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Do you need help making data tables in Python look interesting and attractive? How can you create beautiful display-ready tables as easily as charts and graphs in Python? This week on the show, we speak with Richard Iannone and Michael Chow from Posit about the Great Tables Python library.
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Overview of the Module itertools
This article proposes the top 3 iterators that are most useful from the module itertools, classifies all of the 19 iterators into 5 categories, and then provides brief usage examples for all the iterators in the module itertools.
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Asyncio Event Loop in Separate Thread
Typically, the asyncio event loop runs in the main thread, but as that is the one used by the interpreter, sometimes you want the event loop to run in a separate thread. This article talks about why and how to do just that.
JASON BROWNLEE
Quiz: Python Type Checking
In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python type checking. You’ll revisit concepts such as type annotations, type hints, adding static types to code, running a static type checker, and enforcing types at runtime. This knowledge will help you develop your code more efficiently.
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Quiz: Build a Blog Using Django, GraphQL, and Vue
In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of building a Django blog back end and a Vue front end, using GraphQL to communicate between them. This will help you decouple your back end and front end, handle data persistence in the API, and display the data in a single-page app (SPA).
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PEP 751: A File Format to List Python Dependencies for Installation Reproducibility (New)
This PEP proposes a new file format for dependency specification to enable reproducible installation in a Python environment.
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Articles & Tutorials
Wide Angle Lens Distortion Correction With Straight Lines
Discusses how to estimate and correct wide-angle lens distortion using straight lines in an image. It covers techniques like the Radon transform, Hough transform, and an iterative optimization algorithm to estimate the distortion parameters and undistort the image. The author also provides Python code to match the division-based undistortion model to the OpenCV distortion model.
HUGO HADFIELD
Testing Python Integration With an Azure Eventhub
Using an Azure EventHub with Python is pretty easy thanks to Azure SDK for Python. However, ensuring that your code actually send events into an event hub in a reliable and automated way can be a bit harder. This article demonstrates how you can achieve this thanks to asyncio, docker and pytest.
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Crunchy Bridge Integrates Postgres with DuckDB
Postgres excels in managing transactional databases. DuckDB offers fast performance for queries and data analysis. Integrating these two databases provides a hybrid solution leveraging the strengths of both transactional and analytical workloads.
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pandas GroupBy: Grouping Real World Data in Python
In this course, you’ll learn how to work adeptly with the pandas GroupBy while mastering ways to manipulate, transform, and summarize data. You’ll work with real-world datasets and chain GroupBy methods together to get data into an output that suits your needs.
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10 Open-Source Tools for Optimizing Cloud Expenses
The cloud gets you scale, but it can also be complicated to price properly. This article covers ten different open source tools that you can use to optimize your deployment and understand the associated costs.
TARUN SINGH
Hugging Face Transformers: Open-Source AI With Python
As the AI boom continues, the Hugging Face platform stands out as the leading open-source model hub. In this tutorial, you’ll get hands-on experience with Hugging Face and the Transformers library in Python.
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Tanda Runner: A Personalized Running Dashboard
This post talks about a new dashboard tool for visualizing your Strava running data and getting personalized recommendations for your next big race. It is built using Django and includes a LLM integration.
DUARTE O.CARMO
You Don’t Have to Guess to Estimate
“There are roughly three senses of ‘estimate.’ One is ‘a prediction of how much something will cost.’ One is ‘a guess.’ But another definition is a rough calculation.”
NAT BENNETT
Using else in a Comprehension
While list comprehensions in Python don’t support the else keyword directly, conditional expressions can be embedded within list comprehension.
TREY HUNNER
TIL: Difference Between __getattr__ and __getattribute__
A quick post on the the difference between __getattr__ and __getattribute__.
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taipy: Turns Data Into a Web App
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pyxel: A Retro Game Engine for Python
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Herbie: Retrieve Weather Prediction Data
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Maelstrom: A Clustered Test Runner for Python and Rust
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