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July 15, 2020
PSF GSoC students blogs
Week 6 Check-in
What did you do this week?
I started a new PR that adds multimethods for mathematical functions. The multimethods that were added are the following:
Trigonometric functions
degreesradiansunwrap
Rounding
around(and its aliaseround_)fix
Sums, products, differences
cumprodcumsumnancumprodnancumsumediff1dcrosstrapz
Other special functions
i0sinc
Arithmetic operations
float_power
Handling complex numbers
anglerealimagconjugate
Miscellaneous
convolveclipnan_to_numreal_if_closeinterp
I've also concluded the PR on array manipulation routines from previous weeks which still had some unresolved issues. It turns out that this week's work was mostly spent patching up the previous PR and less working on the new one unfortunately. This ended up delaying the new PR a bit but since the new one already added quite a few multimethods the schedule is unaffected.
What is coming up next?
Continuing the new PR by adding default implementations to the appropriate multimethods and starting a new PR that adds multimethods for functional programming routines. I already did some offline prototyping of default implementations for mathematical functions, the more easy ones at least. The more difficult ones (e.g., unwrap, convolve and interp) should be the focus of that part of next week's work.
Did you get stuck anywhere?
There were no major blocks this week. The only issue was the somewhat precedence that the older PR had which prevented the newer one to advance. For example, both PRs had failing tests in the XND backend so this backend was removed (the project is not maintained anymore) in the older PR. Since this has now been merged the newer PR can now receive those changes that fix its failing tests.
July 14, 2020
PSF GSoC students blogs
Week 7 check-in!
Hello everyone
So we are into Week #7 now. In the last week, we were done with integrating query functions and I had mentioned that next I would be working on BAM serialization.
So yes, BAM serialization took me some time to get the feel of, though finally I was able to implement in successfully with the help of mentors. BAM serialization gives the users and game developers ability to save the generated navmesh in their hard disk and load it from there whenever required. This can be really helpful in games as a lot of time and computational power required to generate navmesh will be saved and hence the games would load faster. So, as for this week, this was the major development done.
Where did I get stuck? Well, BAM serialization was a totally new concept for me and hence I was stuck in the process of understanding it. Once I understood the concept and how the functions implement it, then it was quite easy to code, though there were moments i got stuck while compiling after implementing BAM serialization. Mentors rescued me there. XD
For next week, I have few things on card: Writing Test Files for BAM, sample code and making more user friendly functions so that users do not have to dig deep into objects to use basic API functions. After that, a few more changes as per the PR review.
See you next week :)
Stay Safe
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PyCoder’s Weekly
Issue #429 (July 14, 2020)
#429 – JULY 14, 2020
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The (Non-)Return of the Python Print Statement
Guido van Rossum recently proposed re-introducing the Python print statement. He was completely serious and even though the idea didn’t gain traction, it’s interesting to know why he made the proposal.
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How JIT Compilers Are Implemented and Fast: PyPy, LuaJIT, Graal and More
Have you ever wondered how JIT compilers like PyPy work? Learn the basics by looking at a number of JITs including PyPy, LuaJIT, and Graal.
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Hashing It Out
Take a deep dive into Python dictionaries by looking at four problems and considering their solutions.
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Python import: Advanced Techniques and Tips
The Python import system is as powerful as it is useful. In this in-depth tutorial, you’ll learn how to harness this power to improve the structure and maintainability of your code.
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Arrange-Act-Assert: A Pattern for Writing Good Tests
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A Practical Introduction to Graphs (Network Diagrams)
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Solving the Plus Minus Problem in Python
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A Hundred Days of Code, Day 007 - Python Basics, Variables, Basic Data Types, Strings and Loops
Started with the Reuven Lerner, Intro Python:Fundamentals course today.
Made surprising headway, even though today was crazily demanding with work and personal stuff.
Notes
- The difference between
==andis- If you want to see if two things are equal, use
==- like, is
2+2==4
- like, is
- If you want to know if two objects are the same thing. if they are just pointers to the same memory location, use
is. The heuristic is, if you are checking for singleton values, something that there is only one thing of; then in Python, we useis. Use sparingly . Make sure you check mostly to see if things are the same object or practically to see if something isNone- mostly to check for the presence or absence of things.
- like
x = Noneand then I go checkif x is None…
- If you want to see if two things are equal, use
- True / False heuristic in Python
- Nearly everything in Python is true
- except for
False,None,0or anything empty (empty lists, dictionaries, etc.)
