Issue #399

What Makes Python Great, Design Patterns vs Anti-Patterns, Poetry 1.0, and More

Dec. 17, 2019

What Makes Python Great, Design Patterns vs Anti-Patterns, Poetry 1.0, and More
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What Makes Python a Great Language?
“What makes Python a great language? It gets the need to know balance right. […] I would argue that the Python language has an incredibly well-balanced sense of what developers need to know. Better than any other language I’ve used.”
STEVE DOWER

Python Statistics Fundamentals: How to Describe Your Data
In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn the fundamentals of descriptive statistics and how to calculate them in Python. You’ll find out how to describe, summarize, and represent your data visually using NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and the built-in Python statistics library.
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Python Anti-Patterns
“Learning about these anti-patterns will help you to avoid them in your own code and make you a better programmer (hopefully). Each pattern comes with a small description, examples and possible solutions.”
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Documenting Python Code: A Complete Guide
Whether you’re documenting a small script or a large project, whether you’re a beginner or seasoned Pythonista, this video series will cover everything you need to know.
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Poetry 1.0 Released
Congratulations! Related discussion on Hacker News.
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How to Use Pandas to Access Databases
Tips and best practices for exploring SQL databases with Pandas and SQLAlchemy.
IRINA TRUONG


Discussions


F-Strings Are Amazingly Fast!
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urllib3 Is the Most Downloaded Package on PyPI
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From 1965 to 2019, the Most Popular Programming Languages (Animation)
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Articles & Tutorials


Data Engineer Interview Questions With Python
This tutorial will prepare you for some common questions you’ll encounter during your data engineer interview. You’ll learn how to answer questions about databases, ETL pipelines, and big data workflows. You’ll also take a look at SQL, NoSQL, and Redis use cases and query examples.
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A Tiny Python Exception Oddity
“This would likely going to be found totally irrelevant by 99.999% of Python programmers. If you are not the type of person who is annoyed by tiny oddities, you probably do not want to read any further.”
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Python Developers Are in Demand on Vettery
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Experiments in Constraint-Based Graphic Design
“I’ve been hacking on this new [Python] DSL for design that allows the designer to specify figures in terms of relationships, which are compiled down to constraints and solved using an SMT solver.”
ANISH ATHALYE

Reducing NumPy Memory Usage With Lossless Compression
How to reduce memory usage via smaller dtypes and sparse arrays, and what to do in situations where these solutions won’t work.
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How to Document Python Code With Sphinx
A quick tutorial on documenting your Python project with the Sphinx documentation generator and tox for build automation.
MOSHE ZADKA

Python Internals: Symbol Tables (2010)
How CPython implements and uses symbol tables in its quest to compile Python source code into bytecode.
ELI BENDERSKY

Property-Based Testing for API Schemas
Thoughts about how API schemas could be used for property-based testing.
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Measure and Improve Python Code Performance With Blackfire.io
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10 Python Libraries of 2019 You Should Know About
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Type Hints for Busy Python Programmers
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Design Patterns in Python
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Neuraxle: Framework for Hyperparameter Tuning
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