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PySheets, REPL Shortcuts, Empty Tests, and More

#654 – NOVEMBER 5, 2024 VIEW IN BROWSER
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PySheets: Spreadsheets in the Browser Using PyScript
What goes into building a spreadsheet application in Python that runs in the browser? How do you make it launch quickly, and where do you store the cells of data? This week on the show, we speak with Chris Laffra about his project, PySheets, and his book “Communication for Engineers.”
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Adding Keyboard Shortcuts to the Python REPL
Python 3.13 included a new version of the REPL which has the ability to define keyboard shortcuts. This article shows you how to create one and warns you about potential hangups.
TREY HUNNER

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Running a Million Empty Tests
To better understand just where the performance cost of running tests comes from, Anders ran a million empty tests. This post talks about what he did and the final results.
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Pillow Release 11.0.0
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PEP 750: Template Strings (Major Updates)
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PEP 756: Add PyUnicode_Export() and PyUnicode_Import() C Functions (Withdrawn)
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Python 3.8 Reaches End of Life
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Quiz: Single and Double Underscores in Python Names
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Quiz: Getting Started With Async Features in Python
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Best GUI for Local Client App?
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Move to Sigstore Complicates Linux Distros
Currently, CPython signs its artifacts with both PGP and Sigstore. Removing the PGP signature has been proposed, but that has implications: Sigstore is still new enough that many Linux distributions don’t support it yet.
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Python’s Magic Methods in Classes
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Make It Ephemeral: Software Should Decay and Lose Data
In the real world, things decay over time. In the digital world things get kept forever, and sometimes that shouldn’t be so. Designing for deletion is hard.
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Python 3.13, t-Strings, Dep Groups…
Bite code! does their monthly Python news wrap-up. Check out stories on 3.13, proposed template strings, dependency groups in pyproject.toml, and more.
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Identifying Products From Images
This project uses computer vision solution to automate doing inventory of products in retail, using YOLOv8 and image embeddings for precise detection.
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Write More Pythonic Code With Context Managers
Context managers enable you to create “template” code with initialization and clean up to make the code that uses them easier to read and understand.
JUHA-MATTI SANTALA

Django Girls 10th Birthday!
This post celebrating ten years of Django Girls talks about how it got started, what they’re hoping to do, and how you can get involved.
DJANGO GIRLS

pytest Selection Arguments for Failing Tests
This quick TIL post talks about five useful pytest options that let you control what tests to run with respect to failing tests.
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Asyncio gather() Return Values
This post shows you how to return values from coroutines that have been concurrently executed using asyncio.gather().
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PyBay 2024
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