Issue #592

Concurrency, Arguments, Flask, and More

Aug. 29, 2023

Concurrency, Arguments, Flask, and More
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Asyncio, Twisted, Tornado, Gevent Walk Into a Bar…
A good introduction to I/O bound concurrency in Python and the libraries used to achieve it. Has a nice compare and contrast between the approaches and finishes with some good advice: you probably don’t need any of them.
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What Are Python Asterisk and Slash Special Parameters For?
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the Python asterisk and slash special parameters in function definitions. With these symbols, you can define whether your functions will accept positional or keyword arguments.
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Deep Dive Into Flask Guide
Become a better web developer by taking a deep dive into Flask’s internals to learn about its core features and functionality.
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Python 3.11.5, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18 Released
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Improving Classification Models With XGBoost
How can you improve a classification model while avoiding overfitting? Once you have a model, what tools can you use to explain it to others? This week on the show, we talk with author and Python trainer Matt Harrison about his new book Effective XGBoost: Tuning, Understanding, and Deploying Classification Models.
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Build a Code Image Generator With Python
In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll build a code image generator that creates nice-looking images of your code snippets to share on social media. Your code image generator will be powered by the Flask web framework and include exciting packages like Pygments and Playwright.
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Build Invincible Apps With Temporal’s Python SDK
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Usages of Underscore
This article teaches you about all of the use cases that the underscore (_) has in Python, from the use cases that have syntactic impact, to well-accepted conventions that make your code semantically clearer, to usages that improve the readability of your code.
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7 Sneaky Tricks to Crush Slow Database Queries
“Optimizing Django query performance is critical for building performant web applications.” This blog post explores a collection of additional and essential tips that help pinpoint and resolve your inefficient Django queries.
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Table Recognition and Extraction With PyMuPDF
This blog post walks you through programmatically identifying tables on PDF pages and extracting their content using PyMuPDF. Table identification and extraction was recently added in PyMuPDF version 1.23.0.
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Operator Overloading in Python
Python is an object-oriented programming language and one of its features is that it supports operator overloading, learn how to overload common operators such as addition, subtraction, comparison, and more.
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Click and Python: Build Extensible and Composable CLI Apps
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the Click library to build robust, extensible, and user-friendly command-line interfaces (CLI) for your Python automation and tooling scripts.
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Learn How to Deploy Scientific AI Models to Edge Environments, Using OpenVINO Model Server
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Understanding Automatic Differentiation in 30 Lines of Python
Automatic differentiation is at the heart of neural network training. This article introduces you to the concept by showing you some Python that implements the algorithm.
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Make Each Line Count, Keeping Things Simple in Python
Simplicity is hard. This article talks briefly about how you approach coding while keeping things simple.
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