Issue #491

Structural Pattern Matching, Generator Expressions, Python Steps Forward, and More

Sept. 21, 2021

Structural Pattern Matching, Generator Expressions, Python Steps Forward, and More
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Structural Pattern Matching in Python 3.10
“Python 3.10, which is due out in early October 2021, will include a large new language feature called structural pattern matching. This article is a critical but (hopefully) informative presentation of the feature, with examples based on real-world code.”
BEN HOYT

Build a Personal Diary With Django and Python
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(Not) Unravelling Generator Expressions
What does that look like if you take away the Python “magic” of generator expressions and unravel them down to their core Python semantics?
BRETT CANNON

Python Anti-Pattern: Using a Mutable Default Value as an Argument
A debugging post-mortem.
VALI VOICU

Better PyPy JIT Support for Auto-Generated Python Code
CARL FRIEDRICH BOLZ-TEREICK

Debugging by Starting a REPL at a Breakpoint Is Fun
JULIA EVANS

Django 4.0 to Get a Built-in Redis Cache Backend
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Programming Languages: Python Is on the Verge of Another Big Step Forward
Python could soon take first place in one more programming language popularity ranking: “Python has never been so close to the number 1 position of the TIOBE index,” writes Paul Jansen, chief of Tiobe software. “It only needs to bridge 0.16% to surpass C. This might happen any time now. If Python becomes number 1, a new milestone has been reached in the TIOBE index. Only 2 other languages have ever been leading the pack so far, i.e. C and Java.”
LIAM TUNG

Pass by Reference in Python: Best Practices
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Using the “and” Boolean Operator in Python
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Validating and Formatting Phone Numbers in Python With phonenumbers
This article explains how to validate phonenumbers using the phonenumbers library. It also shows how to extract the meta information (such as carrier, geographical) from a phone number.
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How to Send Emails With Python
Learn how to send emails with Python using the smtplib and email modules. You’ll also learn how to send attachments.
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Introduction to Django slippers: Reusable Components
Slippers aims to augment Django’s template language with convenience features for writing reusable components.
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How I Patched Python to Include Ruby’s Inline “if”
What the author learned from adding “else-less” functionality to Python, as inspired by Ruby.
MIGUEL BRITO

Language Translation and OCR With Tesseract and Python
ADRIAN ROSEBROCK

Using OpenBSD’s pledge and unveil Syscalls From Python
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Improving Python Dependency Management With pipx and Poetry
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