JC’s Python News & Notes – July 2020
This is a place for me to save Python related news, notes and code snippets that I find interesting. One post per month updated throughout. This is experimental, I hope I can find enough time to keep these posts going.
Last Updated: 7/13/2020
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PEP616
Adds two new methods, removeprefix() and removesuffix(), to the APIs of Python’s various string objects.
Link: python.org
SciPy 2020 videos available on YouTube
- SciPy 2020 General Track – YouTube Playlist
- SciPy 2020 Machine Learning – YouTube Playlist
- SciPy 2020 High Performance Python – YouTube Playlist
Python 3.9.0b4 released
Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0b4, is the fourth of five planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to support the new feature release.
Link: Python.org
EuroPython 2020 is July 23-26
pdpipe – Easy pipelines for pandas dataframes
https://github.com/pdpipe/pdpipe
Synapse – batteries included intelligence analysis platform
https://synapse.docs.vertex.link/en/latest/synapse/intro.html
Build an instagram bot with InstaPy
https://dev.to/japneet121/instagram-bot-using-python-4a54
side-by-side fastapi vs flask code examples
https://amitness.com/2020/06/fastapi-vs-flask/
Add fastapi like api docs to a flask project with instant_api
https://github.com/alexmojaki/instant_api
Google Colab Tips for Power Users
https://amitness.com/2020/06/google-colaboratory-tips/
Chrome extension that adds “open in Google Colab” links to github repos
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/open-in-colab/iogfkhleblhcpcekbiedikdehleodpjo
Microsoft releases pylance extension for vscode
Pylance is a new language server that focuses on performance. It adds some new features including Type Checking and Auto-Import Pylance replaces the existing “Python Language Server” released in 2018.
To install Pylance, Open the VSCode Extensions Marketplace and search for “pylance”. Install the extension and restart VSCode. Open any .py file and a prompt to enable Pylance will appear in the lower right corner.
Links: Microsoft Blog | GitHub
LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor (51515) will support Python
The 5-in-1 set was announced in June 2020 and will support programming from Windows, Mac, iOS and Android Tablets. Programs can be written using Scratch or Python.
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