- Learnt how working with strings in reverse works
- if I want the last element in a string, I could reference it by calculating it’s length and lopping one off (since indexes start at 0), like with the string
s = 'Halt! Who goes there?'I could access the last element bys[len(s)-1]or the last but one, with as[len(s)-2]. - This is made a lot more convenient by just dropping the
len(s)stuff, just leaving the- numeralpart -s[-1]ors[-2] - This makes so much sense in my head now, if what I am doing is counting straight and then subtracting one. I should remember, things sometimes are simpler than they seem :)
For some reason, I always imagined, Python could see the length of my string, so why couldn’t there be a reverse string way of doing things likes.rev[0]that would just count backwards 😂
- if I want the last element in a string, I could reference it by calculating it’s length and lopping one off (since indexes start at 0), like with the string
- Strings are immutable. They can’t be changed. I can just process a copy and generate new ones, though.
- just realised that the f in f-strings stands for formatted strings, since when I write raw strings, I use an r for, duh, raw strings
- Slicing involves carving out a small contiguous part out of a larger string. The thing to note is that when I say
s[0:4]it means upto, but not including 4- If I say
s[0:100], slices are forgiving and give me upto the end of my small string, without throwing an error. - Empty colons in slices imply endings.
s[:10]means start from 0 and go up to 9. Ors[9:]means start at 9 and go upto the end. Ergos[:]means from the beginning to the end. - I can have step sizes to step over. The default, hidden size is 1. I can step, oh, say every three elements by append
:3to the end of my slice like so,s[0:20:3], basically [start:end:step size] - I can also have negative step sizes which will give me the results in reverse. The most common one being -1, because the quickly reverses a string for me (commonly done). But it works with other step sizes too. A -2 will start counting backwards every other character from the end. A reverse slice begins with the end character and then beginning. So
s[10:5:-1]to carve out a slice backwards.
- If I say
- Sequences are strings, tuples and lists. They all can be sliced and diced and iterated upon.
- Heuristic,
elsein aforloop is to match stuff when I don’t encounter abreak. theelsepart matches theforto form thefor-elseconstruct, even though the break is inside the for loop whileloops are for when you don’t know the end of what you are looking for. there is not finite end. No 0 - 10 happening. You are just searching for something in an amorphous swamp. The swamp is vast, there is no way to say from this end of the swamp to that end.You only give up when you find what you are looking for, or when you decide it’s time to give up (some preset condition).- make sure there is a counter that breaks stuff or I might loop forever
Learning / Feedback/ Experiences from doing exercises
- Realising why Python notebooks are used. Very, very, very, handy to quickly write prose and code at the same time. It fits my mental model of programming perfectly!
- I keep thinking strings and characters are English and forget to quote them! The number of
NameErrorsI get, is not funny. - Thing that keeps biting me when I write
orstatments. I should remember to sayif x='blah' or x='meh'. I keep writingif x='blah' or 'meh', which is wrong. - I keep using a lot of superfluous variables. I should be more intentful. Instead of just printing an expression, I tend to figure out the expression, assign to a variable and then print it. Good for building, probably bad for optimal use. But I won’t worry about it too much now. Just something to improve on in the long term.
- Reuven is a painstakingly methodical teacher. If he’s so good in his videos, I am jealous of folks attending his live classes
Read all about my Python basics journey here
Kushal Das
Introducing pyage-rust, a Python module for age encryption
age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, it was designed by @Benjojo12 and @FiloSottile.
An alternative interoperable Rust implementation is available at github.com/str4d/rage
pyage-rust is a Python module for age, this is built on top of the Rust crate. I am not a cryptographer, and I prefer to keep this important thing to the specialists :)
Installation
I have prebuilt wheels for both Linux and Mac, Python 3.7 and Python 3.8.
python3 -m pip install pyage-rust==0.1.0
Please have a look at the API documentation to learn how to use the API.
Building pyage-rust
You will need the nightly rust toolchain (via https://rustup.rs).
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install requirements-dev.txt
maturin develop && maturin build
Missing items in the current implementation
I am yet to add ways to use ssh keys or alias features, but those will come slowly in the
future releases.
PSF GSoC students blogs
Check-in for week 6
1. What did you do this week?
Last week I was reworking the error handling once again. I moved the self-check from the general queue class to the Redis class and changed it to a simple Redis ping command. I also checked the code coverage w.r.t. tests and made requests with big payloads (e.g. fat cookies).
2. What is coming up next?
The next step is to extract Redis into its own scrapy library. This library should be an official addon to scrapy and eventually not only contain support for Redis but also for other message queues.
3. Did you get stuck anywhere?
No.
