Python Weekly (Issue 660 July 25 2024)

Python Weekly - Issue 660

July 25, 2024

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Welcome to issue 660 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Learn 6 essential tips for designing a great REST API that even big companies often overlook. From following standards and maintaining consistency to writing clear documentation and simplifying integration, this video covers everything you need to create user-friendly and efficient APIs. Don't miss out on the key strategies for improving your API design!

In this blog post, I’m going to write a small abtract interpreter for the Toy IR and then show how we can use it to do some simple optimizations.

A few simple tips to make your REST API go faster.

In my last post I've described how to use Z3 to find simple local peephole optimization patterns for the integer operations in PyPy's JIT. An example is int_and(x, 0) -> 0. In this post I want to scale up the problem of identifying possible optimizations to much bigger instruction sequences, also using Z3.

In this blog post, I describe my experience as a first-time contributor and talk about the story behind np.top_k.

The `plotnine` visualisation library brings the Grammar of Graphics to Python. This post walks through the process of creating a customised, annotated area chart of coal production data.

This article briefly describes the iterators available in the Python module itertools and how to use them.

Step-by-step guide to making an interactive search bar with Flask and HTMX.

This is an article about setting up a modern Python project. It discusses using tools like Rye, Ruff, and Pyright for formatting, linting, and type checking.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

The memory layer for Personalized AI.

Python library that allows you to get structured responses in the form of Pydantic models and Python types from Anthropic, Google Vertex AI and OpenAI models

A family dashboard for kids.

A Comprehensive Toolkit for High-Quality PDF Content Extraction.

Agentic components of the Llama Stack APIs. 

New Releases

Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes.

Upcoming Events and Webinars

There will be following talks

  • Mastering LLM Workflows: Benchmarking, Tools, and Best Practices

  • BI on a budget

Grace Morgan-Maxwell will speak on Flask and Django, walking through personal projects using the insights from her studies to discuss the good, the bad and the ugly.

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