#519 – APRIL 5, 2022
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Python’s urllib.request for HTTP Requests
In this tutorial, you’ll be making HTTP requests with Python’s built-in urllib.request. You’ll try out examples and review common errors encountered, all while learning more about HTTP requests and Python in general.
REAL PYTHON
Text Similarity w/ Levenshtein Distance in Python
Levenshtein distance is a measure of the difference between two chunks of text. This article explains how it works and how to set up a data pipeline using it to detect plagiarism.
VATSAL P.
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The Counter-Intuitive Rise of Python in Scientific computing
Why Python’s ability to write code quickly and access to more libraries can out perform heavily optimized compiled code.
T. DURANTON, A. DAUPTAIN, & C. LAPEYRE
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Articles & Tutorials
Advanced Exploratory Data Analysis With Python
Getting a good feeling for a new dataset is not always easy, and takes time. However, a good and broad exploratory data analysis (EDA) can help a lot to understand your dataset. This article walks you through how to analyze your dataset using popular Python libraries.
MICHAEL NOTTER
Scaling Our Dependency Graph
A study of the dependency tooling impact on the developers’ productivity and the dependency graph as the company grows. In 2020, we went for pip-tools and tracked how it solved most of our problems and all the benefits it brought to the team
AURÉLIEN DIDIER• Shared by Aurélien Didier
Python RCE Vulnerability Discovered in Celery
Learn about the object traversal pattern common in the wider Python ecosystem, and how this led to the discovery of a stored command injection vulnerability in Celery. This step-by-step analysis also includes remediation guidance →
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Pre-Allocated Lists in Python
Allocating a list with content is faster than appending, so allocating a list of nothing can be a valuable optimization. This article shows the differences in speed gained by this micro-optimization and when to use it.
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Responsive Tables With Django and htmx
htmx is a tool for injecting HTML snippets into pages allowing you to reduce the amount of Javascript in your interactive web pages. This article shows you how to use htmx in Django to produce a responsive table.
JOASH XU
Python Support Vector Machines With Scikit-Learn
Support vector machines (SVM) are algorithms commonly used for supervised machine learning models. This article is a a beginner-friendly guide to creating them in Python with Scikit-Learn.
NIK PIEPENBREIER• Shared by Nik Piepenbreier
20 Python Interview Questions
Practice up for that next interview. Questions about data structures, language concepts, and some common standard library functions.
AHMED BESBES
Azure Python Blob Trigger
How to use twitterstats and the azure libraries to fetch data from Twitter and keep it in Azure Blob Storage through triggers.
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Webinar: Extending Conda With its New Plugin API
In this webinar, we are going over how conda is getting a new plugin API and related infrastructure to help lower the contribution barrier for community members and enable a new generation of innovators for the conda project.
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The Ultimate Guide to Onboarding Software Engineers
Learn how to onboard engineers with an empathetic and structured approach. Includes a 30-60-90-day check-in template.
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Understanding Decorators in Python
Learn what decorators are, how they work, common decorators in the standard library, and how to write your own.
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Happy Pythoning!
This was PyCoder’s Weekly Issue #519.
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