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Today's talks
Unicode and You: An introduction in Python
Eddie Santos
Fortunato
Tutorial 5: Web Servers
Andrew Crouse & Daniel Mouris
Events
Coding in Python for Absolute Beginners
Eddie Santos
October 16, 23, 30, November 6, 6:30pm - 8:30pm Edmonton Public Library
Registration is required
Events
DjangoCon 2018
October 14-19, San Diego, CA
Hacktoberfest YEG 2018
October 15, Yellowhead Brewery
Data Insights with Python for Beginners - Ladies Learning Code
October 20, Startup Edmonton
PyCon Canada 2018
November 10-13, Toronto - Special Talk by Daniel Mouris
NEXT MEETUP ON NOVEMBER 13TH DUE TO REMEMBRANCE DAY
Releases
- IPython 7.0 Async REPL
- Django 2.0.9 and 1.11.16
- Django 2.1.2
Jobs!
News
- Python has entered TIOBE's top 3 programming languages for popularity.
Articles
- Machine Learning power 💪. Extracting dominant colors from images with clustering.
- Preparing for a Python Developer Interview
- The Best Python Books
- Creating A Simple Recommender System in Python Using Pandas
- Introduction To Linear Programming With Python
- Getting Started With Python inside PostgreSQL
- AWS Lambda + Serverless Framework + Python — A Step By Step Tutorial
- How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations ever
- This year’s Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to a Python convert
Python Tip
Use * to send lists and dictionaries as positional and keyword arguments when calling a function
total = sum(*list_of_small_nums, *list_of_large_nums)
# total == 66
Python 3.5+ allows passing multiple sets of keyword arguments (kwargs) to a function in a single call
def sum(*args):
total = 0
for arg in args:
total += arg
return total
list_of_small_nums = [1, 2, 3]
total = sum(*list_of_small_nums)
# total == 6
list_of_large_nums = [10, 11, 12, 13, 14]
total = sum(*list_of_large_nums)
# total == 60