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Welcome to issue 595 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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News

Bloomberg Launches FOSS Fund to Support Free and Open Source Projects
Bloomberg's OSPO and Corporate Philanthropy teams partnered to enable direct employee engagement to help sustain open source projects critical to our work. The three open source projects chosen as the recipients of the company’s inaugural FOSS Contributor Fund grants are Apache Arrow, Curl and Celery.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Now You Have Three Problems
There's a popular programming trope that if the solution to your problem involves parsing text with a regular expression, you now have two problems. Some programmers read this and think to try a different approach. Perhaps you don't actually need a regex. Maybe the problem can be solved with a simple string split or something. However, others might think a bit harder and wonder "what if I did something so audacious that it resulted in three problems?" This post is in the spirit of that!

Raw SQL, SQL Query Builder, or ORM?

Not sure if you should use Raw SQL, a SQL query builder, or an ORM for your next project? This video explores the pros and cons of each option, allowing you to make an informed decision based on your specific needs. Choosing the wrong technology for your project can be a costly mistake, so it's crucial to understand these tools.

A Gentle Introduction to the Python Match Statement
Learn about how structural pattern matching works in Python and how it can help you write cleaner, more maintainable, and more understandable code.

The ultimate guide to Pandas’ read_csv() function
Here I unravel the mysteries behind the omnipotent and overwhelmingly complicated read_csv() function, including new features added in Pandas 2.0.

Making Python 100x faster with less than 100 lines of Rust
The author shows how to use rust to speed up the Python implementation of the "poly_match" algorithm. by 100x

Using Unpoly with Django
The article provides a tutorial on using Unpoly, a JavaScript library for seamless and fast dynamic web applications, with Django. It covers how to install and configure Unpoly, integrate it with Django views and templates, and use its various features, such as remote forms, partial page updates, and navigation.

Fun with Vector Databases
A post about using Python and FastAPI with vector databases and semantic search.

Python Monorepo: an Example. Part 1: Structure and Tooling
In this post, we describe a design for a Python monorepo: how we structure it; which tools we favor; alternatives that were considered; and some possible improvements.

The different uses of Python type hints

Common pitfalls of GitHub Actions

Improve your Django Code with pre-commit

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

e2b
e2b (english2bits) is an IDE powered by AI agents. Developers describe what they want to build by writing documentation. Then let AI agents with access to tools do the coding work.

Savant
Python Streaming Video Analytics Framework With Batteries Included.

Auto-GPT
An experimental open-source attempt to make GPT-4 fully autonomous.

Zero
A simple, fast, high performance and low latency Python framework (RPC like) for building microservices or distributed servers.

Girok
A powerful and beautiful CLI scheduler.

openplayground
An LLM playground you can run on your laptop.

taskiq
Distributed task queue with full async support.

nanobind
Tiny and efficient C++/Python bindings.

ReactPy
Reactive user interfaces with pure Python.

cy-root
Python package containing root-finding methods written in Cython.

PyQt-Fluent-Widgets
A fluent design widgets library based on PyQt5.

vocode-python
Vocode is an open source library that makes it easy to build voice-based LLM apps.

FastChat
An open platform for training, serving, and evaluating large language model based chatbots.

tomesd
Speed up Stable Diffusion with this one simple trick!

New Releases

Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2023 Release
This release includes the following announcements:

Data Wrangler available for Visual Studio Code Insiders
Move symbol refactoring
Create Environment button embedded in dependency files
Environments API for extension authors
Kernel Picker Improvements for Python Environments

Django 4.2 released
Django 4.2 is designated as a long-term support release. It will receive security updates for at least three years after its release. Support for the previous LTS, Django 3.2, will end in April 2024.

Upcoming Events and Webinars

PyData NYC Meetup April 2023
There will be a talk, Intro to Airflow covering everything you need to know to get started with Airflow.

PyData Denver Meetup April 2023
There will be a talk, Recipe Generator: Web Scraping and ChatGPT.

PyData Warsaw Meetup April 2023
There will be following talks

FOLLISCAN: how to automate an ultrasound examination with deep learning?
Limitations of content generation with AI (spoiler: the sky's the limit)

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