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News

Jython 2.7.1 release candidate 2 released!
Check it out and report any issues!
fwierzbicki.blogspot.ca
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PyGotham 2017
PyGotham takes place October 6-8 in New York City! CFP is now open. Submit your talks at https://www.papercall.io/pygotham-2017.
pygotham.org
Shared by @PyGotham

SciPy 2017 Conference
SciPy 2017 is coming up at July 6-10, Austin, TX. Go to learn more about the new scientific tools available for Python.
scipy.org
Shared by @scipyconf

Discussion

Heroku switching default to v3.6.1
reddit.com
Shared by @myusuf3

How do I distribute a .py file AND its dependencies for a layman to run?
reddit.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

With AMD and Intel announcing more threads (32), is the GIL becomming a "bigger" problem?
reddit.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Jobs

Tech Lead - Python/Django (London, England)
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Python/Django Developer (Washington, DC)
Posted By Industry Dive.

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Projects

scratchdir
Context manager to maintain your temporary directories.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

pydantic
Data validation using Python 3.6 type hinting.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

flask-tiddly
Minimal, prototype RESTful server for basic CRUD transactions.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Pokemon-Terminal
Pokemon terminal themes for iTerm2.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

spark-deep-learning
Deep Learning Pipelines for Apache Spark.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

pdf-redact-tools
a set of tools to help with securely redacting and stripping metadata from documents before publishing.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

gain
Web crawling framework based on asyncio for everyone.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

proximityhash
Geohashes in proximity.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

ottertune
The automatic DBMS configuration tool.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

spans
Spans is a pure Python implementation of PostgreSQL's range types.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

snaptile
Versatile window tiling for X11 with powerful keyboard controls.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

validus
A dead simple Python data validation library.
github.com
Shared by @shopnilsazal

Articles

Python Package Management for the Paranoid
Great article about signing your python packages with GPG/PGP before distributing them.
medium.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit
Learn about the history of code deploys at Reddit, some of the problems encountered and how they dealt with those problems.
redditblog.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Records, Structs, and Data Transfer Objects in Python
"How to implement records, structs, and â€œplain old data objectsâ€ in Python using only built-in data types and classes from the standard library."
dbader.org
Shared by @dbader_org

Safe Crime Prediction
iamtrask.github.io
Shared by @myusuf3

Predicting Football Results With Statistical Modelling
dashee87.github.io
Shared by @mgrouchy

Memcached for Django
Get up and running with Memcached in your django project.
medium.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Visualizing data - overlaying charts in python
Nice quick guide to overlaying multiple charts in Python with matplotlib, pandas and numpy.
pythondata.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

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