~pycoders | Issue #611 (Jan. 9, 2024) (24)

How to Get the Current Time in Python In this video course, you’ll be getting the current time in Python. You’ll get your hands on a datetime object that represents the current time. You’ll see how to format it according to international standards, and you’ll even check out how computers represent time. REAL PYTHON course

Using a Markov Chain to Generate Readable Nonsense Describes a simple Markov chain algorithm to generate reasonable-sounding but utterly nonsensical text, and presents some example outputs as well as a Python implementation in only 20 lines of code. BEN HOYT

End-to-End Data Science Workflows: ML Workflows With Python Learn Machine Learning workflow with Python & Posit Team in this insightful video. Starting with an example classification model, through design, development, deployment, & maintenance, learn from our experience with thousands of enterprise customers → POSIT sponsor

Top Python Libraries of 2023 Tryolab’s 9th annual Top Python libraries list. Loads of LLM stuff this time around, not surprisingly. DESCOINS & ALFARO

Efficient Inequality Joins in Pandas Joins in Pandas are equality based. However, there are other scenarios that require joins on inequality or a combination of equi and non-equi joins. Usually in Pandas this is executed via a Cartesian join which can be inefficient as well as memory intensive. This article shows an efficient way to handle inequality joins in Pandas. SAMUEL ORANYELI • Shared...

2023 Real Python Tutorial & Video Course Wrap-Up Three members of the Real Python team are joining us this week: Kate Finegan, Tappan Moore, and Philipp Acsany. We wanted to share a year-end wrap-up with tutorials, step-by-step projects, code conversations, and video courses that showcase what our team created in 2023. REAL PYTHON podcast

Advice for New Devs Who’ve Read Other Advice Essays After reading some programming advice posts, this author decided a lot of them concentrated on the wrong things. Here is his own take. Associated HN discussion. HILLEL WAYNE

Building a Bootstrap Styled Form in Vanilla Django When playing with django-crispy-forms, David wondered what it would take to build a Bootstrap 5 form in Django without any third party libraries. This article outlines the work involved. DAVID SMITH

Where Have You Installed Your Python Packages? This article introduces virtual environments and what it means to run pip install. It includes information about the sys module and variables it uses to look for your packages. KE PI

How to Use Python in Excel Natively How to use Python in Excel natively using libraries like Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn and more for analysis and spectacular charts. Includes a cheat sheet. MYNDA TREACY

My Proof-of-Concept Record Type As part of a conversation as to whether Python should include a struct-like syntax, Brett has created a project. This post outlines the proof-of-concept. BRETT CANNON

Python Rgonomics If you’re coming to Python from R, this article outlines some libraries that have an R-like feel, helping you make the transition to Pythonic workflows. EMILY RIEDERER

10 Things Software Developers Should Learn About Learning Developers want and need to perpetually learn. Needing to learn and knowing how are two different things though, and this article highlights key ideas to teach yourself how to learn better. BROWN, HERMANS, & MARGULIEUX

Don’t Use Python’s @property A quick opinion piece on the over-use of the @property decorator and how it can lead to misunderstandings in your code. JAMES BENNETT

10 Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2023 This article is a compilation of 10 noteworthy AI research papers of 2023. SEBASTIAN RASCHKA