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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

How to Read and Remove Metadata from Your Photos With Python
Smartphones include EXIF metadata in their photos. Here’s how to read, write, and erase it using Python.

Constructing a sponge function from MD5
This article will start from the simple concept of an MD5 hash, and incrementally build on it until we implement a lot of common functionality that seems like black boxes. Every step should be small enough to be digested individually, while still contributing to the overall understanding of the topic.

Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code
In this post, we are going to explore the basic components of a full-text search engine, and use them to build one that can search across millions of documents and rank them according to their relevance in milliseconds, in less than 150 lines of Python code!

Writing Makefiles for Python Projects
Exploring two different strategies for using Makefiles in Python projects.

Async SQLAlchemy with FastAPI
In this post I will use the new async capabilities of the ORM layer, together with the new 2.0 style queries. We will create a simple FastAPI application with two routes. One for adding cities and their population, and another that will list the most populated entries.

How I built API for iOS Feeds in 10 minutes
Just a short look at what is possible with Django Rest Framework.

All The Important Features and Changes in Python 3.10
The release of Python 3.10 is getting closer, so it’s time to take a look at most important new features and changes it’s going to bring

GeoGuessing with Deep Learning
Applying photo geolocation estimation to the game of GeoGuessr.

How we built our Python Client that's mostly Rust
Learn how to wrap your Rust crate in Python.

Web Scraping with Python Using Beautiful Soup
Learn web scraping with Python and Beautiful Soup in this free tutorial that'll walk you through the basics of how to scrape a webpage.

Jupyter: Thinking and Storytelling With Code and Data
Even though Jupyter helps users perform complex, technical work, Jupyter itself solves problems that are fundamentally human in nature. Namely, Jupyter helps humans to think and tell stories with code and data. We illustrate this by describing three dimensions of Jupyter: 1) interactive computing; 2) computational narratives; and 3) the idea that Jupyter is more than software. We illustrate the impact of these dimensions on a community of practice in earth and climate science.

Build a Discord Bot that trades stocks with Alpaca

Build a dockerized Django app on Google Cloud Run with CI/CD

Building GraphQL APIs in Django with Graphene

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

OSCI
Open Source Contributor Index(OSCI) is where commercial organizations are ranked by the volume of their employees’ year-to-date open source contributions on GitHub.

Input
Input is a typeface for code, designed by David Jonathan Ross and released by Font Bureau.

watchpoints
watchpoints is an easy-to-use, intuitive variable/object monitor tool for python that behaves similar to watchpoints in gdb.

CuFlow
CuFlow ("Copper Flow") is an experimental procedural PCB layout program. It's a Python module that, given a description of a board, generates all the outputs for a PCB:

dop
DOP is designed to simplify the orchestration effort across many connected components using a configuration file without the need to write any code.

pText
pText is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.

opentelemetry-python
OpenTelemetry Python API and SDK. OpenTelemetry is an observability framework for cloud-native software.

kubestriker
A Blazing fast Security Auditing tool for Kubernetes.

Flenser
Flenser is a simple, minimal, automated exploratory data analysis tool.

HPy
A better API for Python.

graspologic
Python package for graph statistics.

anybadge
A Python project for generating badges for your projects, with a focus on simplicity and flexibility.

MultiPy
MultiPy lets you conveniently keep a track of your python scripts for personal use or showcase by loading and grouping them into categories. It allows you to either run each script individually or together with just one click.

vigilio
Your own movie streaming service. Easy to install, easy to use. Download, manage and watch your favorite movies conveniently from your browser or phone. Install it on your server, access it anywhere and enjoy.

lbry-sdk
The LBRY SDK for building decentralized, censorship resistant, monetized, digital content apps.

New Releases

Jupyter in Visual Studio Code – April 2021 Release
This release of the Jupyter Extension includes an overhaul and new functionality of the Data Viewer, as well as some UI enhancements and multiselect support for Native Notebooks.

Matplotlib 3.4.0

Upcoming Events and Webinars

Virtual: PyLadies Berlin April 2021
There will be following talks

Scaling Data Science with Dask
Building your first performance monitor

Virtual: PyData Tel Aviv April 2021
There will be following talks

Reprogramming immunity with AI and single-cell multi-omics
Quantifying the effect of experimental perturbations at single-cell resolution
Deep generative modeling for single-cell transcriptomics

Virtual: PyData Edinburgh April 2021
There will be a talk, What can data scientists learn from data-driven responses to Covid-19?

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