Python/FastAPI/Django – Weekly News Summary – 30/12/2024 to 05/01/2025
#Medium Django Developers, Stop Using .first() for Unique Queries — Here’s Why! When working with Django’s ORM, efficiency and clarity are key to writing maintainable and performant code. One common pitfall among… By Alwin Vazhappilly | Dec 30, 2024 Say Goodbye to Requirements.txt: Next-Level Dependency Management for Django 🚀 The traditional requirements.txt file has long been the cornerstone of Python project dependency management, particularly in Django… By Sanjay Prajapati | Jan 01, 2025 12 Python Libraries for Free Market Data That Everyone Should Know Access to accurate and timely market data is crucial for traders, financial analysts, and data scientists. Whether you are building a… By DataScience Nexus | Jan 02, 2025 Demand Forecasting with Darts: A Tutorial A hands-on tutorial with Python and Darts for demand forecasting, showcasing the power of TiDE and TFT By Sandra E.G. | Jan 03, 2025 🚀 Best Practices for Structuring a Django Project Are you struggling to organize your Django projects? 😓 Let’s make your life easier! In this article, I’ll introduce you to a Django… By Azeem Akhtar | Jan 03, 2025 Data Science All Algorithm Cheatsheet 2025 Stories, strategies, and secrets to choosing the perfect algorithm. By Ritesh Gupta | Jan 05, 2025 #PyCoders Issue #662 – Top 5 of 2024, Ninja, Deploying on AWS, and More By – | Dec 31, 2024 #Adam Johnson – Blogs Python: create temporary files and directories in unittest Sometimes, tests need temporary files or directories. You can do this in Python’s unittest with the standard library tempfile module. Let’s look at some recipes to do so within individual tests and setUp(). By Adam Johnson | Dec 30, 2024 Python: spy for changes with Python 3.12 introduced sys.monitoring, a new framework for “monitoring” tools like debuggers and profilers to hook into. It provides fine-grained control so tools can listen only to certain events on specific lines of code. The framework came from PEP 669, thanks to Mark Shannon of the Faster CPython team. By Adam Johnson | Dec 30, 2024 Git: undo a pull Okay, so you just ran git pull on a branch, and something broke, so you want to undo it. Here are two ways how. By Adam Johnson | Dec 31, 2024 Python: debug unraisable exceptions with Rich Take this Python class: By Adam Johnson | Jan 02, 2025 Git: force colourization with By default, Git only colourizes in its output when writing to an interactive terminal. Sometimes, this heuristic isn’t accurate, for example, when you’re piping Git output through another command. In such cases, you can force colourization on or off with either the color.ui configuration option or the –color option. Let’s look at both in turn. By Adam Johnson | Jan 03, 2025 #Hashnode Virtual Environments in Python A Comprehensive Guide to Python Virtual Environments Managing dependencies is a critical part of modern software development, especially in Python projects. A Python virtual environment is an essential tool that enables developers to isolate project … By TARPARA KAUSHAL | Dec 30, 2024 Why Python is Essential for DevOps Engineers In today’s software development world, many programming languages are used for making software, solving real-world problems, creating games, and more. As DevOps engineers, we enter the world of automation, always creating CI/CD pipelines to deploy ou… By Amit Maurya | Dec 30, 2024 Why Python Remains the Most Popular Language for Data Science Python has been a dominant programming language in the realm of Data Science for years. Its simplicity, versatility, and extensive ecosystem of libraries have made it a go-to choice for data scientists and analysts worldwide. But what exactly sets Py… By Muskan | Dec 30, 2024 Buildfy GUI: Revolutionizing Python GUI Development with CustomTkinter As Python developers, we know the power of building robust, dynamic applications. However, creating modern graphical user interfaces (GUIs) can sometimes feel like an uphill battle—especially when you're dealing with outdated frameworks or battling w… By Proxlight | Dec 30, 2024 How I added support for nested functions in Python bytecode I wanted to share some pretty cool stuff I’ve been learning about Python bytecode with you, including how I added support for nested functions, but my guy at the printing press said I needed to keep it under 500 words. It’s a holiday week, he shrugge… By Jones Beach | Dec 30, 2024 Java vs Python – Everything You Need to Know! Python and Java are two of the most well-known programming languages. Their cross-platform compatibility is outstanding, and their libraries are rather broad. But that's about all the commonalities. To find out how Python differs from Java, you shoul… By Jenifer | Dec 30, 2024 Effortless River Dynamics Analysis: Mastering Flood Modeling with Just 30 Lines of Python In the realm of spatial analysis, understanding river dynamics is crucial for effective flood management and environmental conservation. But what if you could conduct a comprehensive analysis with minimal code? In this guide, I’ll show you how to har… By Ken Mathenge | Dec 30, 2024 Building a Multi-threaded Proxy Server in Python: A Deep Dive Introduction In today's interconnected digital landscape, proxy servers form the backbone of modern web infrastructure. They act as crucial intermediaries, managing and controlling network traffic between users and the vast expanse of the internet. B… By Ashutosh Rath | Dec 30, 2024 What Clean Code Really Means? I think there's quite some misconception about what writing clean code really means. Here's my take on what clean code isn't and what it is: What isn't really clean code: Code formatting: Clean code is barely about proper indentation, spacing and fo… By Dauda Kolo | Dec 30, 2024 Use data contracts to automate data workflows – part 2 Preface📖 In part 1, we explained what a data contract is why we need them, and what a typical one contains In this blog, we dive into a demo to explore how they actually work so we can process data safer, faster and effectively. Goal🎯 The data… By Stephen David-Williams | Dec 30, 2024 Automating