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With the paywalling of the Twitter API, any new blog posts (should they ever happen...) won't get automatically posted here.
I might remember to do it, but I might not.
Leaving the account up because, why not?
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New Post: New Release: sphobjinv v2.3 ift.tt/6s3TxpO
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We are happy to announce the Python Developers Survey 2021!
Take part in the official Python Developers Survey 2021. Help us discover what the Python development world looks like today and how it compares to last year.
surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/c1-…
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New Post: New(ish) Release: sphobjinv v2.1 ift.tt/2W0FE0j
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I installed every package on PyPI to look for malicious activity. I've published the results here: jordan-wright.com/blog/post/…
I'd like to talk a little about how this all works and why it's important: 🧵
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New Post: tweepy Quickstart: Basic App Creation, Configuration and Manual Authentication ift.tt/37kOOs3
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For anyone in #Python world that might be interested, I made a little bot that curates updated lists of flake8 plugins and their flake8.extension/flake8.report entry points (github.com/bskinn/list-of-fl…), and posts new and updated flake8 plugins to @Flake8Plugins.
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I've just uploaded #python 3.9 beta 5 (and 3.8.5) to deadsnakes! (an #ubuntu ppa) -- this is the last beta for 3.9 so make sure to check that things aren't broken! launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+a…
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Voting is open for the 2020 Board of Directors Election! If you’re a voting member of @ThePSF, check your email to find your ballot. You can vote for new directors until the end of June 17th AoE. A list of candidates and their information can be found at python.org/nominations/elect…
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New Post: My How and Why: Aliases, Functions, Symlinks and Shortcuts ift.tt/2Yh3Rgl
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It’s almost the end of 2019, and while many people are on holidays, The BeeWare Project has seen a lot of activity over the last few months (and especially over the last few weeks). Here’s a summary: 1/n
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Minor #python oddity: Some of the string module constants almost look sorted, but they aren't.
>>> sorted(ascii_letters) == list(ascii_letters)
False
>>> sorted(whitespace) == list(whitespace)
False
>>> sorted(punctuation) == list(punctuation)
True
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Seeking speakers of all experience levels & backgrounds! CFP deadline for Tutorial proposals - Nov. 22. CFP deadline for Talk, Charlas, Poster, & Education Summit proposals - Dec. 20. Speakers also get prioritized access to financial aid. More here: us.pycon.org/2020/speaking/
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2019 @JetBrains/@ThePSF Python Developers Survey is live -- if you #Python, take it!
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New Post: KSotD (Word): Paste As Text – Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Space ift.tt/3377OFG
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It's bittersweet: I'm leaving @dropbox, and am now retired. I've learned a lot during my time as an engineer here -- e.g. type annotations came from this experience -- and I'll miss working here. blog.dropbox.com/topics/comp…
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Hey, Python 2.7 user, yeah you.
You know that helpful compiler package from Microsoft? aka.ms/vcpython27 [aka(dot)ms(slash)vcpython27]
The download is going to expire on 01/01/2020. And I lost my login to update it.
So I guess it's going away soon?🤷♂️ Are you ready?
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A lot of things are broken :S -- there's an alternate scenario with python 4.0 which breaks more (six.PY3 reports False among other things)
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New Post: Extracting Unique Twitter handles from Custom Jekyll Include Tags ift.tt/2LNMFdA