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Building HTTP APIs With Django REST Framework
This course will get you ready to build HTTP APIs with Django REST Framework. The Django REST framework (DRF) is a toolkit built on top of the Django web framework that reduces the amount of code you need to write to create REST interfaces.
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Python: Create Temporary Files and Directories in Unittest
Sometimes, tests need temporary files or directories. You can do this in Python’s unittest with the standard library tempfile module. This post looks at some recipes to do so within individual tests and setUp().
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The Inner Workings of Python Dataclasses Explained
Discover how Python dataclasses work internally! Learn how to use __annotations__ and exec() to make our own dataclass decorator!
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Database Optimization Isn’t Always Obvious
“One of the issues of working with abstractions is that what you think may be logically true, isn’t.” Ken came across an article recently with advice specific to a Django ORM call, but the ORM is itself an abstraction over SQL, an abstraction. Global statements on performance are tricky.
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Revisit your favorite Real Python tutorials and courses from 2024. You can explore various topics, from mastering Python basics to creating innovative projects and optimizing your workflow. It’s been an exciting year of learning, and there’s something for everyone to build upon in 2025.
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DuckDB and Python: Ducks and Snakes Living Together
Talk Python to Me interviews Alex Monahan who works on documentation, tutorials, and training at DuckDB Labs. They discuss the surge in popularity of DuckDB amongst Python programmers and details of how the database works.
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Cowboy Debugging Python Memory Leaks
The objgraph library allows you to capture a birds-eye view of your memory usage. In production it can be combined with a signal to report out. This article teaches you how to use it to help find leaks.
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Concurrency: Threads, Processes, and asyncio Explained
A practical guide to Python concurrency using a Fibonacci server to demonstrate the strengths and limitations of threads, processes, and asyncio. Learn when to use each approach through hands-on examples
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Effective Python Developer Tooling in December 2024
This post talks about how tooling doesn’t solve all your problems when you code, especially with a team. It outlines some principles to implement, and bad practices to avoid when writing Python.
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Getting Started Contributing to Django
The contributor guide for Django is a hefty beast, but if you think you might want to write help fix bugs or submit a feature, this post has some pointers on how to get started.
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Better Python Developer Productivity With RDD
REPL Driven Development is an interactive development experience with fast feedback loops. David writes up how his use of IPython has made a difference when he codes.
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Mistakes Engineers Make in Large Established Codebases
This is a “lessons learned” article from someone who has spent a lot of time in multi-million lines-of-code environments.
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Python PEPs Graph
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State of the Art Python in 2024
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Project Quarantine
In the ongoing battle to protect us from malicious packages, the folks at PyPI have added a new feature with the ability to quarantine a package. This post from PyPI’s security engineer talks about how this works.
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