Issue #537

Finding & Fixing Python Bugs, Uncommon Usage, NBA Highlights, and More

Aug. 9, 2022

Finding & Fixing Python Bugs, Uncommon Usage, NBA Highlights, and More
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Finding and Fixing Python Code Bugs
Learn how to identify and fix logic errors, or bugs, in your Python code. You’ll use the built-in debugging tools in Python’s Integrated Development and Learning Environment to practice locating and resolving bugs in an example function.
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Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries
To learn more about writing maintainable Python, Eugene has been reading code from some of the more popular Python libraries. This blog post talks about some of the coding patterns he has encountered along the way.
EUGENE YAN

Scout APM: Built For Developers, By Developers
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Create NBA Highlights With a Few Lines of Python
Learn how to build a play-by-play scraper to process video data from an NBA game. Use Tesseract OCR to determine clock and quarter information, then match it up with the play-by-play data to create highlights.
NOAM EPHRAT

Python 3.10.6 Released
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Django 4.1 Released
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Discussions


How to Say No to a GitHub Issue Feature Request?
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Articles & Tutorials


Inspiring Kids to Learn Python
Is there someone in your life you’d like to inspire to learn Python? Mission Encodeable is a website designed to teach people to code, built by two high-school students. This week on the show, Anna and Harry Wake talk about creating their site and motivating people to start coding.
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Supercharging A/B Testing at Uber
“While the statistical underpinnings of A/B testing are a century old, building a correct and reliable A/B testing platform and culture at a large scale is still a massive challenge.” This blog post from Uber describes why and how they rebuilt their A/B testing platform.
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Python Constants: Improve Your Code’s Maintainability
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to properly define constants in Python. By coding a bunch of practical example, you’ll also learn how Python constants can improve your code’s readability, reusability, and maintainability.
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Choose the Right Python Concurrency API
How do you choose the right Python concurrency API? The standard library offers three choices. Learn the differences between the libraries and what problems are best solved by each.
JASON BROWNLEE

7 Things I’ve Learned Building a Modern TUI Framework
“I’ve be working on Textual for over a year now. Here’s a few things I’ve discovered (or re-discovered) regarding terminals in Python, and software development in general.”
WILL MCGUGAN

Simple Linear Regression Using Python
Learn how to do simple linear regression using the Python standard library, including how to prep your data set and a variety of statistical operations.
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Deepnote: A Better Data Science Notebook
Deepnote is a data notebook that’s built for collaboration and usability—Jupyter compatible, works magically in the cloud, and sharing is easy as sending a link. It’s also 100% free to get started. And you can run your first notebook in seconds.
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Using PyQtGraph to Create Interactive Plots
Learn how to create custom plots in PyQt6 with PyQtGraph, including building the graph, styling the lines and markers, axis labels, legends, and more.
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Connect to a MySQL Database in Python
This article covers four different methods you can use to connect to a MySQL database in Python with SSL enabled.
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