Issue #615 (Feb. 6, 2024)

#615 – FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Rye: A [Python Developer Experience] Vision Continued

Armin, who’s also the creator of Flask, discusses the continued development of Rye, a tool he created to improve the Python packaging and project management experience. Rye aims to be a “one-stop shop” for tasks like downloading Python versions, creating virtual environments, managing dependencies, linting and formatting.
ARMIN RONACHER

Starting Points for Contributing to Open Source With Python

What’s it like to sit down for your first developer sprint at a conference? How do you find an appropriate issue to work on as a new open-source contributor? This week on the show, author and software engineer Stefanie Molin is here to discuss starting to contribute to open-source projects.
REAL PYTHON podcast

Data Science Workflows: Machine Learning Models with Python & Posit Connect

Via an end-to-end example, learn how data science organizations use Posit Connect as a platform for hosting internal machine learning models. This will give you a robust pattern for hosting and sharing models on Connect before you deploy them to a customer-facing system →
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Boring Python: Dependency Management

How to set up dependency management for Python projects in a “boring” way, meaning using standard, well-established tools to minimize surprises. It recommends using pip, virtualenv, and pip-tools to define dependencies, isolate environments, and track the full dependency tree.
JAMES BENNETT

Django Admin and Service Layer

If you need to perform operations on multiple Django objects, you might create service layer functions. The problem with this is the Django Admin is linked to the objects themselves. This post covers how to add custom calls to the Admin to invoke service layer functions.
ROMAN IMANKULOV

Python’s Format Mini-Language for Tidy Strings

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about Python’s format mini-language. See how to use it for creating working format specifiers and build nicely formatted strings and messages in your code.
REAL PYTHON

Python as a Configuration Language

“Conf is not a solved problem. While TOML, YAML, and JSON are popular choices…” the author often roles his own Python using Django-like modelling concepts. Read about how they do it.
BITE CODE

Python News: What’s New From January 2024

In January 2024, Python 3.13.0a3 was released. A new JIT compiler was added to Python 3.13. The Python Software Foundation announced new developers in residence, and the Python ecosystem released new versions of projects, such as Django and pandas.
REAL PYTHON

Discussions

How to Deal With Constant Interruptions at Work?

HACKER NEWS

What Python Automation Scripts Do You Reuse Frequently?

HACKER NEWS

Articles & Tutorials

Python Debugging Handbook

“Programming is an art, and bugs are an inevitable part of the creative process. Every developer encounters errors in their code – there’s really no exception to it. Because of this, understanding how to effectively debug is a crucial skill that can save you time and frustration.”
SAMYAK JAIN

Handling Unset Values in FastAPI With Pydantic

When using the HTTP PATCH method only those fields that got changed are updated. Pydantic sets fields not given as arguments as None so there is no way to distinguish between an explicit None value and an unset field. This post explains how you process this scenario.
ROMAN IMANKULOV

The Morning Paper for Hacker News Readers

Want a byte-sized version of Hacker News? Try TLDR’s free daily newsletter. TLDR covers the most interesting tech, science, and coding news in just 5 minutes. No sports, politics, or weather. Subscribe for free!
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Building Enumerations With Python’s `enum`

Discover the art of creating and using enumerations of logically connected constants in Python. To accomplish this, you’ll explore the Enum class and other associated tools and types from the enum module in the Python standard library.
REAL PYTHON course

What Are Python Raw Strings?

In this tutorial, you’ll learn the nuances of using raw string literals in your Python source code. Raw strings offer convenient syntax for including backslash characters in string literals without the complexity of escape sequences.
REAL PYTHON

Microdot: Yet Another Python Web Framework

Miguel is the maintainer of Microdot, a web framework for Python. This post covers why he wrote another Python web framework and what distinguishes Microdot from the crowd.
MIGUEL GRINBERG

Real Life Use of Decorators

Part 3 in a series on how Python decorators are used. This part covers real-life use cases including call interception, function registration, and behavioral enrichment.
BITE CODE

Add Vue to Your Django Templates With Vite

You don’t have to build a separate app to use Vue with Django. This article talks about the Vite tool and how you can integrate Vue.js directly into your templates.
ALICE

The Python Rust-Aissance

Companies like Polars are showing how with Rust, Python developers now have a better, smoother path towards building high-performance libraries.
SLATER STICH

Mutating the Immutable Tuple (Sort Of)

“Tuples are immutable, but their contents can change. Eh?! Let me tell you the story of my neighbours moving house, and all will make sense.”
STEPHEN GRUPETTA • Shared by Stephen Gruppetta

`map()` vs List Comprehensions

This tutorial covers the difference between Python’s map() and using list comprehensions, with examples on how to use both.
SOUMYA AGARWAL

Django, SQLite, and the Database Is Locked Error

This post explains “database is locked” errors in Django when using SQLite, and how to solve them.
ANZE

Using Python & Poetry Inside Docker

ASHISH BHATIA

Projects & Code

apple-ocr: Apple Vision Wrapper for Text Extraction and Clustering

PYPI.ORG

RustPython: OSS CPython Written in Rust

RUSTPYTHON.GITHUB.IO

granian: Rust HTTP Server for Python Applications

GITHUB.COM/EMMETT-FRAMEWORK

django-webhook: Outgoing Webhooks Triggered on Model Changes

GITHUB.COM/DANIHODOVIC

Applio: Ultimate Voice Cloning Tool

GITHUB.COM/IAHISPANO

wafer: Web Application Firewall Fuzzing Tool

GITHUB.COM/SYSDIG

django-mock-queries: Mock Django Queryset Functions for Testing

GITHUB.COM/STPHIVOS

typed_configparser: Fully Typed INI/Config File Parser

GITHUB.COM/AJATKJ

tuttut: Converts a Midi File to ASCII Guitar Tabs

GITHUB.COM/NATECDR

Events

Python Atlanta

February 9, 2024
MEETUP.COM

PyDelhi User Group Meetup

February 10, 2024
MEETUP.COM

DFW Pythoneers 2nd Saturday Teaching Meeting