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PythonFOSDEM 2017 - Call for Proposals
The Python Community has a devroom during the FOSDEM in Brussels in Belgium. The event will take place during the first week-end of February 2017. The submission deadline for the call for proposals is Dec 2 so click through for more details and submit your proposal.
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Micropython v1.8.5 Released
New port to Zephyr, upip runs on baremetal, reduction in code size and much more. Click through for more details.
github.com
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PyDev 5.3.0 Released
Includes Code completion improvements, Validate code with Python 2 & 3 while typing, PyQt5 event loop in interactive console. Click through for more details.
blogspot.ca
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Discussion

lptrace - a tool to trace any running Python program
reddit.com
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Ask Python: Someone who only knows Python has to learn some C++, what should they do?
reddit.com
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What if Flask was async and 6x faster out of the box? Introducing Sanic, for when you gotta go fast!
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Python Jobs

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Projects

hawkpost
Generate links that users can use to submit messages encrypted with your public key.
github.com
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lptrace
strace for Python programs.
github.com
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sanic
Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast. Click through to the README for benchmarks.
github.com
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ssh-audit
SSH server auditing (banner, key exchange, encryption, mac, compression, compatibility, security, etc)
github.com
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ebgan
A tensorflow implementation of Junbo et al's Energy-based generative adversarial network ( EBGAN ) paper.
github.com
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mocker
A crappy imitation of Docker, for teaching purposes.
github.com
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jsane
A saner way to traverse JSON in Python.
github.com
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live-premailer
Live premailer for jinja2 templates.
github.com
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slack-deleter
A simple Flask app that allows a user to quickly delete all the files they have access to in their slack team, in a matter of seconds.
github.com
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rds-pgbadger
Fetch logs from RDS instance, and process them with pgBadger.
github.com
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wikischolar
Look up historical article quality data for Wikipedia articles.
github.com
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slotter
Python library to slot items into pre-defined slots.
github.com
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Articles

Static types in Python, oh my(py)!
An introduction to mypy and how mypy can help ease the switch to Python 3.
zulip.org
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Fixing Python Performance with Rust
This is cool. From the crew at Sentry, this is nice look at improving Python performance by exposing Rust libraries in your Python code.
sentry.io
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Don't keep important data in your Celery queue
Lessons about dealing with Data in Celery.
caktusgroup.com
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Debugging C extension memory safety with valgrind
Not much to say here except that if you are debugging C extensions in Python, to check out this post.
tumblr.com
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NumPy Tutorial: Data analysis with Python
Great NumPy Tutorial learn about some NumPy data types and how to work with them.
dataquest.io
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Fuzzy search with MongoDB and Python
A simple tutorial to get you started creating your own fuzzy search with Python and MongoDB.
medium.com
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Solving Performance Problems in the Django ORM
Good tips on how to track down and deal with Performance problems in the Django ORM.
medium.com
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Asynchronous Scraping with Python
gregreda.com
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