Issue #356

Running Python Programs, CPython on x86 vs ARM, and More

Feb. 19, 2019

Running Python Programs, CPython on x86 vs ARM, and More
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How to Run Your Python Scripts
This step-by-step tutorial guides you through a series of ways to run your Python scripts and programs, depending on your environment, platform, needs, and skills as a programmer.
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x86 vs ARM for Web Crawling in Python
Compares the performance of a Python web scraper running on x86 and ARM servers. Which one will be cheaper in $ per million pages scraped? Interesting writeup!
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Aligning the First Line of a Triple-Quoted String in Python
Nice little formatting tip for triple-quoted strings.
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Python’s str.isdigit vs str.isnumeric
“If you ever wondered how a language that claims to have one obvious way to do it can have multiple seemingly identical methods… well, now you know!”
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Creating a Custom User Model in Django
This post explains step-by-step how to create a custom User model in Django.
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The Men Fighting Florida’s Python Epidemic
More proof that Python is taking over the world…
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How & Why Cities and Dates Are Selected for PyCon
“Selecting a city and dates for PyCon a is process that usually takes about 6 months and involves many layers.”
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Discussions


Containers Are 8 Bytes Smaller on Python 3.8
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Some Lessons From 16+ Years of Development
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Articles & Tutorials


Supercharge Your Classes With Python’s super()
In this step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to leverage single and multiple inheritance in your object-oriented application to supercharge your classes with Python’s super() function.
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Deploying Python ML Models With Flask, Docker And Kubernetes
How to deploy Machine Learning (ML) models into production environments by exposing them as RESTful API microservices hosted from within Docker containers, that are in-turn deployed to a cloud environment.
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Creating Python Functions Dynamically at Run-Time
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Jump Out of the Jupyter Notebook With nbconvert
How to easily convert notebooks to Python scripts and sharable files with nbconvert.
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Load Testing Python Web Applications
Short & sweet example of how to perform a basic load test of your Python web app using Locust.
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Test & Code #65: One Assert Per Test
Is it ok to have more than one assert statement in a test? In this episode Brian discusses where this recommendation came from, what the reasons for it are, and what potential downsides could be. Recommended listening if you write a lot of tests.
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Monte Carlo Simulation With Python
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Parsing Hidden HTML With Selenium Headless Mode & Heroku
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Building a Better Profanity Detection Library With Scikit-Learn
Why the author found existing libraries uninspiring and how he went about building a better solution.
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