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News

Make qutebrowser the most future-proof vim-like browser!
A crowdfunding campaign with the goal of adding support for QtWebEngine to qutebrowser. QtWebEngine is based on Chromium and in very active development - support for it will fix dozens of qutebrowser bugs related to QtWebKit.


Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Episode #52: EVE Online: MMO game powered by Python
You may have played Eve Online as it's one of the first major MMOs released in 2003. But did you know that Python is at the core of the game, playing a critical role in the backend infrastructure as well as a major role in the client side game itself! On this episode, you'll meet Kristinn Sigurbergsson from CCP games to dig into Python at Eve Online. 

Python Virtual Environments - a Primer 
In this article, we'll show how to use virtual environments to create and manage separate environments for your Python projects, each using different versions of Python for execution, as well as how Python dependencies are stored and resolved.

Podcast.__init__ Episode 50 - Transcrypt with Jacques de Hooge
Any programmer who has dealt with a website for any length of time knows that writing JavaScript isn't always the most enjoyable. Wouldn't you rather write that code in Python and just have it work on your website? In this episode we learn about Transcrypt with its creator Jacques de Hooge. Transcrypt is a Python to JavaScript transpiler that embraces the JavaScript ecosystem while letting you use the familiar syntax of Python for writing your logic, rather than trying to shoehorn a Python runtime into your browser.

Building a Location Aware Web App With Geodjango
PostgreSQL has excellent support for geographical data thanks to the PostGIS extension, and Django allows you to take full advantage of it thanks to GeoDjango. This tutorial shows you how to use GeoDjango to build a web app that allows users to search for gigs and events near them.

Implementing Python for DrRacket
This paper presents an implementation of Python for Racket and the DrRacket IDE. This allows Python programmers to use Racket libraries and vice versa, as well as using DrRacket's pedagogic features. In particular, it allows architects and designers to use Python as a front-end programming language for Rosetta, an IDE for computer-aided design, whose modelling primitives are defined in Racket. 

Measuring size of objects in an image with OpenCV

In this post, you will learn how to measure the size of objects in an image using Python and OpenCV.

Catching bogus Python asserts on CI
It's easy to accidentally write Python assert statements that always evaluate to true. Here's how to avoid this mistake and catch bad assertions as part of your continuous integration build.

PyData Amsterdam 2016 Videos

Winning Reversi with Monte Carlo Tree Search

Misleading modelling: overfitting, cross-validation, and the bias-variance trade-off

Raspberry Pi & Python Internet 'Thing' pt. 2 with Tony D!

Comprehensions in Python the Jedi way


Books

Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook

Using the hands-on recipes in this book, you'll be able to do practical research and analysis in computational biology with Python. We cover modern, next-generation sequencing libraries and explore real-world examples on how to handle real data. The main focus of the book is the practical application of bioinformatics, but we also cover modern programming techniques and frameworks to deal with the ever increasing deluge of bioinformatics data.


Python Jobs of the Week

Fullstack Python/Django Developer at GeneAdviser 
We are looking for a Python/Django backend developer to work in a small and dedicated team headed by our CTO. Initially the focus will be on building the secure ordering platform but products using data science and bioinformatics are planned in the long term. 


Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Yosai
A Security Framework for Python Applications. It features authentication, authorization, and session management from a common, intuitive API. 

pytrader
pytrader is a cryptocurrency trading robot that uses machine learning to predict price movements at confidence intervals, and sometimes execute trades.

Feather
Feather: fast, interoperable binary data frame storage for Python, R, and more powered by Apache Arrow.

wireless-network-reproduction
Wireless Network Reproduction (aka WNR) is a network emulator which allows developers to exactly reproduce any kind of terrible network condition on your own mobile device, or even Android/iOS emulators running on Mac OS.

rq-scheduler
A light library that adds job scheduling capabilities to RQ (Redis Queue)

channels-examples
This is a repository of simple, well-commented examples of how to implement a few different site features in Django Channels.

missingno
Missing data visualization module for Python.

CrackMapExec
A swiss army knife for pentesting Windows/Active Directory environments.

elevation
Global geographic elevation data made easy. Elevation provides easy download, cache and access of the global datasets SRTM 30m Global 1 arc second V003 elaborated by NASA and NGA and SRTM 90m Digital Elevation Database v4.1 elaborated by CGIAR-CSI.

pyrilla
It a is lightweight software audio mixer for Windows and Mac OS X for game developers built on top of great Gorilla Audio library. The aim of this project is to provide simple statically compiled audio mixer for different systems (Linux support planned in near future) that has no external dependencies and can be easily installed with with pip.

python-unitypack
A library to deserialize Unity3D Assets and AssetBundles files (*.unity3d).

text2image
Generating Images from Captions with Attention. We introduce a model that generates image blobs from natural language descriptions. The proposed model iteratively draws patches on a canvas, while attending to the relevant words in the description.