53rd issue of Andrei Neagoie's must-read monthly Python Newsletter: Whitehouse Recommends Python, Memory Footprint, Let's Talk About Devin, and much more. Read the full newsletter to get up-to-date with everything you need to know from last month.

The Python standard library ships with a testing framework named unittest, which you can use to write automated tests for your code. The unittest package has an object-oriented approach where test cases derive from a base class, which has several useful methods. The framework supports many features that will help you write consistent unit tests for...

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v8.3.1. This release fixes some small bugs, including some introduced by the new Nikola Plugin Manager. The minimum Python version supported is now 3.8, and we have adopted a formal policy to define the Python versions supported by Nikola. What is Nikola?...

API Testing in Pure English 2024-04-29, by Dariusz Suchojad How to test APIs in pure English Do you have 20 minutes to learn how to test APIs in pure English, without any programming needed? Great, the API testing tutorial is here. Right after you complete it, you'll be able to write API tests as the one below. Next steps: ...

Introduction In the past few years python has gained a huge popularity as a programming language in data science world. Many banks and pharma organisations have started using Python and some of them are in transition stage, migrating SAS syntax library to Python. Many big organisations have been using SAS since early 2000 and they developed a hundreds...

The DSF Board are pleased to introduce Baptiste Mispelon as a new member of the ops team. Baptiste will join the team who maintains Django’s infrastructure. Baptiste speaking at Django Under the Hood 2015 Baptiste (IPA pronunciation /ba.tist/) is a long-time Django contributor, having been a member of the community for over...