Issue #540

Build a URL Shortener With FastAPI, Pythonic Mobile Apps, Mypy at Scale, and More

Aug. 30, 2022

Build a URL Shortener With FastAPI, Pythonic Mobile Apps, Mypy at Scale, and More
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Building a URL Shortener With FastAPI and Python
In this video course, you’ll build an app to create and manage shortened URLs. Your Python URL shortener can receive a full target URL and return a shortened URL. You’ll also use the automatically created documentation of FastAPI to try out your API endpoints.
REAL PYTHON course

Flet: Flutter Apps in Python
Flutter is a UI framework for mobile, desktop, and web apps. Flet is a Python library for using Flutter. This podcast is an interview with Feodor Fitsner the creator of Flet.
FITSNER & KENNEDY podcast

Scout APM: A Performance Monitoring Tool Built for Developers
Scout’s always-on monitoring will keep you ahead of performance outliers and allow you to analyze increased response time. With dashboards that will help you drill down into specific endpoints, Scout will save you time and resources and give your developers time to build applications people love →
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Phishing PyPI users: Compromised Projects Push Malware
PyPI is warning about a phishing campaign targeting its users; the attackers have compromised some legitimate projects to push malware. See also the original Tweet from PyPI.
ZELJKA ZORZ

Using Mypy in Production at Spring
Spring maintains Python software containing over 300k lines of code. This article discusses how they decided to start using Mypy and how it benefited them.
CHARLIE MARSH

Heroku Removing Free Tier
HEROKU.COM

100s of PyPI and npm Packages Affected With Cryptominers
MANIKANTA IMMANNI


Discussions


PEP 669: Low Impact Monitoring for CPython
PEP 669 proposes an API for low cost profiling in CPython. This discussion is a deep dive in how it could be done.
PYTHON.ORG


Python Jobs


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Backend Software Engineer
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Articles & Tutorials


IEEE Says Python’s #1, Employers Seek SQL
IEEE Spectrum’s ninth annual Top Programming Languages ranking is out and Python ranks first, followed closely by C. The small surprise is the growth of SQL which ranked first in the job-listing ranks.
STEPHEN CASS

Asynchronous Tasks With Django and Celery
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to integrate Celery and Django using Redis as a message broker. You’ll refactor the synchronous email sending functionality of an existing Django app into an asynchronous task that you’ll run with Celery instead.
REAL PYTHON

Your AI Opportunity Awaits
Python devs with AI training are rapidly advancing their careers while building the future. This is a great opportunity to sharpen your skills to tackle tomorrow’s technological challenges. Stand out in a competitive economic environment with the Intel® Edge AI Certification →
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Making Plots in Your Terminal With Plotext
This article shows you how to use the plotext package to quickly plot data from your terminal. It describes a small project that uses requests to fetch data from an API and plotext to graph it.
BOB BELDERBOS

Memory Management in Python
This three-part series covers how memory management works in Python, including pointers and references, immutables, object ids, how CPython knows when to delete things through reference counting, and the __del__ method.
ELI

How to Check if a Python String Contains a Substring
In this tutorial, you’ll learn the best way to check whether a Python string contains a substring. You’ll also learn about idiomatic ways to inspect the substring further, match substrings with conditions using regular expressions, and search for substrings in pandas.
REAL PYTHON

Python-Pandas Cheat Sheet: 30 Functions & Methods
A quick overview of 30 of the most common functions and methods in Pandas, including file loading, counting rows and columns, finding unique items, filtering, and lots more.
JYOTI KUMAR

The Rising Popularity of Python
Survey after survey shows Python at or near the top of the most popular languages and rising. See the latest places where your favorite language is topping the charts.
WILLIAM R MARCHAND

Find Your Next Tech Job Through Hired
Hired has 1000s of companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500s that are actively hiring developers, data scientists, mobile engineers, and more. Create a profile with your skills and preferences for hiring managers to reach you. Sign up today!
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Joyful Python with the REPL
REPL Driven Development is a workflow that makes coding both joyful and interactive. It’s even better than TDD. Read how to add IPython to your development process.
DAVID VUJIC • Shared by David Vujic

Python’s exec(): Execute Dynamically Generated Code
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Python’s built-in exec() function to execute code that comes as either a string or a compiled code object.
REAL PYTHON


Projects & Code


Brought to you by Real Python for Teamssponsor
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EasyMocap: Make Human Motion Capture Easier
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design-resources-for-devs: List of Design and UI Resources
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redis-search-django: Search Django ORM With RediSearch
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Manim: Python Library for Creating Mathematical Animations
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xonsh: Unix Shell With Python Integration
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EuroSciPy 2022
August 29 to September 3, 2022

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August 31, 2022

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August 31, 2022

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September 1, 2022

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