PythonPune Community Newsletter [June 2019 Edition]

News from Python Community

• Who put Python in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-the-windows-10-may-2019-update/

• The programmer who created Python isn’t interested in mentoring white guys https://qz.com/1624252/pythons-creator-thinks-it-has-a-diversity-problem/

• Python Core Developer Mentorship https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/05/python-core-developer-mentorship.html

• Dataclasses and attrs: when and why https://www.revsys.com/tidbits/dataclasses-and-attrs-when-and-why/

• The Price of the Hallway Track https://hynek.me/articles/hallway-track/

• f-string debugging in Python 3.8 https://tirkarthi.github.io/programming/2019/05/08/f-string-debugging.html

• Why Python 3 exists https://snarky.ca/why-python-3-exists/

• Why Python is slow https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow/

• Python in Azure Pipelines, Step by Step https://hynek.me/articles/simple-python-azure-pipelines/

• Python Language Summit 2019 Report https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-2019-python-language-summit.html

• Pandas Examples:

  • https://www.pythonforengineers.com/introduction-to-pandas/
  • https://python-sprints.github.io/pandas/guide/index.html

Recent PEP

• PEP 581 – Using GitHub Issues for CPython https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0581/

New Releases

• Kivy 1.11.0 released. Supports python 3.5+ only. https://github.com/kivy/kivy/releases/tag/1.11.0

• Python 3.8.0b1 available for testing

  • https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-8-0b1-available-for-testing/1815
  • https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html
    • := walrus operator
    • Positional-only parameters by using ‘/’ in function arguments

Projects to check out

• A compilation of text-based games written in Python that only use “standard i/o”. https://github.com/asweigart/PythonStdioGames

• Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills https://github.com/norvig/pytudes

Upcoming events in & around Pune

• PyCon India 2019, October 12 - 15, 2019, Chennai Trade Center and IIT Madras Research Park Call for papers are open now. https://in.pycon.org/2019/

• Django Girls on 22 Jun, 2019 at Red Hat, Pune https://djangogirls.org/pune/

• DGPLUG Summer Training 2019 16th June, 2019 on #dgplug IRC channel on #freenode server. https://foss.training/

• Rootconf 2019, Bangalore on 21-22 June, 2019 https://rootconf.in/2019/

Amazing People

• Nikhil Dhandhre for adding link checker CI in pythonpune/meetup-talks repo

  • https://github.com/pythonpune/meetup-talks/commit/adafc8e9a035b07dae055dab8d0b3c35505cc062

• Bhavin Gandhi & Akshay Gaikwad for leading June Python Pune 2019 meetup

  • https://www.meetup.com/PythonPune/events/261809068/

Compiled by PythonPune

• Amol Kahat
• Chandan Kumar
• Girish Joshi