News and announcements from the Python community for the week of May 2nd, 2019

Many people started switching to Python 3, unfrotunetly most people still write their code like it is Python 2. Below are useful Python 3 features.

This summer I’m planning to have a trip that will include Moscow, Irkutsk, Beijing, Shanghai, and Tokyo.
As I’m flexible on dates I’ve decided to try to find the cheapest flights with the shortes...

print style debugging is a form of debugging where print statements are inserted to print values of expressions or variables that we need to track. loggers a...

Using hreflang to link to other languages

Pandas has a relatively new API for styling output. This article shows examples of using the style API in pandas.

Add basic search functionality to any Django website.

Let's say that we create a new, empty Python dictionary: >>> d = {} How much memory does this new, empty dict consume? We can find out with "sys.getsizeof": >>> import sys>>> sys.getsizeof(d)240 In other

Visualizing data in Python.

Many people started switching to Python 3, unfrotunetly most people still write their code like it is Python 2. Below are useful Python 3 features.

A Single Source of Truth for install_requires

We usually think of an algorithm as a single function with inputs and outputs. Our algorithms textbooks reinforce this notion. They present very concise denoscriptions that neatly fit in half of a pa…

Add basic search functionality to any Django website.

All around the country boundaries separate neighborhoods with high and low life expectancy. We used python to find the most extreme examples.

It can be hard to get your head around how immense an IoT network deployment is without a map, especially for Smart Cities.  Using HERE XYZ to visualize infrastructure at a city level makes a world of difference.  Let's look at how to do that, first fetching…

FDA drug approvals, legal verdicts, mergers, share buybacks, and the occasional CEO podcast appearance, are all examples of events that…

Getting your messages without giving a third party your credentials and data

Open-source cron job and background task monitoring service, written in Python & Django - healthchecks/healthchecks