Issue #233: Makefiles
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News

PyPy 5.4.1 bugfix released
Upgrade your PyPy versions as a bugfix release has been issued. Click through for all the details.
blogspot.ca
Shared by @mgrouchy

Discussion

Modules should never raise core Python exceptions
reddit.com
Shared by @myusuf3

py3redirect - Chrome extension - Automatically redirects to Python 3 documentation when Python 2 docs page is requested
reddit.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

What level of programming should i have before i start looking for a job?
reddit.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Python Jobs

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Redwood City, CA)
Posted By Synthego.

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Projects

automatron
Autonomous IT Systems Monitoring and Remediation.
github.com
Shared by @madflojo

cmdtree
Yet another cli library , click-like but sub-command friendly and designed for cli auto-generating.
github.com
Shared by @winkidney

searx
A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Young
A full-featured forum software built on Tornado and MongoDB.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

aschedule
Python asyncio job scheduling. Allows you to schedule python co-routines periodically or at a specific time.
gitlab.com
Shared by @myusuf3

lys
Simple HTML templating for Python.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Wtee
Much like the unix tee utility, wtee duplicates standard input to standard output, while also making the piped data viewable on a web page.
readthedocs.io
Shared by @mgrouchy

qbroker
A minimal wrapper for asynchronous, debuggable RPC via AMQP.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Pyextend
This function behaves just the .extend function in Jquery, execpt for all Mapping and Mutable Sequence types (a.k.a dicts and lists). This means you can how get deep and shallow copies of your dicts and lists in python.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

vgg-benchmarks
Simple benchmark of deep learning frameworks on VGG-16.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Articles

Conda: Myths and Misconceptions
Have any preconceived notions about Conda? Dispel those myths and misconceptions now.
github.io
Shared by @_hdra

Deep Exploration into Python: Lets Review the Dict Module
Buzzfeed isn't just for food videos and memes, on their tech blog they take a deep dive into the Python dict module.
buzzfeed.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Python Packaging at PayPal
Learn about Python packaging at Paypal.
paypal-engineering.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Dockerizing a Python Django Web Application
From the post, "Get an understanding of how to dockerize your Django application, using the Gunicorn web server, capable of serving thousands of requests in a minute."
semaphoreci.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

OCR with Django and Tesseract
machinalis.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Craigslist and U.S. Rental Housing Markets
Very interesting article on rental housing market in the U.S. using Python and web scraping.
geoffboeing.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Build a Slack Bot that Mimics Your Colleagues with Python
Very cool blog post on Slack bots and mimicry.
hirelofty.com
Shared by @myusuf3

metaRNA
Find target sites for the miRNAs in genomic sequences.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Creating Pandas DataFrames from Lists and Dictionaries
Those of you looking for help on how to manipulate your into Pandas.
pbpython.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Makefiles in Python
Been huge fan since my early days in C, brought it over with me when i made the jump to python.
krzysztofzuraw.com
Shared by @myusuf3

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Makefiles