PythonPune Community Newsletter [February 2021 Edition]

News from Python Community

• You don’t really need a virtualenv https://frostming.com/2021/01-22/introducing-pdm/

• Fedora Loves Python 2020 report https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-loves-python-2020-report/

• Context Managers in Python. https://blog.manavgarg.in/context-managers-in-python

• On structured and unstructured data, or the case for cattrs https://threeofwands.com/on-structured-and-unstructured-data-or-the-case-for-cattrs/

• Anonymous Chat using OnionShare https://saptaks.blog/posts/anonymous-chat-using-onionshare.html

• Why you really need to upgrade pip https://pythonspeed.com/articles/upgrade-pip/

• Python Concurrency: The Tricky Bits https://python.hamel.dev/concurrency/

• Python Testing with pytest https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/table-of-contents-86377afafc57

New projects

• Python Jupyter Notebooks in Excel https://pypi.org/project/pyxll/

• Sailbot: A quick and easy way to distribute your Python projects! https://github.com/cole-wilson/sailboat

• Python job scheduling for humans https://pypi.org/project/schedule/1.0.0/

• gistfinder https://github.com/robdmc/gistfinder

• Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository https://github.com/archivy/archivy

Help Needed

• PythonPune meetup user group is looking for speakers for monthly meetup talks, Please submit talks here: https://github.com/pythonpune/meetup-talks/issues

Upcoming events in & around Pune

• PyCon India 2021 on 16th to 19th Sept, 2021 https://in.pycon.org/blog/2021/pycon-india-announcement.html

Thanks

• Thank you Akshay, Vishal & Bhavin for hosting February PythonPune meetup 2021 virtually and Nikhil for delivering talks. https://www.meetup.com/PythonPune/events/276509512/

Compiled by PythonPune

• Chandan Kumar
• Ravishankar Chavare