Issue #655

Web Scraping Tips, Python 3.13 Performance Boosts, Writing Interpreters & More

Nov. 12, 2024

Web Scraping Tips, Python 3.13 Performance Boosts, Writing Interpreters & More
#655 – NOVEMBER 12, 2024 VIEW IN BROWSER
The PyCoder’s Weekly Logo
Introduction to Web Scraping With Python
In this video course, you’ll learn all about web scraping in Python. You’ll see how to parse data from websites and interact with HTML forms using tools such as Beautiful Soup and MechanicalSoup.
REAL PYTHON course

State of Python 3.13 Performance: Free-Threading
This article does a comparison between code in single threaded, threaded, and multi-process versions under Python 3.12, 3.13, and 3.13 free-threaded with the GIL on and off.
ARTHUR PASTEL

Scrape Any Website Without Getting Blocked
The only web scraper API that extracts data at scale with a 98.7% average success rate while automatically handling all anti-bot systems. ZenRows is a complete web scraping toolkit with premium proxies, anti-CAPTCHA, headless browsers, and more. Try for free now →
ZENROWSsponsor

Tiny Great Languages: Assembly
This is the first post in a multi-part series that uses Python to build tiny interpreters for other languages.
SERGE ZAITSEV

Django Bugfix Release Issued: 5.1.3
DJANGO SOFTWARE FOUNDATION

PyCon US 2025 (Pittsburgh) Call for Proposals
PRETALX.COM

Quiz: Beautiful Soup: Build a Web Scraper With Python
REAL PYTHON

Quiz: Pydantic: Simplifying Data Validation in Python
REAL PYTHON


Articles & Tutorials


Opposite of Cloud Native Is…?
Michael (from Talk Python fame) introduces the concept of “stack-native” as the opposite of “cloud-native”, and how it applies to Python web apps. Building applications with just enough full-stack building blocks to run reliably with minimal complexity, rather than relying on a multitude of cloud services.
MICHAEL KENNEDY

How to Reset a pandas DataFrame Index
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to reset a pandas DataFrame index using various techniques. You’ll also learn why you might want to do this and understand the problems you can avoid by optimizing the index structure.
REAL PYTHON

Do Your Data Science Teams Struggle to Share Their Work With Their Colleagues Securely
Posit Connect lets data teams publish, host, & manage Python work. It provides a secure, scalable platform for sharing data insights with those who need them, including models, Jupyter notebooks, Streamlit & Shiny apps, Plotly dashboards, and more.
POSITsponsor

Python Closures: Common Use Cases and Examples
In this tutorial, you’ll learn about Python closures. A closure is a function-like object with an extended scope. You can use closures to create decorators, factory functions, stateful functions, and more.
REAL PYTHON

In Defense of Simple Architectures
You can go surprisingly far with a simple software architecture, in fact simplicity can make it easier to scale. This post talks about some real world cases of just that.
DAN LUU

Vehicle Routing Using OpenStreetMap
This project shows you how to implement the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) using OpenStreetMap data and Google’s OR-Tools library to find efficient routes.
MEDIUM.COM/P • Shared by Albert Ferré

Guide to Python Project Management and Packaging
This is a deep dive article on Python project management and packaging. It covers the pyproject.toml file, modules, dependencies, locking, and more.
REINFORCED KNOWLEDGE

I Waited 10B Cycles and All I Got Was This Loading Screen
This opinion piece discusses the fact that our faster hardware still can’t keep up with our bloated software and why that is the case.
PRANAV NUTALAPTI

Thoughts on Django’s Core
This post by a Django core developer talks about the last twenty years of the library and why it has had such staying power.
CARLTON GIBSON

map and filter With List Comprehensions
This quick-hit post shows you how to use the map() and filter() functions in conjunction with list comprehensions.
JUHA-MATTI SANTALA

Don’t Return Named Tuples in New APIs
This post talks about when and when not to use a named tuple in your API and why you might make that choice.
BRETT CANNON


Projects & Code


Brought to you by Real Python for Teamssponsor
Online Python training created by a community of experts. Give your team the real-world Python skills they need to succeed →

mininterface: A Minimal Interface to Python Application
GITHUB.COM/CZ-NIC

deutschland: German Dataset Collection
GITHUB.COM/BUNDESAPI

pytest-metadata: Plugin for Accessing Test Session Metadata
GITHUB.COM/PYTEST-DEV

BlendModes: Apply Blending Modes to Images
GITHUB.COM/FHPYTHONUTILS

django-admin-dracula: Dracula Themes for the Django Admin
GITHUB.COM/SJBITCODE

📆🐍 Upcoming Python Events


IndyPy Hosts “AI & Data for Good”
November 12, 2024

Weekly Real Python Office Hours Q&A (Virtual)
November 13, 2024

PyCon Sweden 2024
November 14 to November 16, 2024

Python Atlanta
November 15, 2024

PyCon Hong Kong 2024
November 16 to November 17, 2024

PyCon Mini Tokai 2024
November 16 to November 17, 2024

PyCon Ireland 2024
November 16 to November 18, 2024

PyConAU 2024
November 22 to November 27, 2024
Happy Pythoning!
Copyright © 2024 PyCoder’s Weekly, All rights reserved.