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July 13, 2020
Anarcat
Not recommending Purism
This is just a quick note to mention that I have updated my hardware documentation on the Librem 13v4 laptop. It has unfortunately turned into a rather lengthy (and ranty) piece about Purism. Let's just say that waiting weeks for your replacement laptop (yes, it died again) does wonders for creativity. To quote the full review:
TL;DR: I recommend people avoid the Purism brand and products. I find they have questionable politics, operate in a "libre-washing" fashion, and produce unreliable hardware. Will not buy again.
People who have read the article might want to jump directly to the new sections:
- Libre washing
- Bullshit anti-interdiction
- Bullshit crowdfunding
- Hardware reliability (or lack thereof)
I have also added the minor section of the missing mic jack.
I realize that some folks (particularly at Debian) might still work at Purism, and that this article might be demoralizing for their work. If that is the case, I am sorry this article triggered you in any way and I hope this can act as a disclaimer. But I feel it is my duty to document the issues I am going through, as a user, and to call bullshit when I see it (let's face it, the anti-interdiction stuff and the Purism 5 crowd-funding campaign were total bullshit).
I also understand that the pandemic makes life hard for everyone, and probably makes a bad situation at Purism worse. But those problems existed before the pandemic happened. They were issues I had identified in 2019 and that I simply never got around to document.
I wish that people wishing to support the free software movement would spend their energy towards organisations that actually do honest work in that direction, like System76 and Pine64. And if you're going to go crazy with an experimental free hardware design, why not go retro with the MNT Reform.
In the meantime, if you're looking for a phone, I recommend you give the Fairphone a fair chance. It really is a "fair" (as in, not the best, but okay) phone that you can moderately liberate, and it actually frigging works. See also my hardware review of the FP2.
PSF GSoC students blogs
Weekly Check-In | Gsoc'2020 | #7
Greetings, People of the world!
First week after our first evaluation was nice. I tried speeding up things. It's been an amazing week.
1. What did you do this week?
This week I added the feature to rotate an icon as well as to flip an icon as a part of customization. Thus now a user can rotate, flip or change colour of an icon according to their requirement. The customized icon are available to be downloaded as SVG only as of now.
2. What is coming up next?
This week, I will be add the feature to download these customized icons as PNG and along with it I will try to get started with multiple icon customization too.
3. Did you get stuck anywhere?
Nope, not this week
Weekly Check-in #7
What did i do this week?
I worked on integrating NLP operations with tensorflow dnnclassifier for text classification. I also added an example usage of the same in documentation.
What's next?
I will be working on adding more NLP operations this week.
Did I get stuck somewhere?
Yes, I got stuck in CI test, it was failing but i wasn't able to reproduce it on my system. It got resolved in weekly meeting.
Also on Saturday, screen of my laptop went black. I couldn't give it for repairing on the same day as the state government imposed complete lockdown on weekend. I gave it for repairing today, it should be good to go by tomorrow.
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The Past, Present, And Future Of The FLUFL: Barry Warsaw Shares His History With Python
Barry Warsaw has been a member of the Python community since the very beginning. His contributions to the growth of the language and its ecosystem are innumerable and diverse, earning him the title of Friendly Language Uncle For Life. In this episode he reminisces on his experiences as a core developer, a member of the Python Steering Committee, and his roles at Canonical and LinkedIn supporting the use of Python at those companies. In order to know where you are going it is always important to understand where you have been and this was a great conversation to get a sense of the history of how Python has gotten to where it is today.
Summary
Barry Warsaw has been a member of the Python community since the very beginning. His contributions to the growth of the language and its ecosystem are innumerable and diverse, earning him the title of Friendly Language Uncle For Life. In this episode he reminisces on his experiences as a core developer, a member of the Python Steering Committee, and his roles at Canonical and LinkedIn supporting the use of Python at those companies. In order to know where you are going it is always important to understand where you have been and this was a great conversation to get a sense of the history of how Python has gotten to where it is today.
Announcements
- Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
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- You listen to this show to learn and stay up to date with the ways that Python is being used, including the latest in machine learning and data analysis. For more opportunities to stay up to date, gain new skills, and learn from your peers there are a growing number of virtual events that you can attend from the comfort and safety of your home. Go to pythonpodcast.com/conferences to check out the upcoming events being offered by our partners and get registered today!
- Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Barry Warsaw about his role in the Python community, past, present, and future.
Interview
- Introductions
- How did you get introduced to Python?
- For anyone who isn’t familiar with you, how would you characterize your role in the Python language and community?
- What have been your main areas of focus in your role as a core developer?
- What are some of the other forms that your contributions to the language and community have taken?
- What are the contributions to Python that you are most proud of?
- Looking back at the past 25 years of Python, what do you find most interesting/surprising/exciting?
- How has the focus of the community changed or evolved since you first began using it?
