#636 – JULY 2, 2024
Build a GUI Calculator With PyQt and Python
In this video course, you’ll learn how to create graphical user interface (GUI) applications with Python and PyQt. Once you’ve covered the basics, you’ll build a fully functional desktop calculator that can respond to user events with concrete actions.
REAL PYTHON course
Satellites Spotting Ships
Umbra Space has released a data set consisting of satellite based radar images of shipping. This article from Mark shows you how to grab the data, visualize, and annotate it.
MARK LITWINTSCHIK
Discover the Power of Observability With Pydantic Logfire
Logfire, by the makers of Pydantic, is an observability platform that will help you understand your app’s behavior with less code and time. Built on OpenTelemetry, it features user-friendly dashboards, SQL querying, and Python-specific integrations. Get started today →
PYDANTIC sponsor
Modern Good Practices for Python Development
This is a very detailed list of best practices for developing in Python. It includes tools, language features, application design, which libraries to use an more.
STUART ELLIS
PSF Board Candidates for 2024
PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION
Python 3.13.0 Beta 3 Released
CPYTHON DEV BLOG
Django 5.1 Beta 1 Released
DJANGO SOFTWARE FOUNDATION
PyBay 2024 Call for Proposals
PYBAY
Articles & Tutorials
Build a Guitar Synthesizer: Play Musical Tablature in Python
In this tutorial, you’ll build a guitar synthesizer using the Karplus-Strong algorithm in Python. You’ll model vibrating strings, simulate strumming techniques, read musical notation and tablature, and apply audio effects. By the end, you’ll have created a digital guitar that can play any song. This tutorial was also discussed on Real Python Podcast Episode #210.
REAL PYTHON
Python’s Security Model After the xz-utils Backdoor
The backdoor introduced to the xz-utils compression project through social engineering was one of the topics at the Python Language Summit. Participants discussed what can be done to prevent similar social engineering attacks on the Python source.
PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION
Authentication Your Whole Team Will Love
“With PropelAuth, I think I’ve spent about a day – total – on auth over the past year.” PropelAuth is easy to integrate and provides all the tools your team needs to manage your users – dashboards, user insights, impersonation, SSO and more →
PROPELAUTH sponsor
Running Prettier Against Django or Jinja Templates
“Prettier” is a JavaScript based linting tool for templates. For folks not familiar with the world of npm, it can be a bit daunting to get it going. Simon fiddled with it so you don’t have to and posted how he got it working on his system.
SIMON WILLISON
Write Less Code, You Must
An often overlooked aspect of software development is architecture at the module & function level. It is important to write code that is simple and easy to move from one place to another.
DAVIDVUJIC.BLOGSPOT.COM • Shared by David Vujic
Quickstart for Playing With LLMs Locally
This is a simple, quick guide to getting started running LLMs on your local computer. It covers the basics of the powerful libraries Ollama and LangChain for controlling these AI models.
JOSHUA COOK • Shared by Joshua Cook
Under the Hood of Python’s set Data Structure
This tutorial covers hash tables, collision handling, performance optimization and how it relates to the implementation of the set data structure in Python.
ABHINAV UPADHYAY
Ways to Have an Atomic Counter in Django
Keeping a counter across objects in Django means having to be careful about race conditions. This article outlines several approaches to the problem.
GONÇALO VALÉRIO
Saying Thanks to Open Source Maintainers
Brett talks about the different ways you can support the many maintainers of open source projects, and often times just saying “thanks” means a lot.
BRETT CANNON
A Guide to Python’s Weak References
Learn all about weak references in Python: reference counting, garbage collection, and practical uses of the weakref module
MARTIN HEINZ • Shared by Martin Heinz
Creating Great README Files for Your Python Projects
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create, organize, and format high-quality README files for your Python projects.
REAL PYTHON
Get Terminal Size
This quick TIL post from Rodrigo shows you how to get information about the terminal size from the shutil module.
RODRIGO GIRÃO SERRÃO
A Complete Guide to pytest Fixtures
Learn how to use pytest fixtures for writing maintainable and isolated tests.
STANLEY ULILI
Projects & Code
burr: Build Apps That Make Decisions (Chatbots, Agents, etc)
GITHUB.COM/DAGWORKS-INC
Lazy f-strings
GITHUB.COM/POMPONCHIK • Shared by pomponchik
oxo: Security Scanning Orchestrator
GITHUB.COM/OSTORLAB
jax: Composable Transformations of Python+NumPy Programs
GITHUB.COM/GOOGLE
dbt-utils: Utility Functions for DBT Projects
GITHUB.COM/DBT-LABS
Events
Weekly Real Python Office Hours Q&A (Virtual)
July 3, 2024
REALPYTHON.COM
Canberra Python Meetup
July 4, 2024
MEETUP.COM
Sydney Python User Group (SyPy)
July 4, 2024
SYPY.ORG
EuroPython 2024
July 8 to July 15, 2024
EUROPYTHON.EU
SciPy US 2024
July 8 to July 14, 2024
SCIPY.ORG
PyCon Nigeria 2024
July 10 to July 14, 2024
PYCON.ORG
Happy Pythoning!
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