Python Weekly (Issue 466 September 17 2020)

Python Weekly - Issue 466

September 17, 2020

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Welcome to issue 466 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

This Django tutorial will show you how to build a simple Hacker News clone using Django 3. It will begin by setting up a virtual environment to work in and then build the project piece by piece. 

A latest NumPy paper where its fundamental concepts are reviewed and its evolution into a flexible interoperability layer between increasingly specialized computational libraries is discussed.

Walk through internals of ctypes, libffi, binary extensions, and other tools that power seamless interoperability of CPython and C.

A little story of a common Django pitfall.

Learn how to implement a license plate identification system. On resource-constrained systems, running inferences may prove to be too computationally expensive. One solution is to run the ML in the cloud and have the local (embedded) system act as a client of these services.

How can you block one IP simultaneously on multiple machines?

In this post, we will explore how to build a simple social app that allows users to share posts, like Twitter. Unlike Twitter, our application will include post visibility control. We will implement this access control using oso, an open source policy engine that is embedded in your application. The django-oso package makes it possible to use oso in a Django app with little configuration.

This article describes how to read HTML tables from Wikipedia or other sites and convert them to a pandas DataFrames for further analysis.

This video shows you some ways through which you can automate your excel workbooks. It shows you how we can effectively use them to retrieve information, merge, search and filter data, and compute operations in excel. 

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Eiten is a toolkit that implements various statistical and algorithmic investing strategies such as Eigen Portfolios, Minimum Variance Portfolios, Maximum Sharpe Ratio Portfolios, and Genetic Algorithms based Portfolios. 

VizTracer is a low-overhead logging/debugging/profiling tool that can trace and visualize your python code execution.

A proof-of-concept jupyter extension which converts english queries into relevant python code.

Freki is a free and open-source malware analysis platform.

A minimalist knowledge base manager

An Interactive Hex-Rays Microcode Explorer.

Implement aiohttp.web OpenAPI 3 server applications with schema first approach.

Ever wanted your Python scripts to play music while running/on erroring out? With Jazzit you can just add a decorator to your functions and jazz it up.

Tool for fingerprinting HTTP requests of malware. Based on Tshark and written in Python3.

Fast Block Sparse Matrices for Pytorch.

Upcoming Events and Webinars

PyCon Turkey 2020 is more than just a stream of talks and presentations. In addition to two tracks of talks, you will also have an opportunity to ask questions to the speakers, meet our sponsors, and have random chats with other participants.

There will be following talks

  • How to Avoid Becoming a 10x Engineer

  • Sets and Frozen Sets

There will be following talks

  • Why AI Industry needs a Revision Control Graph Database

  • Writing production-level Machine Learning code from the gecko with least effort

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