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Welcome to issue 536 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

News

Google releases differential privacy pipeline for Python
PipelineDP allows datasets containing personal information to be aggregated in a way that preserves the privacy of individuals.

Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

10 Unknown Security Pitfalls for Python
In this blog post, we share 10 security pitfalls for Python developers that we encountered in real-world projects.

Creating Beautiful Tracebacks with Python's Exception Hooks
Debugging can become an enjoyable experience with beautiful traceback messages created with Python’s custom exception hooks.

A Comprehensive Guide to Slicing in Python
Python Slicing is a powerful tool to access sequences. To learn more about the inner mechanics of slices, read this post.

How to stop running out of ephemeral ports and start to love long-lived connections
In this blog post, I'll explain why we had these issues, how we worked around them, and present an userspace code implementing an improved variant of connect() syscall.

Building for Balance
How Instacart Marketplace team developed a unified marketplace balancing engine with machine learning and optimization

Start Analyzing Your Python Projects
SonarQube has over 170 unique rules to find Bugs, Vulnerabilities, Security Hotspots, and Code Smells in your Python code. Get started for free! SPONSOR

How I hacked SONOS and YouTube the same day
Or how to play YouTube videos on your SONOS, easy and for free.

Python and the Legend of Zelda
Using brute force to solve a classic grid-based puzzle.

Is your code too complicated?
Measuring the complexity of your code with two different metrics - Cyclomatic Complexity & Cognitive Complexity.

Scaling SHAP Calculations With PySpark and Pandas UDF
Learn more about how a scalable SHAP values calculation solution using PySpark and Pandas UDFs can help model explainability with improved performance.

Deploying web application to AWS: Django, Django Channels
Deploying your project to AWS can be difficult and frustrating if you are new to deploying a project. Neither is the AWS user interface easy to work with nor is their documentation easy to understand. In this post, I wish not only help you deploy your Django project but also to help you understand AWS better. I will also talk about some of the common errors that I faced during the deployment.

How To Annotate Entities With Spacy PhraseMacher
Learn to write a name matching pipeline using spaCy’s PhraseMatcher that finds and labels organization names and their stock ticker symbols.

Security 101: Securing file downloads

A Gentle Introduction to AWS Lambda

Deep physical neural networks trained with backpropagation

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Poker
Fully functional Pokerbot that works on PartyPoker, PokerStars and GGPoker, scraping tables with Open-CV (adaptable via gui) or neural network and making decisions based on a genetic algorithm and montecarlo simulation for poker equity calculation.

cibuildwheel
Build Python wheels for all the platforms on CI with minimal configuration.

woob
woob is a collection of applications able to interact with websites, without requiring the user to open them in a browser. It also provides well-defined APIs to talk to websites lacking one.

Rich-cli
Rich-cli is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal, built with Rich.

Procrastinate
PostgreSQL-based Task Queue for Python.

PathML
An open-source toolkit for computational pathology and machine learning.

rip_raw
Rip Raw is a small tool to analyze the memory of compromised Linux systems.

ChatView
Generate data visualizations and get meaningful insights of your chat message history.

tstock
A command line tool to view stock charts in the terminal.

Espial
Espial is an engine for automated organization and discovery of personal knowledge.

New Releases

Django security releases issued: 4.0.2, 3.2.12, and 2.2.27

Upcoming Events and Webinars

Virtual: PyMNtos Python Presentation Night #101
There will be the following talks

Creating GUI Applications in Python
Django Project Share: Summer_Fun

Virtual: PyData Sydney February 2022
There will be a talk, Helping Pandas with Pyjanitor.

Virtual: PyData Paris February 2022
There will be a talk, Better Data Governance with Revision Control Workflows.

Virtual: IndyPy Meetup February 2022
There will be a talk, Python Dependency Security; best practices and learnings along the way.

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