Python Weekly (Issue 539 February 24 2022)

Python Weekly - Issue 539

February 24, 2022

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Welcome to issue 539 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

This video considers the full probabilistic treatment of Compton scattering using the Klein-Nishina equation to get the distribution of energy transferred to electrons during Compton interactions.

In this article, we will use Python to reimplement the built-in enumerate. We will start with a rough solution that doesn't really cut it, and we will rework it bit by bit until we have a full reimplementation of the built-in enumerate.

Learn how FastAPI, a high-performance Python web framework for building APIs, became the 3d most loved framework after just 2 years of existence.

What does sudo do? One might think that sudo is actually some binary deeply integrated into the kernel, relying on a special purpose-built system call to achieve its functionality. After all, it lets you use root without even providing the password for that account! But thanks to one bit inside file permissions, sudo can exist without any of this. Let's write our own version of sudo to prove this point. 

Modern Python projects need a bit more than venv and pip - Learn about the best tools for package management and environment isolation.

Regular expressions are a common feature of computer languages, especially higher-level languages like Ruby, Perl, Python, and others, for doing fairly sophisticated text-pattern matching. Some languages, including Perl, incorporate regular expressions into the language itself, while others have classes or libraries that come with the language installation. Python's standard library has the re module, which provides facilities for working with regular expressions; as a recent discussion on the python-ideas mailing shows, though, that module has somewhat fallen by the wayside in recent times.

In this post I will show you how and why Docker Compose is useful, building a simple application written in Python that uses PostgreSQL.

Should you be using JAX in 2022? Check out our recommendations on using JAX for Deep Learning and more!

We’ll walk through and explore all the main areas of functionality and I'll give you some tricks you can use to make your development process more easy.

What is text classification? How does do text classifiers work? How can you train your own news classification models?

Learn to build greedy algorithms, then convert them to microservices and finally containerized them and deploy to AWS with App Runner.

This article describes the pattern I use to implement modal forms (i.e., forms in a modal dialog box) with Django and HTMX.

Containerize and Deploy Your ML Model in Python.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Text-based user interface library (TUI) Evolved from the discontinued project pyCuT and inspired by a mix of Qt5,GTK, and tkinter api definition with a touch of personal interpretation.

An anomaly detection library comprising state-of-the-art algorithms and features such as experiment management, hyper-parameter optimization, and edge inference.

Library for Textless Spoken Language Processing.

CodeCat is an open-source tool to help you find/track user input sinks and security bugs using static code analysis.

Leverage rich for richer test session output.

Python tool to talk to Home Connect appliances over the local network (no cloud required).

Make posters from Markdown files. 

Identify privilege escalation paths within and across different clouds.

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Upcoming Events and Webinars

There will be following talks

  • Scale PyData To Clusters & GPUs with Dask

  • Test-Centric ML Model Development

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