- What are you currently focused on in your role in the steering council?
- What are the aspects of the language and community that you think need greater attention?
- What are the core strengths of the language and community that you believe will carry it through the next 25 years?
- In your current and previous roles you acted as a guiding force for Python. What are the main use cases for Python at LinkedIn?
- What kinds of projects are you involved with to support the other engineers in their use of Python?
- How much of an impact has the invisible hand of the PSU had on the overall trajectory of Python?
- Outside of Python, what are the programming languages or communities that you look to for inspiration?
- What are your personal goals for the future of Python?
Keep In Touch
- Website
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Links
- FLUFL PEP 401
- Python Steering Council
- The PEP Talk episode
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- BBS == Bulletin Board System
- comp.lang.python
- NIST == National Institute of Standards and Technology
- CNRI == Corporation for National Research Initiatives
- BayPIGgies
- Tcl/Tk
- PEP 572 := The Walrus Operator
- "The Grand Renaming"
- IETF == Internet Engineering Task Force
- RFC
- WebAssembly
- Python Software Foundation
- Python Black Swans keynote by Russell Keith-Magee
- Ewa Jodlowska
- Canonical Launchpad
- Mypy
- Python Type Annotations
- Iris Event Paging System
- OnCall Pager Rotation System
- Shiv
- PyOxidizer
- Rust
- Flake8
- isort
- Black
- Sphinx
- Read The Docs
- Sybil
- Manuel
- Doctest
- Pytest
- Coverage.py
- Cargo package system
- Tai Chi
- Python Core Mentorship
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Python Insider
Python 3.8.4 is now available
Python 3.8.4 is the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.8. Go get it here:
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-384/
Maintenance releases for the 3.8 series will continue at regular bi-monthly intervals, with 3.8.5 planned for mid-September 2020.
What’s new?
The Python 3.8 series is the newest feature release of the Python language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. See the “What’s New in Python 3.8” document for more information about features included in the 3.8 series.This is the first bugfix release that is considerably smaller than the previous three. There’s almost 20% fewer changes at 162 commits than the average of previous three bugfix releases. Detailed information about all changes made in version 3.8.4 specifically can be found in its change log. Note that compared to 3.8.3, version 3.8.4 also contains the changes introduced in 3.8.4rc1.
We hope you enjoy Python 3.8!
Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organization contributions to the Python Software Foundation.Your friendly release team,
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PSF GSoC students blogs
Image Classification - Weekly Check-in 7
End of Week 6 - 13/07/2020
What did you do this week?
I added example usage for using the OpenCV image processing operations to pre-process data before feeding into a Scikit-Learn classification model using DFFML's Command Line Interface. The dataset I used is the FLOWER17 dataset, to classify 17 flower species using their color, shape and texture as their feature maps to feed to the model! Although the accuracy isn't quiet good right now but it can get better if more pre-processing is done on the dataset especially if it's a multi-label classification problem. I've also started working to add pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks.
What is coming up next?
Next, I will be adding pre-trained CNNs for the purpose of Image classification using Transfer Learning to DFFML.
Did you get stuck anywhere?
I had some issues with the performance of my laptop while training and testing on a large dataset of images. I have since shifted to using the Google Cloud Platform as suggested by my mentor and things have been going a lot smoother and faster now! :D
Thank you for reading!
Weekly Check-in #7
What did i do this week?
I worked on integrating NLP operations with tensorflow dnnclassifier for text classification. I also added an example usage of the same in documentation.
What's next?
I will be working on adding more NLP operations this week.
Did I get stuck somewhere?
Yes, I got stuck in CI test, it was failing but i wasn't able to reproduce it on my system. It got resolved in weekly meeting.
Also on Saturday, screen of my laptop went black. I couldn't give it for repairing on the same day as the state government imposed complete lockdown on weekend. I gave it for repairing today, it should be good to go by tomorrow.
Catalin George Festila
Python 3.8.3 : Short intro to Appium-Python-Client python package.
This is a short intro of the Appium-Python-Client python package and Appium based on Client-Server Architecture. The Appium Server can be installed using two ways: using NPM or using Appium Desktop. I download and run the desktop version from here. Appium-windows-1.18.0-beta.1>Appium.exeThe latest version of Java, needed for Android Studio ( you can use the installation of Android Studio with SDK
PSF GSoC students blogs
Weekly Check In #4
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Hello all!
The past 6 weeks have been pretty amazing and I have learned a lot of new things.
