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Welcome to issue 536 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

News

Google releases differential privacy pipeline for Python

PipelineDP allows datasets containing personal information to be aggregated in a way that preserves the privacy of individuals.

Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

10 Unknown Security Pitfalls for Python

In this blog post, we share 10 security pitfalls for Python developers that we encountered in real-world projects.

Creating Beautiful Tracebacks with Python's Exception Hooks

Debugging can become an enjoyable experience with beautiful traceback messages created with Python’s custom exception hooks.

A Comprehensive Guide to Slicing in Python

Python Slicing is a powerful tool to access sequences. To learn more about the inner mechanics of slices, read this post.

How to stop running out of ephemeral ports and start to love long-lived connections

In this blog post, I'll explain why we had these issues, how we worked around them, and present an userspace code implementing an improved variant of connect() syscall.

Building for Balance

How Instacart Marketplace team developed a unified marketplace balancing engine with machine learning and optimization

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SPONSORHow I hacked SONOS and YouTube the same dayOr how to play YouTube videos on your SONOS, easy and for free.Python and the Legend of ZeldaUsing brute force to solve a classic grid-based puzzle.Is your code too complicated?Measuring the complexity of your code with two different metrics - Cyclomatic Complexity & Cognitive Complexity.Scaling SHAP Calculations With PySpark and Pandas UDFLearn more about how a scalable SHAP values calculation solution using PySpark and Pandas UDFs can help model explainability with improved performance.Deploying web application to AWS: Django, Django ChannelsDeploying your project to AWS can be difficult and frustrating if you are new to deploying a project. Neither is the AWS user interface easy to work with nor is their documentation easy to understand. In this post, I wish not only help you deploy your Django project but also to help you understand AWS better. I will also talk about some of the common errors that I faced during the deployment.How To Annotate Entities With Spacy PhraseMacherLearn to write a name matching pipeline using spaCy’s PhraseMatcher that finds and labels organization names and their stock ticker symbols.Security 101: Securing file downloadsA Gentle Introduction to AWS LambdaDeep physical neural networks trained with backpropagationInteresting Projects, Tools and LibrariesPokerFully functional Pokerbot that works on PartyPoker, PokerStars and GGPoker, scraping tables with Open-CV (adaptable via gui) or neural network and making decisions based on a genetic algorithm and montecarlo simulation for poker equity calculation.cibuildwheelBuild Python wheels for all the platforms on CI with minimal configuration.woobwoob is a collection of applications able to interact with websites, without requiring the user to open them in a browser. It also provides well-defined APIs to talk to websites lacking one.Rich-cliRich-cli is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal, built with Rich.ProcrastinatePostgreSQL-based Task Queue for Python.PathMLAn open-source toolkit for computational pathology and machine learning.rip_rawRip Raw is a small tool to analyze the memory of compromised Linux systems.ChatViewGenerate data visualizations and get meaningful insights of your chat message history.tstockA command line tool to view stock charts in the terminal.EspialEspial is an engine for automated organization and discovery of personal knowledge.New ReleasesDjango security releases issued: 4.0.2, 3.2.12, and 2.2.27Upcoming Events and WebinarsVirtual: PyMNtos Python Presentation Night #101There will be the following talks

• Creating GUI Applications in Python

• Django Project Share: Summer_Fun

Virtual: PyData Sydney February 2022There will be a talk, Helping Pandas with Pyjanitor.Virtual: PyData Paris February 2022There will be a talk, Better Data Governance with Revision Control Workflows.Virtual: IndyPy Meetup February 2022There will be a talk, Python Dependency Security; best practices and learnings along the way. 

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