PythonPune Community Newsletter [May 2019 Edition]

News from Python Community

• Python Used to Take Photo of Black Hole http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/04/11/python-used-to-take-photo-of-black-hole/

  • Slides: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7533ucj8bt54yh7/Bouman_Chael.pdf?dl=0

• Some interesting videos from PyTexas 2019

  • Keynote: My Path to Becoming a Python Core Developer by Emily Morehouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOzUMQW4p0Y

  • Keynote: The Zen of Python Teams by Adrienne Lowe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmvUbHtSAaM

• Keep an eye on Django related podcasts https://djangochat.com/

• PSF 2019 Annual Report https://www.python.org/psf/annual-report/2019/

• https://pydist.com/ A new service created by community member Alex Becker. It’s both a PyPI mirror & private index, works w/ existing tools, & reasonably priced.

• Some Interesting Videos from PyCon 2019

  • Modern solvers: Problems well-defined are problems solved by Raymond Hettinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=_GP9OpZPUYc

  • Maintaining a Python Project When It’s Not Your Job by Hynek Schlawack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G2s1TN9QQY

  • Help! I’m now the leader of our Meetup group! by Faris Chebib https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5YrZt788CY

• Replace Nested Conditional with Guard Clauses https://refactoring.com/catalog/replaceNestedConditionalWithGuardClauses.html

• Pyodide project to bring the scientific Python stack in the browser By Mozilla https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/04/18/mozilla-announces-pyodide-python-in-the-browser/

• Visual Studio Code announced the preview of three new extensions that enable seamless development in Containers, remotely on physical or virtual machines, and with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

  • Visual Studio Code Remote - WSL https://youtu.be/mIHprjsSO9o

  • Visual Studio Code Remote - SSH https://youtu.be/rh1Ag41J6IA

  • Visual Studio Code Remote - Containers https://youtu.be/TVcoGLL6Smo

• Python modules in C by Dan Foreman-Mackey https://dfm.io/posts/python-c-extensions/

Recent PEP

• PEP 578 – Python Runtime Audit Hooks https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0578/

• PEP 570 – Python Positional-Only Parameters

  • https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0570/
  • Implemented here: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8c77b8cb9188165a123f2512026e3629bf03dc9b

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/

Compiled by PythonPune

• Nikhil Dhandhre
• Akshay Gaikwad
• Amol Kahat
• Chandan Kumar