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Build a Tic-Tac-Toe Game With Python and Tkinter In this step-by-step project, you’ll learn how to create a tic-tac-toe game using Python and the Tkinter GUI framework. Tkinter is cross-platform and is available in the Python standard library. Creating a game in Python is a great and fun way to learn something new and exciting! REAL PYTHON

Six Things I Do Every Time I Start a Django Project When you start a new Django project you have some housekeeping tasks and some decisions to make. This article talks about some of the key things you might want to do when starting a new project. BRENTON CLEELAND

Get Started: Infrastructure as Code With Python on AWS [Workshop] In this on-demand workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of Infrastructure as Code through a series of guided exercises. You will be introduced to Pulumi, an infrastructure as code platform, where you can use Python to provision modern cloud infrastructure → PULUMI sponsor

Should You Use AsyncIO for Your Next Web Application? Python’s AsyncIO web ecosystem continues to mature, but should you build your next production application with one of these shiny new frameworks such as FastAPI, Starlette, or Quart? STEVEN PATE • Shared by Steven Pate

How to Patch requests to Have a Default Timeout Python’s requests provides the ability to timeout when fetching content, but it isn’t turned on by default. If you’ve got a large code base there is a chance you have a call that could hang forever. This article describes how to monkeypatch requests to provide default timeout capabilities. ADAM JOHNSON

Python mmap: Doing File I/O With Memory Mapping In this video course, you’ll learn how to use Python’s mmap module to improve your code’s performance when you’re working with files. You’ll get a quick overview of the different types of memory before diving into how and why memory mapping with mmap can make your file I/O operations faster. REAL PYTHON course

The subprocess Module: Wrapping Programs With Python In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to leverage other apps and programs that aren’t Python, wrapping them or launching them from your Python scripts using the subprocess module. You’ll learn about processes all the way up to interacting with a process as it executes. REAL PYTHON

Don’t Let Dicts Spoil Your Code The dict is the go-to data structure for Python programmers, but its loose relationship to the data can be problematic in large data streams. Learn more about why you might choose a different data structure and when. ROMAN IMANKULOV

String translate and maketrans Methods The str methods translate and maketrans are lesser used, but helpful. You can use translate to replace characters in a string using a translation map, and maketrans helps you to build those maps. RODRIGO GIRÃO SERRÃO

3 Things to Know Before Building With PyScript PyScript is a browser-embedded python environment built on top of Pyodide. Although it is a powerful tool, there are some things you need to be careful with. Read on to find out more. BRADEN RIGGS

How Can You Emulate Do-While Loops in Python? In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to emulate do-while loops in Python. The most common technique to do this is to create an infinite while loop with a conditional statement that controls the loop and jumps out of it using a break statement. REAL PYTHON

6 Usage Patterns for the ThreadPoolExecutor in Python The ThreadPoolExecutor gives a lot of power an flexibility for concurrent code. This article describes six different patterns that can be used when coding with this context manager. JASON BROWNLEE

Python Lazy Imports With Cinder Instagram has implemented a lazy import mechanism to improve application loading times. This article describes why they built it and how it helps. GERMÁN MÉNDEZ BRAVO

Objects, Functions, Generators, and Coroutines Although different concepts, objects, functions, generators, and coroutines can be used almost interchangeably because of Python’s dynamic nature. Learn more about how these mechanisms are related and how to switch between them. DUSTY PHILLIPS

Combining Data in pandas With concat() and merge() In this video course, you’ll learn two techniques for combining data in pandas: merge() and concat(). Combining Series and DataFrame objects in pandas is a powerful way to gain new insights into your data. REAL PYTHON course

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Getting Lazy With Python Imports and PEP 690 Talk Python interviews all three authors involved in PEP 690, a proposal to add the ability to delay library importation until time of use. KENNEDY, MEYER, BRAVO, & WARSAW podcast

Build Your Python Project Documentation With MkDocs In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build professional documentation for a Python package using MkDocs and mkdocstrings. These tools allow you to generate nice-looking and modern documentation from Markdown files and, more importantly, from your code’s docstrings. REAL PYTHON

Getting the Stack Trace of a Running Python Program “I recently wanted to examine a multi-threaded Python program, which took a long time to complete, appeared to be stuck, and even crashed occasionally. I was hoping to get the stack trace.” Peter shares the code that solved his problem and how to test with it. PETER KOGAN

Getting Started in Python Cybersecurity and Forensics Are you interested in a career in security using Python? Would you like to stay ahead of potential vulnerabilities in your Python applications? This week on the show, James Pleger talks about Python information security, incident response, and forensics. REAL PYTHON podcast

Tools To Visualize Your Data and System State This overview covers a variety of tools for visualizing data formats such as JSON, regexes, SQL, and Git history. If that’s not enough, it then goes on to describe tools to better understand your Docker and Kubernetes configurations. MARTIN HEINZ

Python Logging: Do’s and Don’ts Python’s logging library can be a daunting to new users, with lots of options and configuration. Learn more about some key things you should and shouldn’t do when using logger. PALKEO

Utilising Caching in Your Django Applications Minimizing the number of database calls can have significant performance impacts. Learn about select_related and prefetch_related and how they can improve your Django code. MARK WALKER

Illustrating the Duality of Closures and Objects In functional programming languages, closures are used for similar purposes to classes in object oriented languages. Python supports both, learn more about how they compare. JONATHAN E. MAGEN

Get Started With This PyCharm Debugging Tutorial From Rookout Need to hit the ground running with a new app in a cool IDE? This tutorial will cover an example of debugging Python in PyCharm, the pros and cons of “remote debugging,” and where a tool like Rookout fills in the gaps on syncing with source code. ROOKOUT sponsor

Create Dashboards From Jupyter Notebooks This article shows you how to transform a Jupyter Notebook with stock information into a web-based dashboard using the Mercury framework. ALEKSANDRA PŁOŃSKA

A Beginner’s Guide to CI/CD and Automation on GitHub “CI/CD and workflow automation are native capabilities on GitHub platform. Here’s how to start using them and speed up your workflows.” THE GITHUB BLOG