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Welcome to issue 553 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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News

Python 3.11 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Fantastic

Last month Python 3.11 Beta 1 was released as their first preview of this major update to the Python programming language. Besides new language features and other improvements, Python 3.11 performance is looking fantastic with very nice performance uplift over prior Python 3.x releases.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Code Your Own Heroku Clone with Python 

Learn all about how to provision infrastructure programmatically by building a simplified Heroku clone with Python. At the end you will also learn how to provision a web app on AWS using JavaScript.

Build dashboard in Python with automatic updates and email notifications

Do you need to monitor data from multiple sources and act based on their values? If you answered yes, then it means that you need a dashboard. This post will show you how to create a dashboard in Python. It will automatically update the values in the dashboard and send email notifications based on monitored values. The dashboard will be deployed to the Amazon AWS cloud service.

AOL 3.0 (1996) Reverse Engineered in Python

It's now possible to "Sign On" to AOL 3.0 in 2022.

Serving machine learning models with FastAPI: It’s not all about speed

Deploying models is a tricky topic. In this posts, we describe 4 key reasons why we've chosen FastAPI to deploy out Machine Learning models.

An Intro to the contextlib Module in Python 

Learn how to create different types of context managers using Python's contextlib module!

Beautiful Flask Tables, Part 2

It's been almost a year since I published my Beautiful Interactive Tables for your Flask Templates article, in which I showed a few example tables, rendered from a standard Flask and Jinja template, with some JavaScript help. I have received a good amount of feedback on my proposed solutions. In this article I'm going to refresh my table examples to address the two most frequently requested improvements.

Understanding Sampling With and Without Replacement (Python)

This tutorial will dive into sampling with and without replacement and will touch on some common applications of these concepts in data science. 

Create custom Datasets from Wikipedia with Python and Pandas 

In this video we will learn how to create custom datasets from wikipedia using python and pandas. Rob Mulla, kaggle grandmaster, will walk through using pandas read_html function. It makes reading tables from html and websites really easy. With a little cleaning you can have a great unique dataset in just minutes!

Dates And Times And Types

Get a TypeError when using a datetime when you wanted a date.

Raising exceptions or returning error objects in Python

How returning error objects can provide some advantages over raising exceptions in Python, such as for static type checking tools.

I Forked “Asyncpg” — And It Parses Database Records to Numpy 20x Faster

Presenting the fork of asyncpg — asynchronous PostgreSQL client for Python — based on NumPy structured arrays.

Making pip installs a little less slow

Installing packages with pip, Poetry, and Pipenv can be slow. Learn how to ensure it’s not even slower, and a potential speed-up.

Getting Started with ESPnet

ESPnet is the premier end-to-end, open-source speech processing toolkit. This easy-to-follow guide will help you get started using ESPnet for Speech Recognition.

Books

Packaging Python Applications with PyInstaller, with step by step examples for PyQt, Tkinter, PySimpleGUI, wxPython & Kivy

This book walks you step-by-step through the process of packaging your own Python applications. Starting with simple examples and working up to complete installers and signed executables.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

dot

dot (aka Deepfake Offensive Toolkit) makes real-time, controllable deepfakes ready for virtual cameras injection. dot is created for performing penetration testing against e.g. identity verification and video conferencing systems, for the use by security analysts, Red Team members, and biometrics researchers.

basic-pitch

A lightweight yet powerful audio-to-MIDI converter with pitch bend detection.

openai-cookbook

Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API.

Python-Selenium-Action

Run Selenium with Python via Github Actions using Headless or Non-Headless browsers!

deny

Python authorization library.

editabletuple

This module provides the editabletuple() function for creating classes with a fixed sequence of fields, similar to a namedtuple, except editable.

mlem

Version and deploy your ML models following GitOps principles.

Calcure

Modern TUI calendar and task manager with minimal and customizable UI.

Pipe

A Python library to use infix notation in Python.

New Releases

Python 3.10.5 is available

The latest bugfix drop for Python 3.10 is here: Python 3.10.5. This release packs more than 230 bugfixes and docs changes.

Upcoming Events and Webinars

Python Barcelona Meetup June 2022

There will be following talks

• Run the extra mile with serverless

• Creating Python Data Pipelines with Yaetos

PyData Montreal Meetup #21

There will be following talks

• Introduction to Trustworthy Machine Learning for the Enterprise

• ML in production in the video game industry: Ubisoft's use case

PyData Tel Aviv Meetup June 2022

There will be following talks

• The notorious POC

• Deep Learning Approach to Partial Differential Equations-based Problems

• A Subset-Based Strategy for Faster AutoML

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