Python Weekly (Issue 475 November 19 2020)

Python Weekly - Issue 475

November 19, 2020

Python Weekly

Welcome to issue 475 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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News

Guido van Rossum announced that he has unretired and joined Microsoft’s Developer Division.

Django Software Foundation is accepting applications for the Board of Directors until Nov. 30.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

A first part of two part series that talks about why you should Python 3 and rare and edge case difference in Python 2 and Python 3 and Compatible Solutions for those.

Spotify Codes are QR-like codes that can be generated to easily share Spotify songs, artists, playlists, and users. The author set out to figure out how they worked, which lead him on a winding journey through barcode history, patents, packet sniffing, error correction, and Gray tables.

Detailed explanation about scraping heavy AJAX driven websites with Python, Selenium webdriver and Beautiful Soup. With further exporting the data to a csv file.

Learn how to use Python to fetch and analyze search query data from Google Search Console and estimate its potential for high traffic content production.

Two engineers at Salesforce talk about how they decoupled a complex library from old spaghetti logic, then open sourced that library by creating a new internal process where none existed before.

Save yourself hours of debugging by avoiding these common gotchas and pitfalls in your Python code.

In this article, we explore several optimization techniques and implement them in Python from scratch.

I installed every package on PyPI to look for malicious content. This is what I found.

Unlocking the mysteries of Python's WSGI web framework.

This post will show you how to use Charles proxy to reverse-engineer hidden and private APIs on websites and mobile applications.

A practical deep dive into GPU Accelerated Python on cross-vendor graphics cards (AMD, Qualcomm, NVIDIA & friends) building machine learning algorithms using the Vulkan Kompute Python Framework.

Serialization transforms data into a format that can be stored or transmitted and then reconstructs it for use. DRF has the best-known serializers.

Without using a subdomain, Django's static files, or a reverse proxy, can you build a statically generated blog into your Django app? Yes!  This post shows you how the author created a static blog in Hugo and added it to his Django project.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

AI memory assistant – remember everything you read.

Track and predict the energy consumption and carbon footprint of training deep learning models.

RESTler is the first stateful REST API fuzzing tool for automatically testing cloud services through their REST APIs and finding security and reliability bugs in these services.

Python game programming in Jupyter notebooks.

An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System.

A PyTorch toolbox for adversarial attack and deepfake detection research.

A Bookkeeping & Financial Analysis Engine for the Django Framework.

Python library and client for token manipulations and impersonations for privilege escalation on Windows.

The Unofficial TikTok API Wrapper In Python.

Commonly used path planning algorithms with animations.

Syrupy is a pytest snapshot plugin. It enables developers to write tests which assert immutability of computed results.

Elemental makes Selenium automation faster and easier.

A Python package for creating mock maps of astrophysical signals from a halo catalog.

New Releases

This release introduces the Jupyter extension, which the Python extension now takes a dependency on. There are small enhancements and fixed issues requested by users that should improve your experience working with Python in Visual Studio Code.

Upcoming Events and Webinars

An overview of common NLP techniques such as Part of speech tagging and Named entity recognition. You will get some hands-on experience with common NLP tasks in Python, taking them from the first preprocessing steps to the visual inspection of trained models using popular NLP libraries such as NLTK, spaCy, and gensim.

There will be following talks

  • From idea to 6000 users in a week

  • Python 2 to 3 migration

There will be following talks

  • Community Building through Documentation

  • Optimising feature engineering pipelines with Feature-engine

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