Issue #389

Python Code Formatters, Python 2.7 Retirement, PyPy Gets Faster, and More

Oct. 8, 2019

Python Code Formatters, Python 2.7 Retirement, PyPy Gets Faster, and More
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Get Started With Django: Build a Portfolio App
In this course, you’ll learn the basics of creating powerful web applications with Django, a Python web framework. You’ll build a portfolio website to showcase your web development projects, complete with a fully functioning blog.
REAL PYTHON video

Auto Formatters for Python
An auto formatter is a tool that will format your code in a way it complies with the tool or any other standard it set. But which auto formatter should you use with Python code?
KEVIN PETERS • Shared by Kevin Peters

Monitor Your Python Applications With Datadog’s Distributed Tracing and APM
Debug and optimize your code by tracing requests across web servers, databases, and services in your environment—and seamlessly correlate those traces with metrics and logs to troubleshoot issues. Try Datadog in your environment with a free 14-day trial →
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Timsort: The Fastest Sorting Algorithm You’ve Never Heard Of
CPython uses Timsort for sorting containers. Timsort is a fast O(n log n) stable sorting algorithm built for the real world — not constructed in academia.
BRANDON SKERRITT

PyPy’s New JSON Parser
PyPy has a new and faster JSON parser implementation. This post covers the design decisions that were made to develop the new and improved parser.
PYPY STATUS BLOG

Automatically Reloading Python Modules With %autoreload
Tired of having to reload a module each time you change it? IPython’s %autoreload to the rescue!
SEBASTIAN WITOWSKI

Six Django Template Tags Not Often Used in Tutorials
{% for ... %} {% empty %} {% endfor %} anyone?
MEDIUM.COM/@HIGHCENBURG

(Floating Point) Numbers, They Lie
When and why 2 + 2 = 4.00000000000000000001
GLYPH LEFKOWITZ

Python 2.7 Retirement Countdown: ~2.5 Months
PYTHONCLOCK.ORG


Discussions


What’s Your Favorite Python Library?
Twitter discussion about everyone’s best-loved Python libraries. What’s your personal favorite?
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Articles & Tutorials


How Dictionaries Are Implemented in CPython
Learn what hash tables are, why you would use them, and how they’re used to implement dictionaries in the most popular Python interpreter: CPython.
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Building a Python C Extension Module
Learn how to write Python interfaces in C. Find out how to invoke C functions from within Python and build Python C extension modules. You’ll learn how to parse arguments, return values, and raise custom exceptions using the Python API.
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Automated Python Code Reviews, Directly From Your Git Workflow
Codacy lets developers spend more time shipping code and less time fixing it. Set custom standards and automatically track quality measures like coverage, duplication, complexity and errors. Integrates with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket, and works with 28 different languages. Get started today for free →
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Is Rectified Adam Actually Better Than Adam?
“Is the Rectified Adam (RAdam) optimizer actually better than the standard Adam optimizer? According to my 24 experiments, the answer is no, typically not (but there are cases where you do want to use it instead of Adam).”
ADRIAN ROSEBROCK

Using the Python zip() Function for Parallel Iteration
How to use Python’s built-in zip() function to solve common programming problems. You’ll learn how to traverse multiple iterables in parallel and create dictionaries with just a few lines of code.
REAL PYTHON

How Is Python 2 Supported in RHEL After 2020?
What the Py 2.x end-of-life deadline means in practice, e.g. “Just because the PSF consider Python 2 unsupported does not mean that Python 2 is unsupported within RHEL.” Also see the related discussion on Hacker News.
REDHAT.COM

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) With Python, From Scratch
Derive PCA from first principles and implement a working version in Python by writing all the linear algebra code from scratch. Nice tutorial!
ORAN LOONEY

Winning the Python Software Interview
Tips on acing your Python coding interview, PSF has a new Code of Conduct, and regex testing tools.
PYTHON BYTES FM podcast

Analyzing the Stack Overflow Survey With Python and Pandas
Do your own data science exploration and analysis on the annual developer survey’s dataset.
MOSHE ZADKA

Python 2 EOL: Are You Prepared? Take Our Survey for a Chance to Win a Drone!
Python 2 End of Life is coming soon. Please take our 5-minute survey to let us know how you’re preparing for the change. You’ll get the final results, plus the chance to win a camera drone. Thanks for your time!
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How to Add Maps to Django Web App Projects With Mapbox
Learn how to add maps and location-based data to your web applications using Mapbox.
MATT MAKAI

Coding a Simplex Solver From Scratch With Python
OLE KRÖGER

Write Your Own DNS Server in Python Hosted on Kubernetes
NEERAN GUL

Turn Python Scripts Into Beautiful ML Tools With Streamlit
ADRIEN TREUILLE

Python and Fast HTTP Clients
JULIEN DANJOU

Hiding Items From the Legend in Matplotlib
ROBIN WILSON


Projects & Code


re-assert: Show Where Your Regex Match Assertion Failed
GITHUB.COM/ASOTTILE

PyWaffle: Make Waffle Charts in Python
GITHUB.COM/GYLI • Shared by Guangyang Li

imagededup: Finding Duplicate Images Made Easy
GITHUB.COM/IDEALO

django-stubs: PEP-484 Type Checking Stubs for Django
GITHUB.COM/TYPEDDJANGO

flask-swagger-types: Swagger API Spec Generator and Type Checker for Flask
GITHUB.COM/PLAINAS

pybind11: Seamless Operability Between C++11 and Python
PYBIND11.READTHEDOCS.IO

pyflow: Dependency and Version Management System for Python
GITHUB.COM/DAVID-OCONNOR

pycld3: Python 3 Bindings for the Compact Language Detector V3 (CLD3)
BRAD SOLOMON

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October 12 to October 16, 2019

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