Python Weekly (Issue 393 April 18 2019)

Python Weekly - Issue 393

April 18, 2019

Python Weekly

Welcome to issue 393 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Pyodide is an experimental project from Mozilla to create a full Python data science stack that runs entirely in the browser. This post will be more of a technical deep-dive into how it works.

In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how we can transform all of that unstructured text data into something more useful for analysis and natural language processing, using the helpful Python package spaCy.

In this tutorial, we will build a canonical “chat” application that uses the Serverless Framework on top of AWS Lambda and API Gateway for the backend, along with a simple Django client. For good measure, we will use django-uniauth for authenticating users, and secure our requests with JSON Web Tokens (JWT).

Learn how to use these Python logging best practices to debug and optimize your applications.

EdgeDB 1.0 alpha 1 is available for immediate download. This post is a brief overview of what’s new. We explore creating a simple app and compare the usability and performance of EdgeDB to that of different databases and ORMs. 

In this article, we will explore TextBlob, which is another extremely powerful NLP library for Python. TextBlob is built upon NLTK and provides an easy to use interface to the NLTK library. We will see how TextBlob can be used to perform a variety of NLP tasks ranging from parts-of-speech tagging to sentiment analysis, and language translation to text classification.

In this article, we’re going to learn the basics of SQLAlchemy by creating a data-driven web application using Flask, a Python framework. We’lll build a minimal Flask app that keeps track of your book collection.

Learn what anomalies are and several approaches to detect them along with a case study.

Using the matplotlib library to create some interesting animations.

A practical guide to training RNNs for language modelling using PyTorch by using Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning to generate Rick and Morty Scripts.

Python Jobs of the Week

Unbabel’s “Translation as a Service” platform allows modern enterprises to understand and be understood by their customers in dozens of languages. We are looking for an experienced backend developer to build, scale and maintain services at Unbabel.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Semantic Image Synthesis with Spatially-Adaptive Normalization.

Imaging, analysis, and simulation software for radio interferometry.

A small Python editor for learning and competitive programming.

Python extension to run WebAssembly binaries. 

Displays the bond-line structure of a compound or molecule. Gets images from PubChem.

Job portal application using Django.

Open source application to programatically clean your AWS resources based on a whitelist and time to live (TTL) settings.

Mini module with syntax sugar for pandas/sklearn.

TemplateMail is a simple Python library for sending emails using a templating language you already know: Jinja2. It includes by default a Mailgun backend for easy delivery, along with example responsive templates based on Mailgun Responsive Templates.

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