PythonPune Community Newsletter [November 2019 Edition]

News from Python Community

• Thank you, Guido https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/thank-you--guido

• Thousands of Scientific Papers May be Invalid Due to Misunderstanding Python http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/10/13/thousands-of-scientific-papers-may-be-invalid-due-to-misunderstanding-python/

• What it’s like to be on the Python steering council https://snarky.ca/what-its-like-to-be-on-the-python-steering-council/

• Seeking Developers for Paid Contract Improving pip http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/11/seeking-developers-for-paid-contract.html

• Python developers survey 2019 https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/c10-python-developers-survey-2019

• My Python Development Environment, 2020 Edition https://jacobian.org/2019/nov/11/python-environment-2020/

• Partial Python code formatting with Black & PyCharm https://blog.godatadriven.com/black-formatting-selection

• When to switch to Python 3.8 https://pythonspeed.com/articles/major-python-release/

• Coverage 5.0 beta 1 is out https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201911/coverage_50_beta_1.html

• Python news site that is kind of a HackerNews clone https://news.python.sc/

• PythonPune Logo is out checkout here: https://github.com/pythonpune/design/tree/master/logo

New project

• Simple text/ markdown links status checker by Nikhil Dhandre https://github.com/pythonpune/linkstatus

Help Needed

• Design the Landing page of PythonPune https://github.com/pythonpune/design/issues/2

• Orator ORM created by same person who created poetry - needs a new maintainer https://twitter.com/mandarvaze/status/1194264258239840267 https://orator-orm.com/

Upcoming events in & around Pune

• PyConf Hyd 2019 on 07th and 08th Dec https://pyconf.hydpy.org/2019/

Thanks

• Thank you Akshay Gaikwad for tirelessly working and releasing PythonPune logo https://twitter.com/AkshayG196

• Thank you Nikhil Dhandre for linkstatus project https://twitter.com/digitronik

• Thanks to PhonePe for providing venue for November PythonPune meetup 2019 https://www.phonepe.com/en/

• Thank you Bhavin Gandhi and Vishal Vijayraghvan for Organizing November Python Pune meetup

Compiled by PythonPune

• Akhshay Gaikawad
• Chandan Kumar
• Mandar Vaze