PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #646 (Sept. 10, 2024)

#646 – SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
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Using Pydantic to Simplify Python Data Validation

Discover the power of Pydantic, Python’s most popular data parsing, validation, and serialization library. In this hands-on video course, you’ll learn how to make your code more robust, trustworthy, and easier to debug with Pydantic.
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Introducing Monthly PSF Board Office Hours

The PSF is introducing monthly office hours on the PSF Discord discussion board. This is a chance to connect with the board members and learn more about what they do. The schedule for the next 12 sessions is in the post.
PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION

500 Devs, Deploying 200x a Day, While Maintaining 4 Million Lines of Code 😮‍💨

Sounds tricky right? Well that’s exactly what Kraken Technologies is doing. Learn how they manage 100s of deployments a day and how they handle errors when they crop up. Sneak peak: they use Sentry to reduce noise, prioritize issues, and maintain code quality–without relying on a dedicated QA team →
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Why I’m Switching From pandas to Polars

Ari is switching from pandas to Polars and surprisingly (even to himself) it isn’t because of the better performance. Read on for the reasons why.
ARI LAMSTEIN

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How to Create a Pre-Commit Hook

Pre-commit hooks are a great way to help maintain code quality. However, some of your code quality standards may be specific to your project, and therefore, not covered by existing code linting and formatting tools. In this article, Stefanie shows you how to incorporate custom checks into your pre-commit setup.
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Debugging With Trace and PYREPL_TRACE

Just how does one debug the tool one is using to find bugs? Python 3.13’s new REPL is implemented in Python and adding print statements means you get output in your output. This quick post talks about the environment variable PYREPL_TRACE and how to use it to capture debug information.
RODRIGO GIRÃO SERRÃO

Evolving Django’s `auth.User`

Carlton has some strong opinions on how Django manages usernames and custom users through auth.User and how the current solution is daunting to folks new to Django. This article dives into why the current approach might be problematic and what could be done.
CARLTON GIBSON

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