CLIs, Cython, 3.11's Better Error Messages, and More

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How to Write User-Friendly CLIs in Python
How to write user-friendly Command Line Interface applications and an overview of several of the popular CLI libraries: argparse, Click, Typer, Docopt, and Fire.
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Just Enough Cython to Be Useful
Cython is a superset of of Python designed to give C-like performance. Ever wanted to learn the basics? This article shows you how to get started.
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Python 3.11 Preview: Even Better Error Messages
Python 3.11 will be released in October 2022. This article explores the more precise error messages now available in the latest alpha release.
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Python 3.11.0a6 Is Available
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Python Built-in Functions to Know
Python has dozens of built-in functions, the standard library has hundreds more, and then third-party libraries make the whole list unknowable. How do you know what to learn early on? This article highlights the important functions every developer should know.
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Modify Iterables While Iterating in Python
If you try to mutate a sequence while traversing through it, Python doesn’t complain, but that doesn’t mean it did what you want. This article explores the problems of modifying iterables and how to work around it.
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Python RCE Vulnerability Discovered in Celery

Learn about the object traversal pattern common in the wider Python ecosystem, and how this led to the discovery of a stored command injection vulnerability in Celery. This step-by-step analysis also includes remediation guidance →
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What Are pyc Files and __pycache__ Folders in Python?
What are those weird extra files for and what do you do about them? This article explains pyc files, where they live, and how to ignore them in your development environment, and how to clean up after them.
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Exploring the Fibonacci Sequence With Python
In this video course, you’ll explore the Fibonacci sequence in Python, which serves as an invaluable springboard into the world of recursion, and learn how to optimize recursive algorithms in the process.
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Understand Django: Security and Django
You want to protect your users’ privacy, right? The goal is noble and users demand it, but how do you do it? This article, looks at some areas that improve the security of your application.
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How to Design Better REST APIs
15 language-agnostic, tips on REST API design, including: good naming conventions, how to specify dates, versioned APIs, authentication keys, pagination, and when to use which HTTP methods.
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Pass-by-Value, Reference, and Assignment
Different programming languages use different ways of passing arguments. By value? By reference? What does Python do? Pass-by-assignment.
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Counting With Python’s Counter
Counting several repeated objects at once is a common problem in programming. Python offers a bunch of tools and techniques you can use to approach this problem. However, Python’s collections.Counter class provides a clean, efficient, and Pythonic solution.
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