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Poison Packages on PyPI, Python Synthesizers, Monoliths to Managed Architecture, and More

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Poison Packages: User Hits Python Community With 4000 Fake Modules
Recently, a PyPI user going by the name “Remind Supply Chain Risks” uploaded nearly 4000 fake modules to the index, many of which were named as common misspellings of popular packages. Learn about the incident in this article, and read all the way to the end for four tips every Python developer should follow.
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Atlas: Our Journey From a Python Monolith to a Managed Platform
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Exciting New Features in Django 3.2
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PEP 621 Is Final
In the near future, you’ll be able to store project metadata in pyproject.toml.
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Python 3.10.0a6 Is Now Available for Testing
Test it out today and take structural pattern matching for a spin!
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Accidentally Quadratic: When Python Is Faster Than C++
Seemingly trivial choices in programming language design can lead to pretty surprising results. If you like time complexity, check out the research paper behind the discussion.
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An Interesting Use of self and reduce()
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Learn how to create oscillators using Python as a foundation for creating your own software synthesizers. This article is one of a three-part series. The other articles cover modulators and controllers.
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How to Remove a Column From a DataFrame, With Some Extra Detail
Learn several ways to remove a column from a pandas DataFrame and take a peek at how column deletion works under the hood.
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Consuming APIs With Python and Building Microservices With gRPC
Have you wanted to get your Python code to consume data from web-based APIs? Maybe you’ve dabbled with the requests package, but you don’t know what steps to take next. This week on the show, David Amos is back, and he’s brought another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects.
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Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life
Could you find an initial state for Conway’s Game of Life that, after a few iterations, displays the Mona Lisa?
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Alternative Syntax for Python’s lambda?
Some discussion crept up this week among core developers about adding an arrow operator for simplifying lambda functions. No plans have been made yet for a PEP, but some developers acknowledged some benefits of the idea.
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Five Django Packages We Love at Monadical
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SemVer Won't Save You, Python Flies on Mars, Automated TPS Reports, and More

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You #462 – MARCH 2, 2021 VIEW IN BROWSER The PyCoder's Weekly Logo Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You Semantic versioning aims to both communicate the version

Python Turns 30, Concurrency is Tricky, You Should Upgrade pip, and More

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Python Concurrency: The Tricky Bits #461 – FEBRUARY 23, 2021 VIEW IN BROWSER The PyCoder's Weekly Logo Python Concurrency: The Tricky Bits An exploration of threads, processes, and coroutines in

match/case, Mutable Python Strings, Cleaning Text With Pandas, and More

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

PEP 634: Structural Pattern Matching (`match`/`case`) #460 – FEBRUARY 16, 2021 VIEW IN BROWSER The PyCoder's Weekly Logo PEP 634: Structural Pattern Matching ( match / case ) A few links related to

Python Integers Deep Dive, Friendly Tracebacks, Property-Based Testing, and More

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

How Python Integers Work #459 – FEBRUARY 9, 2021 VIEW IN BROWSER The PyCoder's Weekly Logo How Python Integers Work Python's integer datatype is pretty different from most other languages

pandas Memory Explosions, Python Performance, a Case Against OOP, and More

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

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