HumbleBundle -- Functional Python Programming -- Through July 1

See this https://www.humblebundle.com

This is amazing to me.

Humble Bundle sells games, ebooks, software, and other digital content. Our mission is to support charity while providing awesome content to customers at great prices. We launched in 2010 with a single two-week Humble Indie Bundle, but we have …
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The Pythonista app for iPad

Let me start my review with "wow!"

Python 3.6 on the iPad. Works. Nicely. Easy to use. Reliable. Rock-Solid.

I'm not switching to iPad as my primary platform any time in the near future. But. For certain kinds of small and tightly focused hackery, this is really nice.

I …

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Circuit Python on the Gemma M0 -- The Red Ranger Beacon

PyCon 2018 Swag included a Gemma m0. (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3501)

PyCon 2019 Swag included a Circuit Playground Express. See https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-circuit-playground-express/circuitpython-quickstart.

Both of these are (to me) amazing. They mount as USB devices; there’s a code.py file that’s automatically run …

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PyCon 2019


Fiction Writers and Query Letters

Date Tags #python

See http://flstevens.itmaybeahack.com/writing-world-building-and/ for some back-story on F. L. Stevens and the need to write a *lot* of query letters to agents for fiction. (The non-fiction industry is entirely different; there are acquisition editors who look for technical contributors.)

There's a tiny possibility of a Query Manager …

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Python and pathlib and Windows -- this problem has been solved -- and yet...

The Passive-Aggressive Programmer strikes again. A sad story of sadness.
I tell everyone to stop using os.path and use pathlib. Everyone. Here's the link: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html
It's essential to realize the semantic richness of OS filesystem paths. They're not simply strings. They have …
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