Welcome to c/Python, the go to place to discuss Python tools, techniques, and news.

We’re just getting started, so please use this thread to suggest what this community should look like, what it should cover, and how it should operate.

  • sol@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know, I just got here.

    Here being only just starting to learn python. And also this community too.

  • forkball@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hi Jason, Thanks for putting this community together! I’ve been passively teaching myself Python for awhile to add to my toolkit. I saw in your bio you’re involved with sports data at Elias. That’s super cool! I’d be curious to learn more about what tools and how Python is used in sports data analysis. Cheers 😀

    • Jason Novinger@programming.devOPM
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      1 year ago

      Thanks @forkball@lemmy.world , I think I was just in the right place at the right time.

      I’ll see if I can dig up some old technical blog posts from work. On my current project, we’re using Python for a research SaaS tool for sports information people, generally at broadcasters and league offices. We also have a fair amount of ETL type code in Python for aggregating and enriching data.

    • Jason Novinger@programming.devOPM
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      1 year ago

      This proved to be a fair amount of work, absent a bot of some sort that I haven’t had time to create yet.

      So, I failed toward just including events in the sidebar, with a link to python.org’s Event Calendar.

    • Jason Novinger@programming.devOPM
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      13 days ago

      Hey Ulrik, apologies for not responding sooner.

      I’m more than happy to talk about adding one (or more!) mods for any of the communities I mod for right now, including c/python. I have at least one person in mind, who has been pretty active both in c/python and c/django. I’d also like to talk more about mod expectations, particularly with regard to reported posts/comments.

      • UlrikHD@programming.dev
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        13 days ago

        From the perspective of the admin team, as long as reports are consistently resolved in a timely manner we are happy.

        If you have any questions or want help with finding extra moderators, feel free to ask it here or via DM, otherwise we also have a Discord server and a Matrix space where we can talk.

  • stOneskull@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    i wonder what python version should be recommended as standard? should it be what debian stable currently has as its lastest? i’ve found some things can’t handle the new-ness of 3.11. so is it 3.10?

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      1 year ago

      3.11 has been out long enough that it is supported by almost all mainstream libraries now. Unless you have a reason to use an older version (of which there are quite a few to be fair), 3.11 would be my default.

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        1 year ago

        the OpenAI API doesn’t like 3.11 at the moment but yeah, it’s easy enough to use an earlier version, especially with conda