Tuesday, September 7, 2021

PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #489 (Sept. 7, 2021)

#489 – SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
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PEP 668: Graceful Cooperation Between External and Python Package Managers

This draft PEP proposes a way for resolving conflicts between OS package managers (e.g. apt) and Python-specific package management tools (e.g. pip).
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How Long Does It Take to Learn Python?

How should someone assess whether or not learning Python is a good investment of their time, how long it will take them, and what background factors they need to consider when planning their learning journey? This article attempts to clarify these common beginner questions.
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Track Python Application Performance With End-to-End Tracing With Datadog APM

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With Datadog APM you can debug errors and bottlenecks in your code by tracing requests across web servers and services in your environment. Then correlate between distributed request traces, metrics, and logs to troubleshoot issues without switching tools or contexts. Try Datadog APM free →
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How You Can Track Your Personal Finances Using Python

This post introduces readers to a workflow for tracking their personal finances using only the Python ecosystem. The end result is extremely focused on data privacy, uses only open-source software, and is 100% self-hosted.
SIDDHANT GOEL

Exciting New Ways to Be Told That Your Python Code Is Bad

How and why the author added two new linter rules to Pylint: consider-ternary-expression and while-used.
NICK DROZD

Saving Costs Asking for Forgiveness in Python

A discussion of EAFP (“Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission”) vs LBYL (“Look before you leap”) code patterns in Python.
WALID ZIOUCHE

Nuitka 0.6.15 Released

Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python, compatible with Python2 (2.6, 2.7) and Python3 (3.3–3.9). You feed Nuitka your Python source code and it generates an executable or extension module.
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Articles & Tutorials

Harnessing Python’s math Module and Exposing Practical Pandas Functions

How well do you know Python’s math module? Maybe you’ve used a few of the constants or arithmetic functions. You may be surprised by the amount of functionality hiding within this built-in library, and perhaps you don’t need to reach for an additional outside library for common use cases.
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Making NumPy Accessible: Guidelines and Tools

“NumPy is now foundational to Python scientific computing. Our efforts reach millions of developers each month. As our user base grows, we recognize that we are neglecting the disabled community by not having our website and documentation up to modern accessibility standards.”
MARS LEE

Developing a Django Application Using AWS and NICE DCV (Tutorial)

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In this in-depth tutorial for beginners, you’ll learn how to run, build, test, and deploy a Django application in PyCharm Professional using the Django Rest Framework and the AWS stack with NICE DCV. Use the code DJANGOTUTORIAL and get 3 months of PyCharm Professional for free →
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Development and Release of Type4Py: Machine Learning-Based Type Auto-Completion for Python

”[…] retrofitting types is a cumbersome and error-prone process. To address this, we propose Type4Py, an ML-based type auto-completion for Python. It assists developers to gradually add type annotations to their codebases.”
AMIR MIR

Graph Your Data With Python and ggplot

Learn how to use ggplot in Python to build data visualizations with plotnine. You’ll discover what a grammar of graphics is and how it can help you create plots in a very concise and consistent way.
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Web Scraping in Python: Scaling to Distributed Crawling

“Build your own distributed crawler with custom parsers […] Discover new pages and store the exact content you need, all in less than 300 LOC.”
ANDER RODRÍGUEZ

Why Tracing Might Replace (Almost) All Logging

Lightstep CEO and Co-founder Ben Sigelman shares his vision for the future of distributed tracing.
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Visualizing Python Modules and Dependencies With Neo4j

“A simple neo4j tutorial about a Python tool that ingests information about all installed Python modules on your computer and visualizes it.”
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Intro to Creating Graphs with Python + matplotlib

Learn how to create multiple types of graphs and add legends, titles and more in this tutorial about matplotlib and Python.
MIKE DRISCOLL

Python Without an Operating System [2015]

How Josh Triplett and his colleagues at Intel got the Python interpreter to run inside the GRUB boot loader.
JAKE EDGE

attrs vs pydantic

An account of why the author prefers using the attrs library over Pydantic.
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Projects & Code

Events

PyConline AU 2021

September 10 to September 13, 2021
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PyCon Odessa 2021

September 11 to September 13, 2021
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Python Miami

September 11 to September 12, 2021
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Dominican Republic Python User Group

September 14 to September 15, 2021
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PyCon India 2021

September 17 to September 21, 2021
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Happy Pythoning!
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