Sideways

New PSF board members, Python 2.6.2 released, funmath, writing a spell checker and much more.

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News

Python Software Foundation News: Welcome New Board Members
There are six new board members, chosen on June 11 during the 2017 PSF Board Election. Visit the post to learn more.
pyfound.blogspot.ca
Shared by @mgrouchy

EuroPython 2017: Please send in your feedback
Visit the post to submit your feedback of EuroPython 2017.
europython.eu
Shared by @myusuf3

Python 3.6.2 is now available
Check out the post for more details on this latest release!
python.org
Shared by @mgrouchy

Discussion

Whats your python job like?
reddit.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Here's a game I made in Python using Tkinter!
reddit.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Jobs

IS Software Developer (San Francisco, CA)
Posted By Lucasfilm, LTD.

Python/Django Developer (Washington, DC)
Posted By Industry Dive.

Full Stack Software Engineers (Riyadh, Saudia Arabia)
Posted By Saudi Human Genome Project.

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Projects

fast-histogram
Fast 1D and 2D histogram functions in Python. No nonsense.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

imgspy
imgspy finds the metadata (type, size) of an image given its url by fetching as little as needed.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

A-Simple-Note-Taking-Terminal-App
A simple terminal note taking application using Python.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

polyaxon
A platform that helps you build, manage and monitor deep learning models.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

shadowsocksr
Python port of ShadowsocksR.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

tensorforce
A TensorFlow library for applied reinforcement learning
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

revnet-public
Code for "The Reversible Residual Network.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

JSParser
A python 2.7 script using Tornado and JSBeautifier to parse relative URLs from JavaScript files. Useful for easily discovering AJAX requests when performing security research or bug bounty hunting.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

pythonic-automatic-email
Sending Multiple Customized Emails Uing Gmail API & Python
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

sukhoi
Minimalist and powerful Web Crawler.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

faker-schema
Generate fake data using joke2k's faker and your own schema.
github.com
Shared by @uegul

conda-merge
Tool to merge environment files of the conda package manager.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

funmath
Implementations of mathematical functions, formulas and concepts.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Articles

Investigating tries: writing a spell-checking algorithm
Learn something about Tries and how to go about writing a spell checker!
jamesroutley.co.uk
Shared by @myusuf3

Abstract Base Classes in Python
DRY your code and make it easier to debug with Abstract base classes.
medium.com
Shared by @alt227Joydeep

Dockerizing Django, uWSGI and Postgres the serious way
Time to get serious about dockerizing your web application.
eidel.io
Shared by @olieidel

Checking Your Daily Spending via SMS with Python, Plaid and Twilio
Write some code to receive a daily SMS summary of your spending. Pretty cool!
twilio.com
Shared by @meganspeir

Letâ€™s Build the Tiniest Blockchain
Write a simple blockchain implementation in only 50 lines of Python.
medium.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Pandas in a nutshell
Great as a reference or to learn something some new things about pandas.
kanoki.org
Shared by @myusuf3

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