#454 – JANUARY 5, 2021
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Ditching Excel for Python: Lessons Learned From a Legacy Industry
Learn how Python is revolutionizing an industry that’s notoriously resistant to change and fraught with every programmer’s most dreaded tool: Excel spreadsheets.
AMY PENISTON
Python Is TIOBE’s Programming Language of 2020
For the fourth time, Python has won TIOBE’s Programming Language of the Year award. The award goes to the programming language that has gained the most popularity in one year, with Python rising by 2.01% in 2020.
TIOBE.COM
Automate Python Profiling and Performance Testing
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Python Behind the Scenes: How Python Attributes Work
Take a deep dive into how Python attributes work, including a detailed analysis of the CPython code.
VICTOR SKVORTSOV
Python Testing & Packaging Best Practices With tox
How to ensure that your tests run code that you think they are running, and how to measure your coverage over multiple tox runs (in parallel.)
HYNEK SCHLAWACK
Building HTTP APIs With Django REST Framework (DRF)
Django REST framework (DRF) is a toolkit built on top of the Django web framework that reduces the amount of code you need to write to create RESTful HTTP APIs.
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Discussions
Spent 9 hours Finding a Bug Yesterday, Took 15 minutes to Figure It Out Today
The hardest problem in programming isn’t naming things. It’s knowing when to take a break!
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Articles & Tutorials
Python Bug Hunt: node.example.com Is an IP Address?
Read about how a majorly confusing bug led one developer to a deeper understanding of text, how Python 2 and Python 3 handle text differently (hey, some people still have to support legacy Python!), and why you should always, always write tests.
REILLY TUCKER SIEMENS
PEP 648: Extensible Customizations of the Interpreter at Startup
Did you know you can customize the Python interpreter and even tell it to execute code at startup time? The current system for implementing these customizations is a bit dated, and this PEP proposes a change that brings a lot more flexibility and extensibility to this little-known feature.
MARIO CORCHERO
Python Tricks: A Buffet of Awesome Python Features
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How Python’s Evolution Impacts Your Fluency With Luciano Ramalho
“Luciano Ramalho is best known as the author of Fluent Python which has quickly become a leading resource for Python developers to increase their facility with the language. In this episode he shares his journey with Python and his perspective on how the recent changes to the interpreter and ecosystem are influencing who is adopting it and how it is being used.”
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Quantitative Economics With Python
Python has played increasingly important roles in the finance and economics spaces. Learn the fundamentals of quantitative economics from these free and in-depth written lectures with tons of examples in Python.
THOMAS J. SARGENT AND JOHN STACHURSKI
How to Merge DataFrames in Pandas
Examples on how to combine DataFrames in Pandas using the merge, join, append, concat, combine_first, and update functions.
RUSLAN HASANOV
Using Django & AssemblyAI for More Accurate Twilio Call Transcriptions
Use Python, Django and AssemblyAI’s transcription API to improve recording accuracy for Twilio Programmable Voice phone calls.
MATT MAKAI
Python’s .append(): Add Items to Your Lists in Place
Learn how Python’s .append() works and how to use it for adding items to your list in place. You’ll also learn how to code your own stacks and queues using .append() and .pop().
REAL PYTHON
Doing Python Development Under Mac OS
Setting up a development environment isn’t always easy. Learn how one developer streamlined his approach on macOS.
PETER WHITTAKER
Python Typing: Resisting the Any Type
Explore three ways to use type hints more explicitly in Python and avoid using the Any type.
JARED KHAN • Shared by Jared Khan
Projects & Code
finite-state-machine: Lightweight, Decorator-Based Python Implementation of a Finite State Machine
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Real Python Office Hours (Virtual)
January 20, 2020
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February 19 – 21, 2021
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May 12 – 18, 2021
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Happy Pythoning!
This was PyCoder’s Weekly Issue #454.
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