Sentiment Analysis, Topological Sort, Web Security, and More

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Exploring Modern Sentiment Analysis Approaches in Python
What are the current approaches for analyzing emotions within a piece of text? Which tools and Python packages should you use for sentiment analysis? This week, Jodie Burchell, developer advocate for data science at JetBrains, returns to the show to discuss modern sentiment analysis in Python.
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Topological Sort
A Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) is a common data structure used to contain a series of related items that must have certain order or dependency. Topological sorting is used to help find where you might start processing to get in order handling of the items in a DAG.
REDOWAN DELOWAR

Essential Python Web Security
This series explores the critical security principles every Python web developer needs. The first post delves into fundamental security best practices, ranging from general principles to specific Python-related techniques.
MICHAEL FORD

Quiz: How to Remove Items From Lists in Python
In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of removing items from lists in Python. This is a fundamental skill in Python programming, and mastering it will enable you to manipulate lists effectively.
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Python 3.14.0 Alpha 3 Is Out
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Programming Sockets in Python
In this in-depth video course, you’ll learn how to build a socket server and client with Python. By the end, you’ll understand how to use the main functions and methods in Python’s socket module to write your own networked client-server applications.
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Python Decorators: A Super Useful Feature
Python decorators are one of Hashim’s favorite features. This post covers some examples he’s used in his projects. It includes the Prometheus Histogram Timing Decorators and OpenTelemetry (OTel) Manual Span Decorators.
HASHIM COLOMBOWALA

A Practical Example of the Pipeline Pattern in Python
“The pipeline design pattern (also known as Chain of Command pattern) is a flexible way to handle a sequence of actions, where each handler in the chain processes the input and passes it to the next handler.”
JUAN JOSÉ EXPÓSITO GONZÁLEZ

Best Shift-Left Testing Tools to Improve Your QA
The later in your development process that you discover the bug the more expensive it is. Shift-Left Testing is a collection of techniques to attempt to move bug discovery earlier in your process.
ANTONELLO ZANINI

Merging Dictionaries in Python
There are multiple ways of merging two or more dictionaries in Python. This post teaches you how to do it and how to deal with corner cases like duplicate keys.
TREY HUNNER

Django Quiz 2024
Adam runs a quiz on Django at his Django London meetup. He’s shared it so you can try it yourself. Test how much you know about your favorite web framework.
ADAM JOHNSON

Top Python Web Development Frameworks in 2025
This post compares many of the different web frameworks available for Python. It covers: Reflex, Django, Flask, Gradio, Streamlit, Dash, and FastAPI.
TOM GOTSMAN

My SQLAlchemy Cookbook
The post contains an embedded JupyterLite notebook containing a cookbook for SQLAlchemy. It focuses on the patterns you use in everyday ORM coding.
JAMIE CHANG

Django: Launch pdb When a Given SQL Query Runs
Here’s a technique for using pdb within Django through hooking specific SQL queries. This uses database instrumentation in the Django ORM.
ADAM JOHNSON

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