Issue #573 (April 18, 2023)

#573 – APRIL 18, 2023

“Self-Healing” Programs That Fix Themselves Thanks to AI

Wolverine is a Python tool that responds to script crashes by using ChatGPT to look for solutions. This brief article describes the process and links to a video demo. With the corresponding Slashdot Discussion.
BENJ EDWARDS

Pandas 2.0 vs Pandas 1: Performance Comparison

Pandas 2.0 was recently released with the new pyarrow backend. In the article, we did a quick performance comparison between the new pyarrow backend in 2.0 with the standard in Pandas 1. The results were expected, a big speedup in terms of String processing and null value handling, but slower with numeric processing and aggregations.
SANTIAGO BASULTO • Shared by Santiago Basulto

Build AI-powered Internal Tools 10x Faster with Python & Superblocks

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Automate Processes and Distribute Tools With RPA and RCC

Are you exploring automation of your repetitive business tasks with Python? How are you going to share your helpful tools with co-workers? This week on the show, Sampo Ahokas from Robocorp is here to discuss robotic process automation (RPA) and distribution of these robots.
REAL PYTHON podcast

PEP 695 “Type Parameter Syntax” Accepted

PYTHON.ORG

EU’s Proposed CRA Consequences for Python Ecosystem

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Discussions

Pip 23.1 Released: Massive Improvement to Backtracking

What Lesser-Known Computer Accessories Do You Use?

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Python Jobs

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Articles & Tutorials

Manipulating ZIP Files With Python

In this video course, you’ll learn how to manipulate ZIP files using Python’s zipfile module from the standard library. Through hands-on examples, you’ll learn how to read, write, compress, and extract files from your ZIP files quickly.
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Executing Python Scripts With a Shebang

In this tutorial, you’ll learn when and how to use the shebang line in your Python scripts to execute them from a Unix-like shell. Along the way, you’ll run custom scripts written in your domain-specific language interpreted by Python.
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Build Developer-First Automations with Retool Workflows

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Top 10 Django Third-Party Packages

Will covers a list of his favorite third-party packages for Django. Includes old favorites like Django REST Framework, and lesser known packages like django-filter and django-environ.
WILL VINCENT

PEP 711: Standard Format for Distributing Python Binaries

This PEP proposes a way of packaging pre-build interpreters “like wheels, but for python interpreters”. The intent is to re-use existing packaging standards as much as possible.
PYTHON.ORG

Descriptive Statistics in JavaScript, Python, SQL, R, and Excel

A series of comparisons on how to do common statistical methods in JavaScript, Python, SQL, R, and Excel. Includes mean, median, standard deviation, rank values, and more.
HORST & BUFFA

BabyAGI User Guide With LangChain

This notebook demonstrates how to implement BabyAGI by Yohei Nakajima. BabyAGI is an AI agent that can generate and pretend to execute tasks based on a given objective.
HARRISON CHASE

Who Runs Engineering Processes?

Who should be in charge of engineering in your organization? The short answer: it depends. The long answer: it really depends. Read on for an even longer answer.
WILL LARSON

Language Popularity by GitHub Pull Requests

Daniel did an analysis on GitHub pull requests and ranked them by language. Together Python and JavaScript make up nearly 40% of all activity on GitHub.
DANIEL LEMIRE

What You Give Up When Moving Into Management

“Moving into a management role may be a rewarding step in your career, but you should know about the things you’re leaving behind.”
KARL HUGHES

Unravelling `global`

Dive deep into global, how it works, its relationship with builtins and the namespace differences in Python.
BRETT CANNON

Projects & Code

joblib: Lightweight Pipelining With Python Functions

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Auto-GPT: Experiment to Make GPT-4 Fully Autonomous

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pyllms: Wrapper for Connecting to Multiple LLMs

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aura: Large Scale Python Code Auditing and Static Analysis

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PyDPainter: Pixel Art Paint Program in Python

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PyCon DE & PyData Berlin 2023

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PyCon US 2023

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NZPUG-Auckland: Python on Fire? Dash to the River

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