~pycoders | Issue #657 (Nov. 26, 2024) (29)

NumPy Practical Examples: Useful Techniques In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use NumPy by exploring several interesting examples. You’ll read data from a file into an array and analyze structured arrays to perform a reconciliation. You’ll also learn how to quickly chart an analysis and turn a custom function into a vectorized function. REAL PYTHON

Loop Targets Loop assignment allows you to assign to a dict item in a for loop. This post covers what that means and that it is no more costly than regular assignment. NED BATCHELDER

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Vector Animations With Python This post shows you how to use gizeh and moviepy to create animations using vector graphics. DEEPNOTE.COM

Avoid Counting in Django Pagination Django’s Paginator class separates data into chunks to display pages of results. By default, underneath it uses a SQL COUNT(*) call which for large amounts of data can be expensive. This article shows you how to get around that. NIK TOMAZIC

Working With TOML and Python TOML is a configuration file format that’s becoming increasingly popular in the Python community. In this video course, you’ll learn the syntax of TOML and explore how you can work with TOML files in your own projects. REAL PYTHON course

Categories of Leadership on Technical Teams Understanding the different types of technical leadership can help you better structure teams and define roles and responsibilities. This post talks about the various types of technical leaders you might encounter. BEN KUHN

Quick Prototyping With Sqlite3 Python’s sqlite3 bindings makes it a great tool for quick prototyping while you’re working out what it is exactly that you’re building and what kind of database schema makes sense. JUHA-MATTI SANTALA

Django Performance and Optimization “This document provides an overview of techniques and tools that can help get your Django code running more efficiently - faster, and using fewer system resources.” DJANGO SOFTWARE FOUNDATION

Python Dependency Management Is a Dumpster Fire Managing dependencies in Python can be a bit of a challenge. This deep dive article shows you all the problems and how the problems are mitigated if not solved. NIELS CAUTAERTS

Under the Microscope: Ecco the Dolphin This article shows the use of Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer the encoding scheme of the Sega Dreamcast game Eccho the Dolphin. 32BITS

Is Python Really That Slow? The speed of Python is an age old conversation. This post talks about just what it does and doesn’t mean. MIGUEL GRINBERG

Threads Beat Async/Await Further musings about async & await and why Armin thinks virtual threads are a better model. ARMIN RONACHER