#654 – NOVEMBER 5, 2024
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PySheets: Spreadsheets in the Browser Using PyScript
What goes into building a spreadsheet application in Python that runs in the browser? How do you make it launch quickly, and where do you store the cells of data? This week on the show, we speak with Chris Laffra about his project, PySheets, and his book “Communication for Engineers.”
REAL PYTHON podcast
Adding Keyboard Shortcuts to the Python REPL
Python 3.13 included a new version of the REPL which has the ability to define keyboard shortcuts. This article shows you how to create one and warns you about potential hangups.
TREY HUNNER
Tired of Being Paged? Worry Less With Temporal
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TEMPORAL TECHNOLOGIES sponsor
Running a Million Empty Tests
To better understand just where the performance cost of running tests comes from, Anders ran a million empty tests. This post talks about what he did and the final results.
ANDERS HOVMOLLER
Pillow Release 11.0.0
GITHUB.COM/PYTHON-PILLOW
PEP 750: Template Strings (Major Updates)
PSF
PEP 756: Add PyUnicode_Export() and PyUnicode_Import() C Functions (Withdrawn)
PSF
Python 3.8 Reaches End of Life
PYTHON.ORG
Quiz: Single and Double Underscores in Python Names
REAL PYTHON
Quiz: Getting Started With Async Features in Python
REAL PYTHON
Discussions
Thinking of Rewriting Our Go / Java API in Python
Best GUI for Local Client App?
Articles & Tutorials
Move to Sigstore Complicates Linux Distros
Currently, CPython signs its artifacts with both PGP and Sigstore. Removing the PGP signature has been proposed, but that has implications: Sigstore is still new enough that many Linux distributions don’t support it yet.
JOE BROCKMEIER
Python’s Magic Methods in Classes
In this video course, you’ll learn what magic methods are in Python, how they work, and how to use them in your custom classes to support powerful features in your object-oriented code.
REAL PYTHON course
[Webinar] How to Build Secure, Ethical, and Scalable AI Operations
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GUARDRAILS sponsor
Make It Ephemeral: Software Should Decay and Lose Data
In the real world, things decay over time. In the digital world things get kept forever, and sometimes that shouldn’t be so. Designing for deletion is hard.
ARMIN RONACHER
Python 3.13, t-Strings, Dep Groups…
Bite code! does their monthly Python news wrap-up. Check out stories on 3.13, proposed template strings, dependency groups in pyproject.toml, and more.
BITE CODE!
Identifying Products From Images
This project uses computer vision solution to automate doing inventory of products in retail, using YOLOv8 and image embeddings for precise detection.
ALBERT FERRÉ • Shared by Albert Ferré
Write More Pythonic Code With Context Managers
Context managers enable you to create “template” code with initialization and clean up to make the code that uses them easier to read and understand.
JUHA-MATTI SANTALA
Django Girls 10th Birthday!
This post celebrating ten years of Django Girls talks about how it got started, what they’re hoping to do, and how you can get involved.
DJANGO GIRLS
pytest Selection Arguments for Failing Tests
This quick TIL post talks about five useful pytest options that let you control what tests to run with respect to failing tests.
RODRIGO GIRÃO SERRÃO
Asyncio gather() Return Values
This post shows you how to return values from coroutines that have been concurrently executed using asyncio.gather().
JASON BROWNLEE
PyBay 2024
This list contains the recorded talks from the PyBay 2024 conference.
YOUTUBE video
Projects & Code
wimsey: Data Contract Library
GITHUB.COM/BENRUTTER
libcom: Image Composition Toolbox
GITHUB.COM/BCMI
simplemind: Experimental Client for AI Providers
GITHUB.COM/KENNETHREITZ
PyChrono: Multi-Physics Simulation in Python
CRISTIANOPIZZAMIGLIO.COM • Shared by Cristiano Pizzamiglio
jamesql: In-Memory NoSQL Database in Python
GITHUB.COM/CAPJAMESG
Events
Weekly Real Python Office Hours Q&A (Virtual)
November 6, 2024
REALPYTHON.COM
Canberra Python Meetup
November 7, 2024
MEETUP.COM
Sydney Python User Group (SyPy)
November 7, 2024
SYPY.ORG
DFW Pythoneers 2nd Saturday Teaching Meeting
November 9, 2024
MEETUP.COM
PiterPy Meetup
November 12, 2024
PITERPY.COM
PyCon Sweden 2024
November 14 to November 16, 2024
PYCON.SE
PyCon Hong Kong 2024
November 16 to November 17, 2024
PYCON.HK
PyCon Mini Tokai 2024
November 16 to November 17, 2024
PYCON.JP
PyCon Ireland 2024
November 16 to November 18, 2024
PYTHON.IE
Happy Pythoning!
This was PyCoder’s Weekly Issue #654.
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