Python Weekly (Issue 358 - August 2 2018)

Python Weekly - Issue 358Â

August 02, 2018

Python Weekly

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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

In this in-depth tutorial you'll learn how to build a socket server and client with Python. By the end of this tutorial, you'll understand how to use the main functions and methods in Python's socket module to write your own networked client-server applications.

Use OpenCV to track objects in video using OpenCV's 8 object tracking algorithms, including CSRF, KCF, Boosting, MIL, TLD, MedianFlow, MOSSE, and GOTURN. Python + OpenCV object tracking code included.

In the last few years, static typing syntax and semantics were gradually introduced to Python language. Typing in Python is still quite new and often misunderstood subject. This post introduces its basics, while some more advanced features will be covered in the follow-up to this text.

  • Next Steps with Python Type System - This post will show some more advanced features of Python’s typing. Also, it includes a number of tips about the usage of particular typing’s features and a short guide on how to introduce typing into your codebase.

A hotel market data and benchmark company STR and Google have published a report shows that tracking hotel search results can be a reliable estimate of hotel bookings. So, our goal today is to try to build a machine learning model to predict the event outcome (booking or just a click) for a user event, based on their search and other attributes associated with that user event.

The django-rok is an reverse-ssh tunneling tool provides a public URL for your local web server. This is helpful in web-hook testing, quick UAT and many more.

Python Jobs of the Week

Pony.ai having recently raised an additional $102M for their self driving car platform is looking to scale their engineering team. They are hiring a software engineer to work on the vehicle "brain" and assist in development of offline infrastructures to facilitate the end to end development lifecycle. See if you're a good match for this role

and get fast tracked to a guaranteed interview (Make sure you select Pony.ai as one of your desired companies)

Allume is an online styling service for busy professional women. We combine human connection and data science to provide a WOW experience that clients can’t get other places. Our overall tech-stack is mainly composed of Python/Django, Redis, Docker, Celery and is hosted on AWS. We are seeking a developer who is excited to join a small, early-stage team where he/she can be a critical part of designing and building out this critical infrastructure.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Faust is a stream processing library, porting the ideas from Kafka Streams to Python.

BYOB is an open-source project that provides a framework for security researchers and developers to build and operate a basic botnet to deepen their understanding of the sophisticated malware that infects millions of devices every year and spawns modern botnets, in order to improve their ability to develop counter-measures against these threats.

A software suite for Visual Question Answering.

Python Classes Without Boilerplate.

The Classical Language Toolkit (CLTK) offers natural language processing (NLP) support for the languages of Ancient, Classical, and Medieval Eurasia.

A python command-line tool which draws basic graphs in the terminal.

Thredo is threads on async. For the brave. Or the foolish. Only time will tell.

Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses.

A retro game development environment in Python.

A high performance offensive security tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning.

Adding verbosity to Amazon Alexa's utterances can be tedious. This creates them automatically from a given template.

The drag and drop coding tool to make the transition from Scratch to Python easier.

Whatsapp Automation is a collection of APIs that interact with WhatsApp messenger running in an Android emulator, allowing developers to build projects that automate sending and receiving messages, adding new contacts and broadcasting messages multiple contacts.

Decorator library to configure function arguments.

New Releases

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