Issue #230

Floating Point

Aug. 19, 2016

Floating Point
New Python alpha, pypy tooling, and much more.

Issue #230: Floating Point

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Python 3.6.0a4 Released!
Follow the link for more details on this latest alpha release!
python.org
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PyDev 5.2.0 released
The latest PyDev is out, including static type declarations, debugger fixes and IPython 5 support in interactive console. Click through for more details.
blogspot.ca
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PyPy Tooling Upgrade
PyPy announces a major JitViewer update. Details in the post.
blogspot.ca
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Discussion


One of the neatest python tricks I've ever seen: ordereddict syntactic sugar
reddit.com
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What the most well designed, written and tested Python code base you've come across? GitHub repos are encouraged!
reddit.com
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Python Packaging Is Good Now
reddit.com
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Python Jobs


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Projects


ray
A framework that helps you to deliver well-designed python APIs.
github.com
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giraffez
User-friendly Teradata client for Python.
github.com
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attrs
ython Attributes Without Boilerplate.
github.com
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lackey
Graphical desktop automation with Python.
github.com
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jellyfish
A python library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.
github.com
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cohesion
A tool for measuring Python class cohesion.
github.com
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placebo
Highly reusable API mocks for python applications.
github.com
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bowtie
Create a dashboard with python!
github.com
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tv-overlord
Download and manage tv shows.
github.com
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imgd
Multiprocessing batch image resizer and rotator.
github.com
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hyper
HTTP/2 for Python.
github.com
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deep-regex
ode for the paper Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language with Minimal Domain Knowledge (EMNLP 2016). http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03000.
github.com
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pyhooked
Pure Python hotkey hook, with thanks to pyHook and pyhk.
github.com
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omdb-cli
A command line tool for omdb.
github.com
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Articles


Lists vs. Tuples
What's the difference between a list and a tuple?
nedbatchelder.com
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How to score 0.8134 in Titanic Kaggle Challenge
ahmedbesbes.com
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Introducing {py}gradle, an open source Python plugin for Gradle
An introduction to Linkedin's {Py}gradle library.
linkedin.com
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Python Packaging Is Good Now
Stop laughing Python packaging is good now.
twistedmatrix.com
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Interactive Data Visualization of Geospatial Data
Tutorial for building interactive visualizations of geospatial data D3.js, DC.js, Leaflet.js and Python.
adilmoujahid.com
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The One Python Library Everyone Needs
What does Glyph of Twisted fame, believe is the one Python library everyone should be using.
twistedmatrix.com
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