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Welcome to issue 546 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

StarJacking - Making Your New Open Source Package Popular in a Snap
Checkmarx supply chain security has recently found a malicious PyPi package with more than 70,000 downloads using a technique we dubbed StarJacking - a way to make an open source package instantly look popular by abusing the lack of validation between the package to its GitHub repository

KFold Cross Validation in Python Tutorial

In this video Rob Mulla discusses the essential skill that every machine learning practictioner needs to know - cross validation. Without cross validation it's easy to overfit your model and overstate it's predictive power. This video is a must watch for anyone trying to learn machine learning.

Threading in Python: The Complete Guide
This guide provides a detailed and comprehensive review of threading in Python, including how threads work, how to use threads in multithreaded programming, concurrency primitives used with threads, common questions, and best practices.

Building a Panel Dashboard with Snowpark for Python
Data scientists often use SQL to interact with a data warehouse, but then often rely on Python for data discovery, visualization, and modeling. How great would it be if we can interact with a data warehouse directly with our preferred tools in Python? This article shows you how to create Panel dashboard to meaningfully visualize the 5 million data points from a Snowflake dataset.

Python Game Development Project Using OOP – Minesweeper Tutorial

In this course, you will improve your Python skills by coding a Minesweeper game using the tkinter library. The game is fully implemented using Object Oriented Programming.

Generic Functionality without Generic Relations
When you have some generic functionality like anything commentable, likable, or upvotable, it’s common to use Generic Relations in Django. The problem with Generic Relations is that they create the relationships at the application level instead of the database level, and that requires a lot of database queries if you want to aggregate content that shares the generic functionality. There is another way that I will show you in this article.

How to Structure a Data Science Project for Readability and Transparency
And How to Create One in One Line of Code.

Managing Data for Machine Learning Project
In this post, we explore different formats and libraries that you can use to store and retrieve your data in Python.

Improving Code Reviews with Github’s Copilot

How does GitHub Copilot and Codespaces help data scientists to write, understand, and review code?

Python Bi-Dictionary — Key Can Be Value, And Value Can Be Key
A bi-directional dictionary in Python, perfect patch to Python data structure.

Snake in the powershell / terminal [with python]

A video about creating the snake game in the windows powershell or the mac and linux terminal with python.

Packaging PyQt6 applications for Windows with PyInstaller & InstallForge
Turn your PyQt6 application into a distributable installer for Windows.

Singleton is a bad idea

Django Day 2022 Videos

Generate Python extensions using Nim language

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

memray
Memray is a memory profiler for Python. It can track memory allocations in Python code, in native extension modules, and in the Python interpreter itself. It can generate several different types of reports to help you analyze the captured memory usage data.

Exceptionite
A Python exception library designed to make handling and displaying exceptions a cinch.

reFlutter
Flutter Reverse Engineering Framework.

Gupshup
A TUI chat client writtten in Python.

mdiff
mdiff is a package, tool and application for comparing and generating diff info for input data. It has an ability to detect sequence elements displacements (i.e. line in text have been moved up or down).

Moriarty-Project
Moriarty tries to find important information about a spesific phone number.

QTWin11
QT Theme for Win32 apps on Windows 11.

cookiecutter-poetry
A cookiecutter template for poetry managed python projects.

docTR
docTR (Document Text Recognition) - a seamless, high-performing & accessible library for OCR-related tasks powered by Deep Learning.

New Releases

Django security releases issued: 4.0.4, 3.2.13, and 2.2.28

Upcoming Events and Webinars

Virtual: PyLadies London Meetup April 2022
There will be a talk, Crowd-kit - a scikit-learn for crowdsourced annotations.

Virtual: San Diego Python Meetup April 2022
There will be following talks

Speeding up Sci-kit Learn
Django rest with ML
San Diego wildfire risk models

Virtual: PyData Sydney Meetup April 2022
There will be a talk, Clustering On Unstructured Data.

Virtual: PyData Chicago Meetup April 2022
There will be a talk, The Euler characteristic: A general topological descriptor for complex data.

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