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Pycon

PyCon 2018 – My First PyCon

By on 19 May 2018

Going into my first PyCon was pretty daunting. Luckily, the Python community is absolutely incredible so my fears quickly faded. Surprisingly, there was a lot to gain that wasn’t actually technical or code related. Read on for a recap of the experience.

Code Challenges

Code Challenge 49 – Contribute to Open Source: Clean up Planet Python

By on 1 April 2018

Hi Pythonistas, it has been silent on the Community Blog challenges front, but then again we completed the 100 Days of Code in Python course which was a great milestone. Although less frequent, we will keep doing blog challenges though, not to worry! Let’s start with a long pending item: cleaning up Python planets feeds, an interesting and valuable open source contribution.

Testing

All You Need to Know to Start Using Fixtures in Your pytest Code

By on 15 March 2018

Setting up test cases for code that manage data can be challenging but it’s an important skill to reliably test your code. You might have heard of the setup and teardown methods in unittest. In pytest you use fixtures and as you will discover in this article they are actually not that hard to set up. Fixtures have been labelled pytest’s killer feature so let’s explore them in this article using a practical example.