latest release. blogspot.ca Shared by @mgrouchy
setuptools-tasks A package that augments setuptools commands with common tasks useful while developing and building python packages. github.com Shared by @mgrouchy
arclib A unified API for accessing Python's many supported archive formats, supports bzip, gzip, LZMA, zip and tar. github.com Shared by @mgrouchy
colornet neural network to colorize grayscale images; this is how the machines start to see. github.com Shared by @myusuf3
pycraft A fork of "Minecraft in 500 lines of python" intended to be used as a real engine, instead of as a learning example. github.com Shared by @myusuf3
cloud-custodian policy rules engine for aws management, policies in yaml for query, filter, and take actions on resources github.com Shared by @myusuf3
pyflirt map file generator for intel x86 binary based on flirt signature github.com Shared by @myusuf3
JARVIS-on-Messenger A community-driven python bot that aims to be as simple as possible to serve humans with their everyday tasks. github.com Shared by @myusuf3
Idiomatic Python: boolean expressions Another nice article from the team at Microsoft Python Engineering team (who would have though I would have ever wrote those words). Learn about writing boolean expressions in idiomatic Python. microsoft.com Shared by @mgrouchy
Composition over Inheritance The debate continues, Composition or Inheritance, this article looks at them both with an eye towards composition over inheritance in Python. masnun.com Shared by @mgrouchy
Building a (semi) Autonomous Drone with Python Seems like drones are all anyone is talking about these days. Learn to build a semi-autonomous drone with AR Drone 2.0, Python and a bunch of Python libraries like scipy, cv2 and more. yhat.com Shared by @mgrouchy