PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #541 (Sept. 6, 2022)

#541 – SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
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Creating a Python Code Completer & More AST Projects

How does a code completion tool work? What is an Abstract Syntax Tree, and how is it created in Python? How does an AST help you write programs and projects that inspect and modify your Python code? This week on the show, Meredydd Luff, co-founder of Anvil, shares his PyCon talk, “Building a Python Code Completer.”
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Python String Methods to Know

Python’s strings have 47 methods. That’s almost as many string methods as there are built-in functions in Python! Which string methods should you learn first?
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The Developer Experience you Always Wanted for Postgres

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Dragon Curve in Python 🐍

A Dragon Curve is a kind of fractal image. This article introduces you to the math behind the curve and how to draw one using a Python script.
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Gevent for the Working Python Developer

This step-by-step tutorial runs you through the use of gevent, a Python concurrency library. It covers synchronous and asynchronous execution, determinism, timeouts, monkey-patching, and much more. It has also been translated into Italian and Japanese.
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Python Package Manager Shootout

A performance based shootout for pdm, pip-tools, pipenv, and poetry. It compares installation, lock file processing, and the time to add and update packages. Speed isn’t everything for tool choice, but knowing the difference may help you choose.
PETER BAUMGARTNER

Scout APM: Find and Fix Performance Issues with Ease

Scout’s APM tool pinpoints and prioritizes performance and stability issues in Python applications. With Scout’s tracing logic, developers can detect the exact line of code causing the performance abnormality, and with detailed backtraces, you can fix the issue before customers ever notice →
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Why Your Website Should Be Under 14kB in Size

Everyone knows that smaller sites load faster, but did you know specific limits can make a big difference? Due to how TCP works and packets are grouped, a 14kB page can load more than half a second faster than a 15kB page. Learn why.
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How Can You Install a Pre-Release Version of Python?

If you want to have a peek at what’s coming in the next stable version of Python, then you can install a pre-release version. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to access the latest Python versions and help test them.
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Some Ways to Get Better at Debugging

A short summary of a couple of academic papers on how to improve your debugging skills, broken down into: learn the codebase, learn the system, learn your tools, learn strategies, and gain experience.
JULIA EVANS

The Five Worst Things About Jupyter Notebooks

Daniel talks about how, despite once loving Jupyter, things keep getting in his way. Read about the downsides of notebooks and why one data scientist is moving to other tools.
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Deepnote: Data Science Notebook for Collaboration

Real-time collaboration: Work together with your friends, teammates, and colleagues. Fully managed: Deepnote runs in your browser, so you start coding in seconds on any device. Works with your stack: Tap into dozens of native data integrations.
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Topic Detection in Podcast Episodes With Python

This tutorial shows you how to transcribe a podcast using a speech-to-text Python SDK and derive a list of topics from it to quickly discover topics and meaning in text data.
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Please Do Not Use Python for Tooling

This opinion piece talks about how dependency management and the lack of an executable make Python a problematic choice for writing tools.
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