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News

Python just took a big jump forward
Python overtakes Java and C for the first time in 20 years of a key language popularity index.

PyCascades 2022 Call for Proposals
Are you thinking of speaking at PyCascades? Submit your proposal by October 24th, 2021.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

How to Protect an API in FastAPI with Auth0

Learn how to leverage the FastAPI dependency injection system to integrate your API with Auth0 and protect your endpoints. You'll see how that affects your API documentation and how you can use code we provided to verify your Auth0 access token.

Understanding all of Python, through its builtins
Python has a whole lot of builtins that are unknown to most people. This guide aims to introduce you to everything that Python has to offer, through its seemingly obscure builtins.

Clustering with Scikit-Learn in Python
This tutorial demonstrates how to apply clustering algorithms with Python to a dataset with two concrete use cases. The first example uses clustering to identify meaningful groups of Greco-Roman authors based on their publications and their reception. The second use case applies clustering algorithms to textual data in order to discover thematic groups. After finishing this tutorial, you will be able to use clustering in Python with Scikit-learn applied to your own data, adding an invaluable method to your toolbox for exploratory data analysis.

What's great about Python 3.10?
What changed in Python 3.10 and which of those changes matter for you?

Object Oriented Programming with Python - Full Course for Beginners

Object Oriented Programming is an important concept in software development. In this complete tutorial, you will learn all about OOP and how to implement it using Python.

SQLAlchemy 1.4 async ORM with FastAPI
This tutorial will present how to set up a production-ready application running on FastAPI, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy 1.4, and alembic. Everything using asyncio.

Finding and reporting an asyncio bug in Python 3.10
I found a bug in Python 3.10. Some notes on how I found it and my process for handling it once I figured out what was going on.

Tips for debugging with print()
If you’re embarrassed at debugging with print(), please don’t be - it’s perfectly fine! Many bugs are easily tackled with just a few checks in the right places. Here are five tips to get the most out of debugging with print().

How to Fit Models to Data in Python

This video shows how to use the curvefit function in the scipy.optimize library. It also looks at practical examples from physics.

Internet of Things for libraries
This post is an introduction to the Internet of Things (IoT), and will cover the technical aspects of working with digital-sensors and how they could be used in a library setting.

Configuration is an API, not an SDK
Some guidelines for config management in general and for Python apps in particular.

Streamline your Docker builds with Pants
Pants makes it easy and efficient to incrementally build and deploy multiple Docker images from a single repo, with a single command. Each image can consist of a shared base image plus a single PEX (Python EXecutable) file containing all the code, resources and dependencies required by the entry point. Pants knows exactly which images need to be rebuilt and redeployed given a set of Git changes.

Attempting REPL-Driven Development in Python

EuroPython 2021 Videos

Array Libraries Interoperability

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

ConsoleDraw
A Python module to update the console without flashing.

codex-readme
Generating READMEs Using AI in Python.

bor
User-friendly, tiny source code searcher written in pure Python.

Pithus
Pithus is a free and open-source platform to analyze Android applications for activists, journalists, NGOs, researchers...

UpliftML
A Python Package for Scalable Uplift Modeling.

quickemu
Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.

PortaSpeech
PyTorch Implementation of PortaSpeech: Portable and High-Quality Generative Text-to-Speech.

Certipy
Python implementation for Active Directory certificate abuse.

Ruck
Performant evolutionary algorithms for Python.

Poly
A generic text conversion/processing tool.

New Releases

Psycopg 3.0 released
Psycopg 3 is a complete rewrite based on the experience accumulated with the development and maintenance of psycopg2. Psycopg 3 targets all the current versions of Python (3.6-3.10) and PostgreSQL (10-14) and allows the use of modern Python development techniques, such as async and statically typed code.

Python in Visual Studio Code – October 2021 Release
In this release we closed a total of 88 issues, and it includes:

Debugging support for Jupyter Notebooks
A new Python walkthrough
Improvements to the debugging experience for Python files and projects

Python 3.11.0a1 is available

Upcoming Events and Webinars

Virtual: DjangoCon US 2021
DjangoCon US 2021 is a completely free online event October 22-23, 2021 Online.

Virtual: DragonPy Meetup October 2021
There will be following talks

Python for financial data
Project isolation beyond requirements.txt
Pandera - statistical data validation for Pandas
Python documentation generation

Virtual: PyBerlin 32
There will be following talks

Full-Stack Web, Entirely in Python: How Anvil Works
Python 3.10: Welcome to pattern matching

Virtual: PyLadies Dublin & Paris Python Talks
There will be following talks

Research Survivor
Unraveling the mysteries of the universe with Python

Virtual: PyLadies London October 2021
There will be a talk, Start Your Quantum Journey with Python and Q#

Virtual: PyLadies Hamburg October 2021
There will be a talk, Build Your Own Audio Processing Package Using Poetry.

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