Python Weekly (Issue 608 July 13 2023)

Python Weekly - Issue 608

July 13, 2023

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Welcome to issue 608 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit to support in the form of three engineer-years (from engineers experienced working in CPython internals) between the acceptance of PEP 703 and the end of 2025, to collaborate with the core dev team on landing the PEP 703 implementation smoothly in CPython and on ongoing improvements to the compatibility and performance of nogil CPython.

PyLoose is a newly discovered Python-based fileless malware targeting cloud workloads. Get a breakdown of how the attack unfolds and the steps to mitigate it.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Make your own programming language while learning advanced Python.

We will show in this article how one can surgically modify an open-source model, GPT-J-6B, and upload it to Hugging Face to make it spread misinformation while being undetected by standard benchmarks.

Rust can make your Python code much faster; here’s how to start using it as quickly as possible.

Democratizing data analysis with AI.

Using Git to version control your Jupyter notebooks has many advantages but it's a bit tricky to version control your Jupyter notebooks on Git. In this guide, we show you all the best practices, workflows, and tools to make Jupyter Notebooks play nicely with Git, GitHub, and Bitbucket.

This article is about optimizing a tiny bit of Python code by replacing it with its C++ counterpart.

The article provides a brief overview of how to use Vulture to clean up unused code in Django projects. It also discusses some of the limitations of Vulture and how to work around them.

The post provides a brief overview of anywidget and how to use it. It also discusses some of the features that make anywidget unique.

A Comprehensive Guide to Effective Resource Management.

The post provides a brief overview of MediaPipe and how it can be used to enhance virtual humans. It also discusses some of the challenges of creating realistic virtual humans and how MediaPipe can help to address these challenges.

Learn how to build an expert bot using word embeddings and ChatGPT. Leverage the power of word vectors to enhance your chatbot's responses.

Learn how to build LLM applications using PostgreSQL and pgvector as a vector database for embeddings data.

Books

Presents an essential statistical learning toolkit for practitioners in science, industry, and other fields. Demonstrates application of the statistical learning methods in Python.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

InternLM has open-sourced a 7 billion parameter base model, a chat model tailored for practical scenarios and the training system.

GPT based autonomous agent that does online comprehensive research on any given topic.

An AI personal assistant for your digital brain.

Simple boilerplate to get started with Generative AI models from Google Vertex AI based on FastAPI.

Unofficial and reverse-engineered Threads (threads.net) Python API wrapper. Supports read and write capabilities.

Bridging Billions of Data and Humans with Autonomous Workflow.

Sweep is an AI junior dev that transforms bug reports & feature requests into code changes. Simply describe any issue and Sweep will do the rest. It will plan out what needs to be done, what changes to make, and write the changes to a PR.

A simple and powerful neural network framework.

The blazing-fast and developer-friendly federated learning framework.

New Releases

This release includes the following announcements:

  • Mypy extension in preview

  • Debugpy extension in preview

  • Pylance localization

  • Index persistance for 3rd-party libraries with Pylance

  • Upcoming deprecation of Python 3.7 support

Upcoming Events and Webinars

There will be following talks

  • Data Harvest: Unlocking Insights with Python Web Scraping

  • Building the Clouds with Python: A Battle of AWS CDK vs. Pulumi for Infrastructure Provisioning

  • PlayWright and Python: Unleashing Test Automation Magic

There will be following talks

  • Extracting knowledge from complex unstructured texts

  • Python emulation of the NES's MOS6502 processor

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