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Brian #1: Scipy lecture notes


“One document to learn numerics, science, and data with Python”
Topics

Python language tutorial
NumPy, Matplotlib, scipy
Debugging, optimizing, image manipulation
Statistics, scikit-image, scikit learn
3D plotting

Nice table of contents layout that makes it easy to jump right to whatever you need to learn.
Just in time learning for scientific Python.


Michael #2: Building a desktop notification tool for Linux using python


The term desktop notifications refer to a graphical control element that communicates certain events to the user without forcing them to react to this notification immediately.
Example: we are going to build a notification tool which displays the current rate of bitcoins in INR.
Based on notify2 package


Brian #3*:* pytest-benchmark


Easily wrap some time constraints around some code to make sure certain parts of your system don’t slow down.
Good table or graph based preliminary times with statistics
Can generate golden sets of numbers, then compare against those and fail based on changes in particular stats like min, mean, etc.
Can have max and min times for benchmarks even without previous training.
Lots of fun flags and utilities.
good integration with pytest


Michael #4: Alice in Python projectland


via Vicki Boykis
Python project structure and packaging standardization is still not a solved problem
In the JVM, as long as you have your path structured correctly, build tools will understand it and create a package for you into an executable JAR.
But, when I started looking for the same standardization in Python, it wasn’t as straightforward. Some questions I had as I worked:

Should I be using virtualenvs?
Pipenvs?
Setuptools?
Should I have a setup.cfg?
What are wheels, or eggs, for that matter?
Does each folder need an __init__.py?
What does that file even do?
How do I reference modules along the same PYTHONPATH?

Hat tip to pipreqs
Conclusion: Python project structure and packaging can be intimidating, but, if you take it step by step, it doesn’t have to be.


Brian #5: How to teach technical concepts with cartoons


Just draw more pictures.
You don’t have to be a good artist for drawings to help with retention when you are trying to teach technical concepts.


Michael #6: Halo: Beautiful terminal spinners in Python


We’ve talk about progressbars: tqdm: https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm
doesn’t have to be.
Cool methods like
spinner.start([text])
spinner.succeed([text])
spinner.fail([text])
Windows File Progress Dialog Author: https://xkcd.com/612/


Extras


releases: stay current. go upgrade

Python 3.6.3 released
pytest 3.2.3 released

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