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Annotating self, Context Managers, PEP 723, and More

#590 – AUGUST 15, 2023 VIEW IN BROWSER
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How to Annotate Methods That Return self
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the Self type hint in Python to annotate methods that return an instance of their own class. You’ll gain hands-on experience with type hints and annotations of methods that return an instance of their class, making your code more readable and maintainable.
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Creating a Context Manager in Python
Objects with __enter__ and __exit__ methods can be used as context managers in Python. This article (and screencast) explains most of what you’ll want to know when creating your own context managers.
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PEP 723: Embedding pyproject.toml in Single-File Scripts
This PEP proposes a metadata format which a single-file script can use to specify dependency and tool information for IDEs and external development tools. It replaces PEP 722.
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PyPI: 2FA Enforcement for New User Registrations
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PSF Announces New PyPI Safety & Security Engineer
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Prompt Engineering: A Practical Example
Learn prompt engineering techniques with a practical, real-world project to get better results from large language models. This tutorial covers zero-shot and few-shot prompting, delimiters, numbered steps, role prompts, chain-of-thought prompting, and more. Improve your LLM-assisted projects today.
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Why Static Languages Suffer From Complexity
An extremely detailed, deep dive on how static type systems impact the consistency of languages. Hirrolot compares a variety of lesser known languages to see the consequences of their decisions. See also the associated Hacker News discussion.
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Python’s list: A Deep Dive With Examples
In this tutorial, you’ll dive deep into Python’s lists. You’ll learn how to create them, update their content, populate and grow them, and more. Along the way, you’ll code practical examples that will help you strengthen your skills with this fundamental data type in Python.
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A Complete Comparison of Sorting Algorithms
An comprehensive comparison on the performance of 9 major Sorting Algorithms and how well they perform under varying circumstances. The aim of the article is to show you where each type of Algorithms shines, and where it does badly.
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Support Bootstrap-Alerts in Python-Markdown
If you’re using Markdown on your blog, or any website, a conversion pipeline allows you to create your own rules and widgets. This article shows you how to integrate Bootstrap Alert boxes into a Markdown workflow.
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How a Simple Import Can Modify the Interpreter
This article shows a sample module that swaps the values for 8 and 9, not something generally recommended. Learn how side effects from an import can impact your code and just what the integer object cache is.
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Does Elegance Matter?
In this article, the author explains why he thinks that elegance should be a fundamental driver when you are writing (Python) code, and gives a few tips on how to write elegant code.
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Why Python Is Amazing
This opinion piece by Jos is a counter to the “its a terrible language” posts you come across once and a while. Read why Jos thinks Python is amazing.
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Llama From Scratch
This blog post provides step by step instructions on how to implement llama from scratch, using a dramatically scaled-down version for training.
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Learn How to Deploy Scientific AI Models to Edge Environments, Using OpenVINO Model Server
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Adversarial Attacks on Aligned LLMs
Deep CS paper on how to abuse Large Language Models and work around restrictions where the model is refusing to answer.
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2022 PSF Annual Report
The annual report from the Python Software Foundation details all the changes and events at the PSF last year.
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Pandas 2.0, Foreign Functions, Versioning, and More

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Exploring Pandas 2.0 & Targets for Apache Arrow #589 – AUGUST 8, 2023 VIEW IN BROWSER The PyCoder's Weekly Logo Exploring Pandas 2.0 & Targets for Apache Arrow What are the new ways to

F-Strings in Py3.12, Profiling, Quirks, No-GIL, and More

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Python 3.12 Preview: More Intuitive and Consistent F-Strings #588 – AUGUST 1, 2023 VIEW IN BROWSER The PyCoder's Weekly Logo Python 3.12 Preview: More Intuitive and Consistent F-Strings In this

Folium, 6502 Emulator, Pystack, and More

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Creating Web Maps From Your Data With Python Folium #587 – JULY 25, 2023 VIEW IN BROWSER The PyCoder's Weekly Logo Creating Web Maps From Your Data With Python Folium You'll learn how to create

Mazes, Organizing Monoliths, Passing NumPy Arrays, and More

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Mazes in Python Part 2: Storing and Solving #586 – JULY 18, 2023 VIEW IN BROWSER The PyCoder's Weekly Logo Mazes in Python Part 2: Storing and Solving In part two of this two-part project, you'

Python 3.12 Profiler, Netflix, Numba Vectorize, and More

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

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