#631 – MAY 28, 2024
Building a Python GUI Application With Tkinter
In this video course, you’ll learn the basics of GUI programming with Tkinter, the de facto Python GUI framework. Master GUI programming concepts such as widgets, geometry managers, and event handlers. Then, put it all together by building two applications: a temperature converter and a text editor.
REAL PYTHON course
pyastgrep
and Custom Linting
This article from the developer of pyastgrep
introduces you to the tool which can now be used as a library. The post talks about how to use it and what kind of linting it does best.
LUKE PLANT
Upgrade Python Versions Without the Pain
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ACTIVESTATE sponsor
What’s New in Django 5.1
Django 5.1 has gone alpha so the list of features targeting this release has more or less solidified. This article introduces you to what is coming in Django 5.1.
JEFF TRIPLETT
Quiz: How to Create Pivot Tables With Pandas
This quiz is designed to push your knowledge of pivot tables a little bit further. You won’t find all the answers by reading the tutorial, so you’ll need to do some investigating on your own. By finding all the answers, you’re sure to learn some other interesting things along the way.
REAL PYTHON
PEP 649 Re-targeted to 3.14
Python Enhancement Proposal 649: Deferred Evaluation Of Annotations Using Descriptors has been re-targeted to the Python 3.14 release
PYTHON.ORG
JupyterLab 4.2 and Notebook 7.2 Released
JUPYTER
Articles & Tutorials
Testing With Python: The Different Types of Tests
This is part 5 of a deep dive into writing automated tests, but also works well as an independent article. This post talks about the taxonomy of testing, like the differences between unit and integration tests, and how nobody can quite agree on a definition of either.
BITECODE
Python’s Built-in Exceptions: A Walkthrough With Examples
In this tutorial, you’ll get to know some of the most commonly used built-in exceptions in Python. You’ll learn when these exceptions can appear in your code and how to handle them. Finally, you’ll learn how to raise some of these exceptions in your code.
REAL PYTHON
Software Engineering Hiring and Firing
This article is a deep dive on the hiring and firing practices in the software field, and unlike most articles focuses on senior engineering roles. It isn’t a “first job” post, but a “how the decision process works” article.
ED CREWE
Enabling Async MongoDB Operations in Streamlit
Streamlit is a wonderful tool for building dashboards with its peculiar execution model, but using asyncio data sources with it can be a real pain. This article is about how you correctly use those two technologies together.
HANDMADESOFTWARE • Shared by Thorin Schiffer
EuroPython 2024 Announces Keynote Speakers
EuroPython happens in Prague July 8-14 and as the conference approaches more and more is happening. This posting from their May newsletter highlights the keynotes and other announcements.
EUROPYTHON
Writing Commit Messages
This guide admits to being “yet another”, but unlike most that are out there, spends less time discussing the cosmetic aspects of a good commit message and more time on the content.
SIMON TATHAM
PSF Announces 5-Year Sponsorship Commitment From Fastly
Python Software Foundation securing this sponsorship affects the entire Python ecosystem, most notably the security and reliability of the Python Package Index (PyPI).
SOCKET.DEV • Shared by Sarah Gooding
Untold Stories From 6 Years Working on Python Packaging
Sumana gave the closing keynote address at PyCon US this year and this posting shares all the links and references from the talk.
SUMANA HARIHARESWARA
The Python calendar
Module: Create Calendars With Python
Learn to use the Python calendar module to create and customize calendars in plain text, HTML or directly in your terminal.
REAL PYTHON
TIL: Accessibility Resources #2
This post is a collection of accessibility resources mostly for web sites, but some tools can be used elsewhere as well.
SARAH ABDEREMANE
Projects & Code
PgQueuer: Python & PostgreSQL Job Queuing Library
GITHUB.COM/JANBJORGE
Tapyr: Shiny for Python Application Template
GITHUB.COM/APPSILON • Shared by Appsilon
Oven: Explore Python Packages
FMING.DEV
tkforge: Drag & Drop in Figma to Create a Python GUI
GITHUB.COM/AXORAX
tach: Enforce a Modular, Decoupled Package Architecture
GITHUB.COM/NEVER-OVER
Events
Weekly Real Python Office Hours Q&A (Virtual)
May 29, 2024
REALPYTHON.COM
SPb Python Drinkup
May 30, 2024
MEETUP.COM
Building Python Communities Yaounde
June 1 to June 3, 2024
NOKIDBEHIND.ORG
Django Girls Medellín
June 1 to June 2, 2024
DJANGOGIRLS.ORG
PyDelhi User Group Meetup
June 1, 2024
MEETUP.COM
Melbourne Python Users Group, Australia
June 3, 2024
J.MP
DjangoCon Europe 2024
June 5 to June 10, 2024
DJANGOCON.EU
PyCon Colombia 2024
June 7 to June 10, 2024
PYCON.CO
Happy Pythoning!
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