Issue #489

PEP 668, Python for Personal Finance, EAFP vs LBYL, and More

Sept. 7, 2021

PEP 668, Python for Personal Finance, EAFP vs LBYL, and More
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PEP 668: Graceful Cooperation Between External and Python Package Managers
This draft PEP proposes a way for resolving conflicts between OS package managers (e.g. apt) and Python-specific package management tools (e.g. pip).
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How Long Does It Take to Learn Python?
How should someone assess whether or not learning Python is a good investment of their time, how long it will take them, and what background factors they need to consider when planning their learning journey? This article attempts to clarify these common beginner questions.
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Track Python Application Performance With End-to-End Tracing With Datadog APM
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How You Can Track Your Personal Finances Using Python
This post introduces readers to a workflow for tracking their personal finances using only the Python ecosystem. The end result is extremely focused on data privacy, uses only open-source software, and is 100% self-hosted.
SIDDHANT GOEL

Exciting New Ways to Be Told That Your Python Code Is Bad
How and why the author added two new linter rules to Pylint: consider-ternary-expression and while-used.
NICK DROZD

Saving Costs Asking for Forgiveness in Python
A discussion of EAFP (“Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission”) vs LBYL (“Look before you leap”) code patterns in Python.
WALID ZIOUCHE

Nuitka 0.6.15 Released
Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python, compatible with Python2 (2.6, 2.7) and Python3 (3.3–3.9). You feed Nuitka your Python source code and it generates an executable or extension module.
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Credit-Card-Stealing, Backdoored Packages Found on PyPI
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Discussions


Is Django Rest Framework (DRF) Still Considered Alive?
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If You Managed the Django Project, What Would You Focus on in the Next 12 Months?
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What Were the First 5 Programs You Made?
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Harnessing Python’s math Module and Exposing Practical Pandas Functions
How well do you know Python’s math module? Maybe you’ve used a few of the constants or arithmetic functions. You may be surprised by the amount of functionality hiding within this built-in library, and perhaps you don’t need to reach for an additional outside library for common use cases.
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Making NumPy Accessible: Guidelines and Tools
“NumPy is now foundational to Python scientific computing. Our efforts reach millions of developers each month. As our user base grows, we recognize that we are neglecting the disabled community by not having our website and documentation up to modern accessibility standards.”
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Developing a Django Application Using AWS and NICE DCV (Tutorial)
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Development and Release of Type4Py: Machine Learning-Based Type Auto-Completion for Python
”[…] retrofitting types is a cumbersome and error-prone process. To address this, we propose Type4Py, an ML-based type auto-completion for Python. It assists developers to gradually add type annotations to their codebases.”
AMIR MIR

Graph Your Data With Python and ggplot
Learn how to use ggplot in Python to build data visualizations with plotnine. You’ll discover what a grammar of graphics is and how it can help you create plots in a very concise and consistent way.
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Web Scraping in Python: Scaling to Distributed Crawling
“Build your own distributed crawler with custom parsers […] Discover new pages and store the exact content you need, all in less than 300 LOC.”
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Why Tracing Might Replace (Almost) All Logging
Lightstep CEO and Co-founder Ben Sigelman shares his vision for the future of distributed tracing.
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Visualizing Python Modules and Dependencies With Neo4j
“A simple neo4j tutorial about a Python tool that ingests information about all installed Python modules on your computer and visualizes it.”
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Intro to Creating Graphs with Python + matplotlib
Learn how to create multiple types of graphs and add legends, titles and more in this tutorial about matplotlib and Python.
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Python Without an Operating System [2015]
How Josh Triplett and his colleagues at Intel got the Python interpreter to run inside the GRUB boot loader.
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attrs vs pydantic
An account of why the author prefers using the attrs library over Pydantic.
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What Is Python’s Ellipsis () Object?
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venv-kernel: Use Your Virtual Environments From Within Jupyter Notebooks
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