Python Weekly (Issue 524 November 4 2021)

Python Weekly - Issue 524

November 04, 2021

Python Weekly

Welcome to issue 524 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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News

Currently we are seeking 60 speakers for various topics. The CFP closes on November 15, 2021 23:30 UTC.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

A mega tutorial with dozens of examples on how to use the pathlib module in Python 3.

Lumetri scopes are a type of histogram in Adobe Premiere, After Effects & co. They are used to inform the color correction process. Usually they don't look like an actual image, just a distribution of dots. This post shows you how to convert a given image (sequence) in a way that makes the image(s) show up in the Waveform or Spectogram display.

A pretty cool post where the author describes how he created Suite8080, a suite of Intel 8080 Assembly cross-development tools written in Python.

It’s common for those of us in the tech space to be drawn in by cool buzzwords and shiny new logos. In this post you’ll learn why internals matter more than those buzzwords.

This tutorial will show you how to create a WhatsApp chatbot that can help you set reminders using the Twilio API for WhatsApp for communication, Python for development, Google Sheets as database and Heroku for deployment.

If you are using Flask 2 you now have a new extension called Flask-Sock, which provides modern WebSocket support for your application. In this article I'm going to show you how to work with this extension.

In this end-to-end tutorial, we are going to show you how to use TensorFlow core, TensorFlow Agents and TensorFlow Lite to build a game agent to play against a human user in a small board game app. 

A tutorial series that will teach you how to integrate Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js with Django, and how to make them work together.

This post talks about engineering decisions and thought processes of creating Burplist, a fast and simple search engine for craft beers in Singapore.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Ready to use and customizable Authentications and Oauth2 management for FastAPI.

PyTorch Library for Fast and Easy Distributed Graph Learning.

PatrickStar enables Larger, Faster, Greener Pretrained Models for NLP. Democratize AI for everyone.

A suite of benchmarks for CPU and GPU performance of the most popular high-performance libraries for Python.

A tool for creating credentials for accessing S3 buckets.

A lightweight transformer library for PyTorch.

Django-based Crypto Portfolio Tracker.

New Releases

Upcoming Events and Webinars

There will be following talks

  • Growing Rhino’s Experimentation Culture

  • Using Data Science for Marketing Measurement

  • ETL and Reverse ETL to Empower Stakeholders

There will be following talks

  • Python Reverse Q&A

  • Structural Pattern Matching

There will be a workshop, Python Testing from Zero: Testing your Relational Database Supported API.

There will be following talks

  • Data enrichment and contextual data pipelines for real-time prediction systems

  • What should I buy next? How to leverage word embeddings to build an efficient recommender system.

  • Audio psychoacoustics and speech quality measurements

There will be following talks

  • Anvil: Full-Stack Web With Nothing But Python

  • A (Brief) Tour of Python 3.10

There will be a talk, Building a Modern Data Stack with dbt.

There will be a talk, Identity-Based Security in Decoupled Applications with Python and DANE.

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