The last week was kinda smooth is what I'd say. I worked on the Comments component that will be added to the Individual Story page. A basic responsive UI is ready and it is working fine. Now we are working on implementing the exact logic for this component so that it supports all the features that any other similar platform offers. I also worked on the 'My Stories' page where users can view stories that they have submitted as well as stories that they are following (stories you have liked/commented). The PR for this was merged but the 'Following' section logic is yet to be done because its backend hasn't been created yet. Once the comments section work is finished followed by the 'liking' mechanism I'll work on this section and complete it. Other than this I worked on resolving several UI related issues that emerged when the backend connectivity was added.
I did not face any major issue this week as a lot of the work was done by my partner this week. All the issues were resolved easily over a small video call and I think we are working at a decent pace.
Now, I'll be working on the Comments section and ensure that all of its logic is finished by the end of this week. Also, I'll work on adding the 'like' feature on the story page. If I get time then I'll also work on the 'Timeline' of every story.
GSoC Weekly Check-In #4
What did I do this week?
I did some code refactoring, some UI tweaks based on my mentor's suggestions, wrote tests for delete and edit feature in chat and added the image and document upload feature in mscolab chat.
What is coming up next?
There are some small changes required in file upload feature. I will be finishing up those. After that, I would be discussing with my mentors if any change or addition is required in the work I have done. If not I would be starting work on my final component of GSoC proposal which is the Offline editing of flightpaths.
Did I get stuck anywhere?
Mostly, I get stuck while creating the UI with PyQT5. Still getting a hang of how it. It takes me some time but I am able to do it.
Comment queries and edit mutations in the feature request system in GSOC’20
Sometimes we are not able to express all our thoughts and ideas in one go. A great idea may strike later or you may want to comment and give some suggestions and feedback to stories of other users. Come explore with me some exciting features that I added to our feature request system using Strapi , GraphQL and React this week.
What did I do this week?
A strange bug starts the week with some thrill and action. Our whole application breaks when a user logs in to the system and submits a new user story. Crash!
We were checking and dividing our user stories on our client side according to their current status. No status gets assigned by default to a new user story as that is an admin or root level permission feature. In Strapi I cannot assign a default status to a relation type field because relations between models can be of various types. I solved the bug on the client side by assigning every new user story a status of “Under Consideration” in my GraphQL mutation.
A user may want to check out their own stories at some point of time so I implemented a GraphQL query to fetch all user stories based on their user id. Users need to be authenticated to access their own stories. They can check their stories for status updates, votes, likes and comments from other users.
The next was the most awaited feature of allowing our beloved users to edit their own user stories. However, they cannot change the already added description. Content can just be added to the existing information. This is just to avoid trolls. :P
What is coming up next?
This week I will create a product model so that we can relate all our products at EOS Design System with a separate user story system. Users can filter their stories for different products.
I am also working on user comments system so that we can display all comments properly and further allow users to add more comments.
Did I get stuck anywhere?
Development without getting stuck is no fun. We learn fast from our mistakes. Initially I was happy to complete the edit story functionality and it worked well. Then my mentors could hack into the system easily. Security compromised. :P
They could edit stories of other users as well after writing into the famous localStorage . I solved the bug easily by implementing a function to verify and allow editing only if the user is the owner of the story.
This ended the week on a sweet note with quite some features added. Stay tuned for more fun and action. :)
Codementor
How should I prepare for a Python interview?
Before you go in for a python interview, there are a few things which you should know and refresh. For Better Guidence : https://nareshit.com/python-online-training/
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Webinar: “Simplify Your Tests With Fixtures” with Oliver Bestwalter
Fixtures can make your tests simpler and easier to maintain by using or creating common abstractions to be shared amongst your tests. In this webinar with Oliver Bestwalter we will look at what problems fixtures solve and how they can be used to make your testing life easier.
- Tuesday, July 28
- 6:00PM CEST – 12:00 Eastern Daylight Time
- Aimed at people already familiar with pytest and testing but no or only little experience with fixtures
- Register here
Outline
Fixtures are a powerful and important part of the value of pytest. They are also an area that is mysterious for newcomers and some delay learning about them.
Delay no longer! This webinar walks you through the why and how, plus lets you ask questions along the way.
- What problem do fixtures solve?
- What are the essentials I need to know about fixtures?
- How do I find and use built-in or 3rd party fixtures?
- How can I create custom fixtures?
- How can I share my custom fixtures between projects?
Speaking To You
Oliver Bestwalter is a Software Developer at Avira and a coach at the Python Academy.
Oliver fell in love with Open Source in the 1990s and with Python in 2006. He creates and helps maintain test and automation tools helping developers and companies to produce better software more effectively. If his time allows, he helps out in Open Source development, gives talks at meetups and conferences and provides customized in-house courses – visit his personal website for details.