Daily Python: PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #361 (March 26, 2019)

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An Intro to Threading in Python

In this intermediate-level tutorial, you’ll learn how to use threading in your Python programs. You’ll see how to create threads, how to coordinate and synchronize them, and how to handle common problems that arise in threading.
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Is Python Pass-By-Reference or Pass-By-Value? (2014)

A great explanation of Python’s argument-passing semantics.
ROBERT HEATON

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Changing a Feature Without Breaking Legacy Code

Step by step post about how the author used Python’s decorator feature to change a piece of user facing functionality without breaking existing user code that uses it.
KSHITIJ CHAWLA

Deconstructing xkcd #1987 (Python Environments)

Brett breaks down the famous Python-related xkcd #1987 comic in an attempt to try an de-mystify what has happened to the artist’s laptop. Fun read!
BRETT CANNON

Intro to Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python

Learn the fundamentals of object-oriented programming (OOP) in Python and how to work with classes, objects, and constructors.
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Why Is Calculating the Mean of a List of Floats So Hard?

DAVID R. MACIVER

CPython 3.7.3 Is Now Available

Read the changelog here.
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When You Try to Choose a Meaningful Variable Name…

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How to Turn Django Admin Into a Lightweight Dashboard

How to turn Django Admin into a lightweight dashboard by adding a chart and a summary table. Recommended reading for Django Admin hackers :)
HAKI BENITA

Django Migrations 101

Get comfortable with Django migrations and learn how to create database tables without writing any SQL, how to automatically modify your database after you changed your models, and how to revert changes made to your database.
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Async/Await for wxPython

How to use async/await in wxPython with the wxasync library.
ANDY BULKA • Shared by Andy Bulka

Using Ephemeral Python Docker Containers as CLI Applications

How to use Docker containers to sandbox the complex inner workings of a Python command-line (CLI) application.
PRESLAV RACHEV

Multi-Stage Docker Builds for Python: Virtualenv, `--user`, and Other Methods

Learn the basics of Docker multi-stage builds for Python apps.
ITAMAR TURNER-TRAURING

Python for Reverse Engineering 1: ELF Binaries

“Building your own disassembly tooling for fun and profit.”
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Monolith vs Microservices: A Tale From Python at “Scale”

Going from monoliths to microservices, and back?
JAMES LIM

Python’s “else” Clause for Loops

With for and while loops in Python, the else clause is executed if the loop reached its natural end without encountering a break statement.
REUVEN LERNER

Projects & Code

PyPy v7.1 Released

The biggest change is that PyPy now uses utf-8 internally for unicode strings.
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pyright: Static Type Checker for Python

Microsoft launched a static type checker for Python, written in TypeScript. They claim that “Pyright is typically 5x or more faster than mypy and other type checkers that are written in Python.”
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lark: Modern Parsing Library for Python

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pywol: Wake-On-Lan Tool Written in Python

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iTerm2 Gets a Python API

iTerm 2 is a fantastic terminal emulator for macOS. And now it has a spiffy new Python API.
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d6tflow: Library for Building Highly Effective Data Science Workflows

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juniper: CLI for Packaging Lambda Functions

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