Python Weekly (Issue 530 December 16 2021)

Python Weekly - Issue 530

December 16, 2021

Python Weekly

Welcome to issue 530 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Remember the Game Boy? Have you ever wondered what it would take to build an emulator capable of running Game Boy cartridges? Let’s write one and find out!

While Jupyter is widely used as a scientific and educational tool, Jupyter is seldom used as a platform for game development. In this post, we show how Jupyter can be used to develop tiny games based on Box2D. 

Should you use PyTorch vs TensorFlow in 2022? This guide walks through the major pros and cons of PyTorch vs TensorFlow, and how you can pick the right framework.

A ready-to-use template for FastAPI, SQLModel, and ConfZ to quickly build highly configurable and powerful APIs.

Simulating a 3D Solar System in Python using Matplotlib. Explore how to represent a 3D real-world system in Python

Minecraft has an API. If you run your server, you can program it from Python. Here are notes from how I set it up. It’s a lot of fun to make things happen in Minecraft with Python.

This post shares optimization findings to speed up Transformer-based models’ CPU inference and improve computational demand in Google Cloud.

In this tutorial, we will cover several common language features in Python that distinct itself from other programming languages.

GitHub has announced the general availability of precise code navigation for all public and private Python repositories on GitHub.com. Precise code navigation is powered by stack graphs, a new open-source framework that lets you define the name binding rules for a programming language. This post shows how stack graphs work, and how they achieve these results.

Interesting Projects, Tools, and Libraries

drgn (pronounced "dragon") is a debugger with an emphasis on programmability. drgn exposes the types and variables in a program for easy, expressive scripting in Python. 

Implementation of the Folders esoteric programming language, a language with no code and just folders.

Pixray is an image generation system.

ConfZ is a configuration management library for Python based on pydantic.

Predict your time series the easiest way.

The World3 model revisited in Python.

Image BERT Pre-Training with Online Tokenizer.

A Lightweight Experiment & Resource Monitoring Tool.

One-stop-shop for docs and test coverage of dbt projects.

This is an official implementation for "SimMIM: A Simple Framework for Masked Image Modeling".

New Releases

This release includes:

  • Module rename refactoring with change preview, via Pylance

  • A rich editing experience when working with virtual or untrusted workspaces

  • An update regarding debugging with Python 2.7

  • A community highlight: Don Jayamanne’s new Python environment management extension

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