Issue #574 (April 25, 2023)

#574 – APRIL 25, 2023

PyPI Introduces “Trusted Publishers”

PyPI package maintainers can adopt a new, more secure “OIDC authenticated” publishing method that does not require long-lived passwords or API tokens to be shared with external systems.
PYPI.ORG

What’s a Python Namespace Package, and What’s It For?

In this tutorial, you’ll be exploring Python namespace packages: what they are, what they’re for, and how you can use them in your package systems. Along the way, you’ll create your own set of namespace packages and explore how you might be able to use them in your own projects.
REAL PYTHON

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Building a ChatGPT-enhanced Python REPL

This blog shows how Logan built a Python REPL augmented with ChatGPT. It details the application itself as well as speculating on software engineering patterns that might emerge in systems built on Large Language Models (LLMs).
LOGAN MORTIMER

Python 3.10 Runtime Now Available in AWS Lambda

AMAZON.COM

Discussions

PEP 707: A Simplified Signature for `exit` and `aexit`

PYTHON.ORG

Ideas: Allow Comprehension Syntax in `for` Loop

PYTHON.ORG

Python Jobs

Software Engineer – Backend/Python (100% Remote) (Anywhere)

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Articles & Tutorials

Dependency Injection in Python

“Dependency Injection (DI) is a design pattern that encourages loose coupling, maintainability, and testability within software applications.” Though more often associated with statically typed languages, the pattern can be applied with Python.
PATRICK KALKMAN

Improve Your Code With Pre-Commit

This article covers a variety of tools you can attach to your repo’s pre-commit hook to validate your code. Although the article is from a Django perspective, all but one of the tools covered is Django-agnostic.
RASUL KIREEV

Polish your Python Code with Pylint

Discover the — often overlooked — value of linting in Snyk’s guide to improving code quality with Pylint →
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Limiting Concurrency in Python `asyncio`

This article shows you how to do rate limiting when dealing with repeated tasks within asyncio. It uses a thread pool and imap_unordered() to show you why the answer may not always be to use a Semaphore.
LEMON24

Summing Values the Pythonic Way With sum()

In this video course, you’ll learn how to use Python’s sum() function to add numeric values together. You’ll also learn how to concatenate sequences, such as lists and tuples, using sum().
REAL PYTHON course

Google’s Assured OSS Python Packages

Google publishes a list of the Open Source packages it uses and secures within its own software supply chain. The list is made public so you can take advantage of their assessment.
GOOGLE.COM

The Fastest Way to Read a CSV File in Pandas 2.0

The fastest way to read a CSV file into a Pandas DataFrame isn’t pd.read_csv(). This article shows you the alternative and how the result was bench-marked.
FINN ANDERSEN

Building Reproducible Python Environments With XARs

XAR is an archiving format that can contain a tree of files. This article details how they can be used to package Python environments for deploy-ability.
PAVEL SENCHANKA

Django Performance Optimization Tips

This article looks at where potential performance issues can occur in a Django application and how to address them in order to speed up your app.
MICHAEL HERMAN • Shared by Michael Herman

Python Packages: A Primer for Data People

This article introduces you to the concept of Python modules and packages. How and where you use them and why you should.
ELLIOT GUNN

Projects & Code

Mouse Scroll Wheel Acceleration in User Space

GITHUB.COM/ALBERTZ

faiss: Similarity Search & Clustering of Dense Vectors

GITHUB.COM/FACEBOOKRESEARCH

trrex: Efficient String Matching With Regular Expressions

GITHUB.COM/MESEJO • Shared by Daniel Mesejo

pypi-diff: PyPI Package History Tracking

GITHUB.COM/ABBBI

nanobind: Tiny and Efficient C++/Python Bindings

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Events

PyCon US 2023

April 19 to April 28, 2023
PYCON.ORG

PyKla Monthly Meetup

April 26, 2023
MEETUP.COM

Weekly Real Python Office Hours Q&A (Virtual)

April 26, 2023
REALPYTHON.COM

PyStaDa

April 26, 2023
PYSTADA.GITHUB.IO

Python Adelaide Meetup

April 27, 2023
MEETUP.COM

SPb Python Drinkup