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A beginner's guide to web scraping with Python

opensource.com - Fri, 05/22/2020 - 15:00

There are plenty of great books to help you learn Python, but who actually reads these A to Z? (Spoiler: not me).

Many people find instructional books useful, but I do not typically learn by reading a book front to back. I learn by doing a project, struggling, figuring some things out, and then reading another book. So, throw away your book (for now), and let's learn some Python.


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Linux 5.8 To See Support For POWER10's Prefixed Instructions

Phoronix - Fri, 05/22/2020 - 13:45
Beyond the usual excitement of numerous x86 and Arm hardware advancements each cycle, Linux 5.8 is bringing new IBM POWER enablement work...

Microsoft Has Now Open-Source Their BASIC Code From 1983

Phoronix - Fri, 05/22/2020 - 09:31
Adding to Microsoft's wild ride this week after announcing Linux GUI apps for WSL2 and in turn writing their own Wayland compositor, Direct3D sort of for WSL2/Linux, and other announcements out of BUILD 2020, the company has announced the open-sourcing of their original BASIC implementation...

Wine's Direct3D Vulkan Back-End Continues Seeing An Uptick In Activity

Phoronix - Fri, 05/22/2020 - 07:37
Last month we reported on Wine's Direct3D Vulkan back-end seeing new activity as an alternative to the project's mature Direct3D-to-OpenGL path. Over the course of May work on this Vulkan back-end has edged only even higher...

Linux 5.8 Prepped To Make Use Of TPAUSE Instruction With New Intel CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 05/22/2020 - 05:47
TPAUSE is the new instruction supported by Intel's Tremont microarchitecture and beyond. TPAUSE allows for an optimized state that can provide low wake-up latency compared to existing delay mechanisms. With Linux 5.8, the kernel will begin making use of TPAUSE where supported...

Dav1d 0.7 Released With More Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Fri, 05/22/2020 - 01:28
The VideoLAN team responsible for the dav1d AV1 video decoder have just released dav1d 0.7 as the newest feature release and it comes with more performance optimizations...

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