#606 – DECEMBER 5, 2023
Advent of Code: Solving Puzzles With Python
Advent of Code is an online advent calendar that shares new programming puzzles each day from December 1 to the 25. In this Code Conversation, you’ll learn why solving programming puzzles can be beneficial and how you can get started with Advent of Code using Python.
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Two Kinds of Threads Pools, and Why You Need Both
This article talks about thread pools and how tuning them correctly can make a difference in the performance of your concurrent code.
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Talking to Notebooks With Jupyter AI
Talk Python interviews David Qiu and they discuss LLM integration with Jupyter notebooks.
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Welcoming the Supporting Developer in Residence
PYTHON.ORG
Django 5.0 Released
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Discussions
Ideas: Support Multiple Divisors in divmod()
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Long-Term Vision for a Parallel Programming Model?
PYTHON.ORG
The Realest Python 😂
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Python Jobs
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Software Engineer – Intern (Summer 2024) (Dallas, TX, USA)
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Articles & Tutorials
The Python Rich Package: Unleash the Power of Console Text
Rich is a powerful library for constructing text-based user interfaces (TUIs) using Python. With it, you can make your code more readable by pretty-printing complex data structures, and you can make your app more attractive for your user with colored and formatted text, tables, animations, and more.
REAL PYTHON
Running Python Parallel Applications With Sub Interpreters
Python 3.13 is adding programmatic control over sub-interpreters in Python. They spawn faster than creating a new process, but slower than threads. Learn why and how you can use them in the next release of Python.
ANTHONY SHAW
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Understanding Linux cp and Implementing It in Python
Dive into the workings of the Linux cp command and learn how to replicate it in Python. This post breaks down the command’s process and shows you how the same could be accomplished using only Python.
MUHAMMAD RAZA
Say It Again: Values Not Expressions
Sometimes you can explain a simple thing for the thousandth time, and come away with a deeper understanding yourself. It happened to Ned the other day with Python mutable argument default values.
NED BATCHELDER
Divmod for Unit Conversions
Python’s built-in divmod() provides the quotient and remainder of two numbers. This kind of division occurs frequently when calculating unit conversions. This article shows some examples.
RODRIGO GIRÃO SERRÃO
Examples of Great URL Design
URLs are everywhere, but some sites spend more time thinking about what they mean and how visitors read them. This blog post covers some of Jim’s favorite examples of good URL designs.
JIM NIELSEN
Adding Full Text Search to Django With django-watson
Learn how to supercharge your Django app with full-text search using Django-Watson. Dive deep into Postgres magic and boost search functionality.
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Untyped Python: The Python That Was
This post by Armin is an opinion piece about the changes to Python over the years, particularly typing, and how that relates to other languages.
ARMIN RONACHER
CPython Internals: Understanding the Role of PyObject
Understand how objects are implemented in CPython and how CPython emulates Inheritance and Polymorphism in C using struct embedding.
ABHINAV UPADHYAY
Why You Should Not Overuse List Comprehensions in Python
List comprehensions in Python are super helpful one-liners. But if overused, they can make your code a pain to maintain. Here’s why.
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Projects & Code
Polars-business: Polars Business Date Arithmetic
GITHUB.COM/MARCOGORELLI • Shared by Marco Gorelli
movis: Video Editing as a Code
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filequery: Query CSV, JSON & Parquet With SQL
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tracemem: Memory Tracker for Python Session
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django-web-components: Reusable Template Components
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Events
PyData Global 2023
December 6 to December 9, 2023
PYDATA.ORG
Weekly Real Python Office Hours Q&A (Virtual)
December 6, 2023
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Canberra Python Meetup
December 7, 2023
MEETUP.COM
Sydney Python User Group (SyPy)
December 7, 2023
SYPY.ORG
PyCon Thailand 2023
December 15 to December 17, 2023
PYCON.ORG
FlaskCon 2023
December 16 to December 18, 2023
FLASKCON.COM
Happy Pythoning!
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