Python Weekly (Issue 609 July 19 2023)

Python Weekly - Issue 609

July 20, 2023

Python Weekly

Welcome to issue 609 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Learn how to easily implement modern designs in your Tkinter-based Python applications using ttkbootstrap. You will learn how to use all the main ttkbootstrap widgets to make your Tkinter apps look modern and awesome!

This  post details the author's experience of building a 6502 emulator entirely in Python, explaining the challenges faced and the step-by-step process to create a functional and efficient emulator for the vintage microprocessor architecture.

There are certain bugs and issues that are very hard to troubleshoot. Just ask yourself, "How would I debug deadlock, segmentation fault, crashing application, or a hanging process?" Now there's a tool to help you with all of that - PyStack is a powerful new debugger that - according to docs - "uses forbidden magic to let you inspect the stack frames of a running Python process or a Python core dump." So, let's put that statement to a test and explore how to use PyStack to track down and troubleshoot all the above-mentioned issues and bugs.

Watch 80 talks, tutorials, and socials from Python Web Conf 2023 on Six Feet Up's YouTube channel. Explore videos about Python, Django, Kubernetes, AI/ML, Big Data, CI/CD, Serverless, Security, Climate Tech, and more. Learn a new tool. Inspire others to use technology for good.

The Python extension in VS Code is investigating ways to improve our package management support and have completed a comparison of support offered by various package management tools.

In this tutorial, we will walk you through how to use PyCharm and Cloud Code to enhance and optimize your developer productivity. 

The article is a reflection on the development of einops, a library for manipulating tensors in NumPy and PyTorch.

This post discusses how Kraken Technologies organizes their extensive Python monolith, highlighting strategies and tools employed for managing and maintaining the large-scale codebase efficiently.

How to turn outpainted image sequences created by Midjourney or other generative AI's into videos with an infinite zoom effect.

Video demonstrates generating, running and editing code to control LEDs and servos connected to GPIO pins, as well as generating Python code to control a Raspberry Pi camera. But the method shown will work for any type of program, subject to the capabilities of ChatGPT.

A look at why Python is a great language for time-series analysis. Plus, tips for getting started today.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Open source implementation of the ChatGPT Code Interpreter.

vectordb is a Pythonic vector database that offers a comprehensive suite of CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations and robust scalability options, including sharding and replication. 

An experimental AI framework for automated short/video content creation. Enables creators to rapidly produce, manage, and deliver content using AI and automation.

An AI-Powered Tool for Automated PR Analysis, Feedback, Suggestions and More! 

Context-aware AI Sales Agent to automate sales outreach.

Official implementation of AnimateDiff, Animate Your Personalized Text-to-Image Diffusion Models without Specific Tuning.

Useless but mildly interesting language model using compressors built-in to Python.

Infinite Photorealistic Worlds using Procedural Generation.

Fast and memory-efficient exact attention.

Use Microsoft Edge's online text-to-speech service from Python WITHOUT needing Microsoft Edge or Windows or an API key.

Examples and recipes for Llama 2 model.

New Releases

Cython 3.0.0 has been a very large effort that cleaned up many old warts, introduced many new features, and introduced a couple of intentional behavior changes, even though the goal remained to stay compatible as much as possible with Cython 0.29.x. 

Upcoming Events and Webinars

There will be following talks

  • How Hugging Face and Open Source empower developers to leverage state-of-the-art machine learning quickly

  • Bytecode-based Python Debugging

There will be a talk, Have you considered tox in your workflow?

There will be following talks

  • Train in Python, deploy anywhere and anyhow you like!

  • Modern End-to-end Open Source Machine Learning

There will be following talks

  • Data Analyst at North West Ambulance Service

  • Insights Analyst at Pets at Home

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