Pygest # 6. Releases, articles, interesting projects from the world of Python [March 14, 2017 - March 27, 2017]

Hello! This is the sixth issue of Habrahabr digest news from the world of Python. In today's release you will find interesting materials related to machine learning, profiling and optimization of Python-applications, good practices when writing Python-code and much more. Send us your actual materials, as well as any comments and suggestions that will be added to the nearest digest.

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Releases

Python 3.6.1
New minor release language.

Django 1.11 RC1
The first release candidate of the popular framework. 1.11 - the first version that supports Python 3.6
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Numpy 1.12.1
Updating a popular module in Data Science for working with multidimensional arrays

Articles

Open machine learning course. Topic 3. Classification, decision trees and the method of nearest neighbors
Open machine learning course. Topic 4. Linear classification and regression models
The continuation of a series of articles from Open Data Science on machine learning. Thank yorko

Deep Learning Libraries Theano / Lasagne
Overview of libraries used in machine learning in Python. Thank you sovcharenko

Predicting the future with the Facebook Prophet library
An example of using a library for predicting time series. Thank you miptgirl

f-lines in python
Overview of new functionality for working with strings in Python. Thank you shultais

New interesting data structures in Python 3
A quick note about new structures in Python 3

The Case of the Mysterious Python Crash
The story of a "mystical" fall of Python (at the end of a happy ending)

What are some WTFs (still) in Python 3?
Interesting discussion on Reddit about the oddities of Python 3

DRY Your Python Code With Decorators
An article about how decorators in Python help follow DRY principles.

Diagnosing and Fixing Memory Leaks in Python
Excellent article about how to find and overcome memory leaks in Python applications.

PEP 308 and why I still hate Python
A note on why PEP 308 (conditional expressions) is a bad idea.

Profiling and optimizing your Python code
A useful article about profiling and optimizing Python code.

Python's Functions Are First-Class
An article telling what “first-class functions” are within Python and what advantages it gives.

Build a Distributed Streaming System with Apache Kafka and Python
A note on how to use Apache Kafka and Python to build distributed systems.

Predicting Housing Prices with Linear Regression using Python, pandas, and statsmodels
An article on the use of linear regression for predicting prices and implementing this model in Python.

Interesting projects

Face recognition
Python library for face recognition.

Django React Blog
An example of just a blog on Django + React.js

aeneas
Python / C library for automatic synchronization of audio and text

better-exceptions
Python module for more convenient work with exceptions.

Instant lyrics
A small application that allows you to get lyrics for the currently playing song in Spotify.

Flango
The skeleton of the application, where Flask is used as the front-end, and Django as the back-end.

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Pygest # 5. Releases, articles, interesting projects from the world of Python [February 28, 2017 - March 13, 2017]

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