June 12, 2020 at 8:51 AM

The strength of the community, the beauty of open source!

As part of pydataamsterdam 2020 (tickets here https://amsterdam.pydata.org), I was asked to prepare a session on getting started with testing in Python.

The goal was to empower participants to participate to open source development, on libraries such as https://pandas.io

This is always a daunting and humbling task, even more so now that I basically run the GoDataDriven Academy full-time, with no time to code — or to write tests.

So while readying my talk, I thought: wouldn’t it be a great challenge if could not only teach participants something new but also contribute a real test to pandas?

Lo and behold: the pandas developers are ready to merge my contribution!

https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/34705#issuecomment-642308985 #opensourcesoftware #pandas NumFOCUS