Issue #387

Debugging Python With Pdb, Trusting PyPI, Requests Under New Ownership, and More

Sept. 24, 2019

Debugging Python With Pdb, Trusting PyPI, Requests Under New Ownership, and More
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Python Debugging With pdb
Learn the basics of using pdb, Python’s interactive source code debugger. pdb is a great tool for tracking down hard-to-find bugs, and it allows you to fix faulty code more quickly.
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How Do You Verify That PyPI Can Be Trusted?
“A co-worker of mine attended a technical talk about how Go’s module mirror works and he asked me whether there was something there that Python should do.”
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Automated Python Code Reviews, Directly From Your Git Workflow
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requests Has Moved Under PSF Ownership With New Primary Maintainer
Also see the related discussion on Reddit.
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What’s in a Name? Tales of Python, Perl, and the GIMP
Fun read about the challenges of naming and renaming open-source projects.
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PyCascades 2020 CFP
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Getting Started With Async Features in Python
Get the tools you need to start making asynchronous programming techniques a part of your repertoire. You’ll learn how to use Python async features to take advantage of IO processes and free up your CPU.
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Don’t Pickle Your Data (2014)
“Pretty much every Python programmer out there has broken down at one point and and used the ‘pickle’ module for writing objects out to disk. […] However, using pickle is still a terrible idea that should be avoided whenever possible.”
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Designing CI/CD Systems: Command Execution Tricks With subprocess
Use Python’s subprocess module to execute instructions inside a Docker container that builds and tests your code in an automated CI/CD system.
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Thonny: The Beginner-Friendly Python Editor
Learn all about Thonny, a free Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that was especially designed with the beginner Pythonista in mind. It has a built-in debugger and allows you to do step-through expression evaluation.
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Placing matplotlib Titles
Matplotlib titles have configurable locations. And you can have more than one at once… This short tutorial shows you how to use this feature.
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Game of Thrones and Network Theory
Analyzing Game of Thrones data to identify character importance, factions and gender interactions using Network Theory and Python.
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Learn Functional Python in 10 Minutes
You’ll learn what the functional paradigm is as well as how to use the basics of functional programming in Python.
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Simple Image Filters With OpenCV and Python
How to enhance your images with colored filters and add border backgrounds using Python and OpenCV.
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Discontinuous Ranges in Python
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Python Grids: Python Package Comparison Grids
Comparison grids to help you find great Python packages for your projects.
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mininet: Emulator for Rapid Prototyping of Software Defined Networks
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Gooey: Turn (Almost) Any Python CLI Program Into a Full GUI Application With One Line
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espresso: Fast End-To-End Neural Speech Recognition Toolkit
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poodle: Python Framework for AI Planning and Automated Programming
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pew: Manage Multiple Virtual Environments in Pure Python
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