~pycoders | Issue #670: pyproject.toml, DuckDB, Flet, and More (Feb. 25, 2025) (26)

How to Manage Python Projects With pyproject.toml Learn how to manage Python projects with the pyproject.toml configuration file. In this tutorial, you’ll explore key use cases of the pyproject.toml file, including configuring your build, installing your package locally, managing dependencies, and publishing your package to PyPI. REAL PYTHON

Mastering DuckDB When You’re Used to pandas or Polars Why use DuckDB / SQL at all if you’re used to dataframes? This article makes the case for some reasons why, and shows how to perform some operations which in dataframe are basic but in SQL aren’t necessarily obvious MARCO GORELLI • Shared by Marco Gorelli

Lighter, Faster Object Segmentation with Intel AI, Powered by OpenVINO Meet EfficientSAM—a high-performance version of SAM, designed for greater efficiency. Optimized to run locally and open source, it’s built so you can see a needle in a haystack. Get the code on GitHub. INTEL CORPORATION sponsor

Update on Flet: Python + Flutter UIs Talk Python interviews Feodor Fitsner and they talk about Flet, a Python UI framework that is distributed and executed on the Flutter framework. KENNEDY & FITSNER podcast

Telling Effective Stories With Your Python Visualizations How do you make compelling visualizations that best convey the story of your data? What methods can you employ within popular Python tools to improve your plots and graphs? This week on the show, Matt Harrison returns to discuss his new book “Effective Visualization: Exploiting Matplotlib & Pandas.” REAL PYTHON podcast

Concatenating Strings in Python Efficiently In this video course, you’ll learn how to concatenate strings in Python. You’ll use different tools and techniques for string concatenation, including the concatenation operators and the .join() method. You’ll also explore other tools that can also be handy for string concatenation in Python. REAL PYTHON course

Building a Python Command-Line To-Do App With Typer In this step-by-step video course, you’ll create a to-do application for your command line using Python and Typer. While you build this app, you’ll learn the basics of Typer, a modern and versatile library for building command-line interfaces (CLI). REAL PYTHON course

Adding OpenTelemetry to Django “OpenTelemetry is an open source, vendor-neutral way to add monitoring features to your application.” This post shows you how to set it up and track lots of things in your Django project. JESSICA GARSON

Implicit Casting in Dataframe Concatenation This quick TIL article covers how to do non-strict, vertical concatenation of DataFrames in Polars with the parameter how='vertical'. RODRIGO GIRÃO SERRÃO

Ugly Code and Dumb Things An opinion piece by Armin Ronacher that posits: why ugly and dumb code sometimes blinds engineers from the ingenuity behind it. ARMIN RONACHER

Smoke Testing vs. Sanity Testing Learn the key differences between smoke testing vs sanity testing, their purposes, processes, and when to use them. ANTONELLO ZANINI

FastAPI Deconstructed: Anatomy of an ASGI Framework This article, based on a PyCon APAC talk, covers just what FastAPI does under the hood. RAFIQUL HASAN

Benchmarking Utility for Python Eli attempts to mimic Go’s built-in bench marking capabilities in Python. ELI BENDERSKY

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