Mailman 3 May 2016 - Python-announce-list

The Real-Time Use of Python in Data Science World!
by Anita Goyal March 7, 2020

March 7, 2020

This course will help you to expertise the usage of Python in Data Science world. Carter your Python Knowledge so that it can be utilized to get the Insights of Data using Methodologies and Techniques of Data Science... Objective: Understand the concepts of Data science and Python You will be able to use Python in Discovering Data. You will have an idea of Statistical and Analytical methods to deal with huge data sets. You will gain an expertise on Regular Expressions, looping functions and … [View More]

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EuroPython 2016 Keynote: Paul Hildebrandt
by M.-A. Lemburg May 31, 2016

May 31, 2016

We are pleased to announce our next keynote speaker for EuroPython 2016: *** Paul Hildebrandt *** About Paul Hildebrandt ---------------------- Paul Hildebrandt has been a Senior Engineer with Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS) since 1996, and has worked in both Systems and Software engineering. His current title is Senior Software Engineer and Product Owner for the Playback tools among his primary duties is spending time working with the artists, understanding their needs, and … [View More]

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Are you interested in distinguishing between assertion violations and other kinds of failures in test cases?
by Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath May 31, 2016

May 31, 2016

Currently, pytest flags a test case as failed if there is either an uncaught exception or an assertion violation during the execution of the test case. This conflates failures in the UUT or the test case (that do not pertain to the property being tested) as violation of the property being tested. This issue is addressed by *pytest-finer-verdicts* plugin. The plugin changes the reporting scheme to report assertion violations as test failures (F) and other kinds of failures as test errors (E). … [View More]

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ANN: SortedContainers 1.5.2 Released
by Grant Jenks May 30, 2016

May 30, 2016

Announcing the release of SortedContainers version 1.5.2 What is SortedContainers? ------------------------- SortedContainers is an Apache2-licensed, pure-Python implementation of sorted list, sorted dict, and sorted set data types that is fast-as-C implementations with 100% code coverage and hours of stress testing. The project is fully documented with performance benchmarks and comparisons to alternative implementations. What's new in 1.5.2? -------------------- * Published Performance at … [View More]

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Sphinx 1.4.2 released
by Komiya Takeshi May 29, 2016

May 29, 2016

Hi all, I'm delighted to announce the release of Sphinx 1.4.2, now available on the Python package index at <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx>. It includes about 4 features and 44 bug fixes for the 1.4.1 release series, among them a incompatibility and a packaging error. For the full changelog, go to <http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/changes.html>. Thanks to all collaborators and contributers! What is it? =========== Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create … [View More]

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EuroPython 2016 Keynote: Naomi Ceder
by M.-A. Lemburg May 27, 2016

May 27, 2016

We are pleased to announce our fourth keynote speaker for EuroPython 2016: *** Naomi Ceder *** About Naomi Ceder ----------------- Naomi Ceder has been learning, teaching, using, and talking about Python since 2001. She is the author of the Quick Python Book, 2nd edition and has served the Python community in various ways, including as an organizer for PyCon US and a member of the PSF Board of Directors. Naomi is also the co-founder of Trans*Code, a UK based hack day focusing on trans … [View More]

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Django Girls workshop at EuroPython 2016
by M.-A. Lemburg May 26, 2016

May 26, 2016

We’re pleased to announce a Django Girls workshop on Sunday, July 17, the first day of the EuroPython 2016 conference. If you want participate or know someone who’d like to join, please fill in our application form on the Django Girls’ website: *** Django Girls EuroPython 2016 *** https://djangogirls.org/europython2016/ Remember: you don’t need any prior programming knowledge to participate ! About the workshop ------------------ After the workshop you will have … [View More]

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EuroPython 2016 Keynote: Rachel Willmer
by M.-A. Lemburg May 24, 2016

May 24, 2016

We are pleased to announce our third keynote speaker for EuroPython 2016: *** Rachel Willmer *** About Rachel Willmer -------------------- Rachel has been working at the "bleeding edge" of technology for 30 years, as programmer, network engineer, manager, startup founder: "I remain insatiably curious about how today's new technology gives birth to tomorrow's new business opportunity. I am CEO/Founder of Luzme, the ebook search site, and a Google Developer Expert (Firebase)." … [View More]

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ANN: Plumage 1.1.0 to access trademark status info from US PTO's TSDR system
by Terry Carroll May 24, 2016

May 24, 2016

I am pleased to announce Plumage (Plumage-py) 1.1.0 ("The Big Sky") Plumage is a module to obtain trademark status and information from the United States Patent & Trademark Office's (USPTO's) Trademark Status & Document Retrieval (TSDR) system. It takes as input either a trademark registration number or application serial number, fetches the corresponding XML data from the PTO's TSDR website, and returns a dictionary of data associated with the specified TSDR entry. Example: … [View More]

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PyData EuroPython 2016
by M.-A. Lemburg May 21, 2016

May 21, 2016

We are excited to announce a complete PyData (http://pydata.org/) track at EuroPython 2016 in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain, from July 14-24. *** PyData EuroPython 2016 *** https://ep2016.europython.eu/en/events/pydata/ The PyData track will be part of the EuroPython 2016 conference, so you won’t need to buy extra tickets to join. We will have more than 30 talks, 5 training and 2 poster sessions dedicated to PyData on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of July. If you’d like to … [View More]

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