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Python ransomware script targets ESXi server for encryption
Configuration errors rapidly escalated to a ransomware attack inside a virtual machine hypervisor.

FlaskCon 2021 Call for Proposals is Open
Submit your talk proposal by October 24, 2021.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

What’s New In Python 3.10
This article explains the new features in Python 3.10, compared to 3.9.

Software at Scale 34 - Faster Python with Guido van Rossum

A discussion about Guido’s new work on making CPython faster (PEP 659), Tiers of Python Interpreter Execution, and high impact, low hanging fruit performance improvements.

Mastering Structural Pattern Matching
Learn how to use Python 3.10’s new Structural Pattern Matching feature, and why Python would suddenly adopt a complex feature usually reserved for functional programming languages.

A new AI constraint solver for Python: OptaPy
Python developers can now solve AI planning problems (such as the vehicle routing problem and employee rostering) with OptaPy. This post shows you how to use OptaPy and a bit of plain Python code to tackle a typical mathematical optimization problem: generate a better school timetable schedule for teachers and students.

AI as an API - Part 1

Learn how to turn a ML Trained Model into an REST API using Keras, FastAPI & NoSQL.

End-to-end tinyML audio classification with the Raspberry Pi RP2040
In this article, we will demonstrate how an Arm Cortex-M based microcontroller can be used for local on-device ML to detect audio events from its surrounding environment. This is a tutorial-style article, and we’ll guide you through training a TensorFlow based audio classification model to detect a fire alarm sound.

Why you can’t switch to Python 3.10 just yet
Python 3.10 is out now — when should you start using it?

PostgreSQL vs Python for data evaluation: what, why, and how
Get a primer on using PostgreSQL to more efficiently perform your data evaluation tasks - done in Excel, R, or Python. Complete with short SQL refresher section, along with 1-to-1 code snippets comparing TimescaleDB and PostgreSQL code against Python code.

Putting Pants On
One Thing We Did Right After 5 Years with Django.

TensorFlow for Computer Vision - Full Tutorial for Beginners

Learn how to use TensorFlow 2 for computer vision in this complete course. The course shows you how to create two computer vision projects. The first involves an image classification model with a prepared dataset. The second is a more real-world problem where you will have to clean and prepare a dataset before using it.

How SQL Injection attack works
A funny story where the author found a SQL Injection vulnerability in an IBM service, also how it works, how to explore it using Python and Flask.

Nowcasting the Next Hour of Rain
DeepMind's latest research and state-of-the-art model advances the science of Precipitation Nowcasting. You can also explore the data they used for training and find a pre-trained model for the UK via GitHub.

Looking at notebooks from a new perspective
How to better communicate with Jupyter notebooks.

Accept Credit Card Payments in Flask with Stripe Checkout
This article shows you how to implement an order page for your Flask application that you can use to sell products or services online. The solution presented to you uses Stripe Checkout, a secure and easy to use credit card charging service that integrates nicely with Flask.

How Dialpad Moved Its Python AI Development from Pip to Poetry
Learn how DialPad switched from Python's pip to Poetry for next generation package management.

Create a Stunning PDF Flyer in Python with borb
In this guide, we'll create a beautiful stylized PDF flyer using nothing but Python and borb - a pure-Python library for working with PDF documents.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Opta
Infrastructure-as-code where you work with high-level constructs instead of getting lost in low level cloud configuration.

DesktopAssistant
A Virtual Desktop Assistant Written in Python.

Runtype
Utilities for run-time type validation and multiple dispatch.

lazy-table
A python-tabulate wrapper for producing tables from generators.

QuantStats
Portfolio analytics for quants, written in Python.

OpenPrompt
An Open-Source Framework for Prompt-learning.

dronesploit
Drone pentesting framework console.

optapy
OptaPy is an AI constraint solver for Python to optimize planning and scheduling problems.

litemark
Lightweight Markdown dialect for Python desktop apps.

New Releases

Python 3.10.0
Python 3.10.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations.

Streamlit 1.0
Streamlit used to be the simplest way to write data apps. Now it's the most powerful.

Django bugfix release: 3.2.8

Upcoming Events and Webinars

Virtual: PyMNtos Python Presentation Night #97
There will be following talks

Packaging and Publishing Python Libraries
First Django App: Request for Feedback

Python Frederick Meetup October 2021 - Frederick, MD
There will be a talk, Intro To Pandas For Data Analysis.

Virtual: IndyPy Meetup October 2021
There will be a talk, Automating Spreadsheets with Python, OpenPyXL and Pandas.

Virtual: PyData PDX Meetup October 2021
There will be following lightning talks

Top 5 Things I Love About Seaborn
Top 5 Reasons to Use FN Graph in Your Workflow
Top 5 Things You Use Python For When You Should Be Using R
Top 5 Dev Tools You May Not Have Heard Of
Top 5 Things I Wish Data Science Candidates Would Ask During Interviews

Virtual: PyData Sydney October 2021
There will be a talk, Self Organising Maps for Travelling Salesman Problem.

Virtual: Austin Python Meetup October 2021
There will be a talk, Using Python and a TypeDB knowledge graph to understand virus biology.

Virtual: Cleveland Python Meetup October 2021

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