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Welcome to issue 653 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Trojan Embedded in crytic-compilers Python Package Targets Popular Blockchain Utility
The Socket Research Team has identified a malicious Python package that is typosquatting the popular crytic-compile utility, frequently used in popular toolkits and development environments for smart contracts and crypto applications.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

FineWeb: decanting the web for the finest text data at scale
The article introduces FineWeb, a Hugging Face project aimed at extracting high-quality text data from the web at scale. It highlights the methodology and tools used to ensure the gathered data is of the finest quality for training AI models, emphasizing the importance of clean and relevant text data for machine learning applications.

`bytes`: The Lesser-Known Python Built-In Sequence • And Understanding UTF-8 Encoding
The `bytes` data type looks a bit like a string, but it isn't a string. Let's explore it and also look at the main Unicode encoding, UTF-8.

I Built a Reusable Dashboard for Read the Docs Traffic Analytics Using Vizro-AI
The article demonstrates how to create a dashboard to visualize traffic data for a Read the Docs documentation project using Vizro for building the dashboard layout and Vizro-AI to generate individual charts from natural language instructions and data. This low-code approach enables creating visualizations without extensive design or Python skills.

Designing data loaders in Python classes
If you are designing an API that loads data into a standard format, consider the from_ and to_ syntax to describe data loaders. from_ data loaders should read data and serialise it into a class for processing, and to_ data loaders should convert data to another format, or save data to disk.

How to use React with Django (in 10 mins)

The simplest way to set up a React.js frontend and a Django REST API backend.

Statically Typed Functional Programming with Python 3.12
The article demonstrates how to use Python 3.12's new type alias and union type syntax to define a simple expression-based language with dataclasses, and then implements an evaluator function using pattern matching to evaluate expressions in that language.

Python at the Speed of Julia
The article explores achieving Python's ease of use with Julia's speed, illustrating how to optimize Python code using Julia for high-performance computing tasks. It provides examples and insights on integrating both languages to enhance computational efficiency without sacrificing Python's simplicity.

FMP Notebooks
Python Notebooks for Fundamentals of Music Processing.

The State of Django 2024
Discover the Django framework's popularity through statistics and learn the latest trends in Django development for 2024.

Python's many command-line utilities
Every command-line tool included with Python. These can be run with python -m module_name.

Let’s optimize! Running 15× faster with a situation-specific algorithm
Sometimes the best way to speed up your algorithm is to adjust it to the specifics of your data.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

PlayBooks
Runbook automation platform with deep observability integrations & Jupyter-notebooks style interface.

groqbook
Generate entire books in seconds using Groq and Llama3.

HolmesGPT
The Open Source DevOps Assistant - solve problems twice as fast with an AI teammate.

wakepy
Cross-platform keep-awake with Python.

cachebox
The fastest caching Python library written in Rust.

Rio
WebApps in pure Python. No JavaScript, HTML and CSS needed.

Omost
Omost is a project to convert LLM's coding capability to image generation (or more accurately, image composing) capability.

ToonCrafter
A research paper for generative cartoon interpolation.

Vista
A Generalizable World Model for Autonomous Driving.

awesome-llm-apps
Collection of awesome LLM apps with RAG using OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and opensource models.

smbclient-ng
A fast and user friendly way to interact with SMB shares.

julep
Open-source alternative to Assistant's API with a managed backend for memory, RAG, tools and tasks. ~Supabase for building AI agents.

Mesop
Build delightful web apps quickly in Python.

ChatTTS
ChatTTS is a generative speech model for daily dialogue.

llm-regression
Exploring the classical regression capabilities of LLMs.

Prettypretty
Prettypretty helps build awesome terminal user interfaces in Python. Notably, it incorporates a powerful and general color library.

Upcoming Events and Webinars

San Francisco Python Meetup June 2024
There will be following talks

A Python App to Explore how Covid Changed America
Introduction to RAG
Deploying Embeddings Inference in Production

Hybrid: PyMunich Meetup June 2024
There will be following talks

Let's make Python better: The most awesome "Hello, World!"
Intro to Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Evaluating RAG applications with Phoenix

Hybird: IndyPy Panel: AI Powered by Python
A panel discussion that will dive into the evolving landscape of AI, explore Python's pivotal role in modern AI solutions, and uncover effective strategies for AI deployment.

Cleveland Python Meetup June 2024
There will be a talk, Wagtail: the Python CMS taking the world by storm.

PyData NYC Meetup June 2024
There will be following talks

RAG: Using Translation Augmented Generation to Break Language Barriers in the LLM Ecosystem
Multi-Modal Machine Learning and Image Visualization/Segmentation

PyData Montreal Meetup June 2024
There will be following talks

Innovations with LLMs at Microsoft HLS Montreal: From Dynamic Data Pruning to Clinical Error Detection
Introduction and Applications of Vision-Language Models

PyData Prague Meetup June 2024
There will be following talks

How Data Improves Your Life in Prague
DuckDB Intro with Case Study from Keboola

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