PyCon India 2020 Keynote: Alolita Sharma

2020-09-08 Thread Sayan Chowdhury
Hi everyone, We are pleased to announce Alolita Sharma as the second Keynote Speaker of PyCon India 2020. About Alolita - Alolita Sharma is a Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services. She leads open source strategy and engineering for projects focused on observability and search

attrs 20.2.0

2020-09-08 Thread Hynek Schlawack
Hi everyone, I’m happy to (somewhat belatedly) announce the release of attrs 20.2.0. attrs is the direct ancestor of dataclasses in the standard library and remains the most powerful option for creating regular classes without getting bogged down with writing identical boilerplate again and aga

[RELEASE] Python 3.8.6rc1 is now ready for testing

2020-09-08 Thread Łukasz Langa
Python 3.8.6rc1 is the release candidate of the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.8. Go get it here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-386rc1/ Assuming no critical problems are found prior to 2020-09-21, the scheduled

ANN: pvlib-0.8.0 python package for solar energy modeling

2020-09-08 Thread Dr. Mark Alexander Mikofski PhD
Dear Pythonistas and Solar Energy enthusiasts, I am very happy to announce a new, major release of pvlib python, for simulating the performance of photovoltaic solar energy systems. *See what's new for v0.8.0:* * https://pvlib-python.readthedocs.io/en/stable/whatsnew.html *Releases are available