Python Weekly (Issue 515 September 2 2021)

Python Weekly - Issue 515

September 02, 2021

Python Weekly

Welcome to issue 515 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

News

Want to play a pivotal role in the planning and success of PyCon US? Here’s your chance!

Python dominates as the de facto platform for new technologies.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

This is presented in four parts: Introduction to web applications and how to build a search feature, Adding search functionality and implementing synonyms, curations, and relevance, Dockerizing and deploying in a cloud, Collecting logs and traces to better understand the application's performance.

Learn how to bundle Django and React and code a full-stack boilerplate using this modern stack - with free samples.

How to use the Alpaca API, Python and Streamlit to collect data on your trades and provide some brief financial statistics.

Learn how to design and build REST APIs with Python and Flask following best practices.

A longstanding tug-of-war between system package managers and Python's own installation mechanisms (primarily pip, but there are others) looks on its way to being resolved—or at least regularized. PEP 668 ("Graceful cooperation between external and Python package managers") has been created to provide ways for the two types of package installation to work together, rather than at cross-purposes at times. 

This is a collection of simple PyTorch implementations of neural networks and related algorithms. These implementations are documented with explanations, and the website renders these as side-by-side formatted notes

Did you know that you could program in Blender to automatically create 3D objects and animations? In this post, you will see that with less than a hundred lines of Python, we can create a basic procedural solar system with dynamic and randomized meshes, materials and animation!

Ploomber is an open-source framework that allows teams to develop maintainable pipelines in Jupyter.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

AI-Powered Command-Line Photo Search Tool.

TTS is a library for advanced Text-to-Speech generation. It's built on the latest research, was designed to achieve the best trade-off among ease-of-training, speed and quality.

A web-app/remote for when you're feeling lazy while streaming content.

Audio preprocessing framework for Deep Learning audio applications.

requests-cache is a transparent, persistent cache for the python requests library. It can substantially improve performance and reduce network traffic, making it an ideal companion for almost any application using requests.

Database Reasoning Over Text project for ACL paper.

A Python package for easy multiprocessing, but faster than multiprocessing.

An open-source AutoML Library in PyTorch.

Instagram's experimental performance oriented greenfield implementation of Python.

A tiny social network (for bunnies), built with FastAPI and React+RxJs.

GraphQL security auditing script with a focus on performing batch GraphQL queries and mutations.

New Releases

Upcoming Events and Webinars

There will be following talks

  • FastAPI - A new and exciting Python web development framework

  • xonsh : I don't remember how to write a for loop in Bash

There will be a talk, Combining the DNA of Pandas and NumPy: Weather Forecasting using XArray.

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