~pycoders | Issue #625 (April 16, 2024) (29)

Pydantic: Simplifying Data Validation in Python Discover the power of Pydantic, Python’s most popular data parsing, validation, and serialization library. In this hands-on tutorial, you’ll learn how to make your code more robust, trustworthy, and easier to debug with Pydantic. REAL PYTHON

Best Python Security Practices for Web Developers Coding on the web means you have to be more security conscious as everyone has access to your software. This article discusses key steps you can take to help make your code more secure. ARJAN

Python Error and Performance Monitoring That Doesn’t Suck With Sentry, you can trace issues from the frontend to the backend—detecting slow and broken code, to fix what’s broken faster. Installing the Python SDK is super easy and PyCoder’s Weekly subscribers get three full months of the team plan. Just use code “pycoder” on signup → SENTRY sponsor

The State of Python in 2024 Michael of TalkPython fame gave this keynote at PyCon Philippines. He addresses topics such as Python trends in code, asyncio, Flask and Django, getting rid of the GIL and more. MICHAEL KENNEDY video

Optimizing Django’s System Check Framework “Django’s system check framework provides fantastic protection for configuration mishaps. It’s like a targeted linter that runs when you start Django commands.” It also can be a bit slow for large projects. As part of the Django 5.1 release many optimizations have been applied. This blog posts discusses the work involved. ADAM JOHNSON

A Lazy and Flippant Classification of Programming Languages “When talking flippantly about programming languages, it’s sometimes useful to glob a bunch of them together based on characteristics, whether superficial or not. This started with jokes about common features of ‘P languages’ like Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript and Ruby, but you can classify other languages too.” BRYCE KERLEY

Generating QR Codes With Python In this video course, you’ll learn how to use Python to generate QR codes, from your standard black-and-white QR codes to beautiful ones with your favorite colors. You’ll learn how to format QR codes, rotate them, and even replace the static background with moving images. REAL PYTHON course

So Your Teacher Wants You to Do Open Source Sometimes teachers or mentors ask students to contribute to an open source project, without the context of what that entails. This opinion piece covers just how much noise that causes for the projects and why you shouldn’t do it unless you truly mean to contribute. DAVID LORD

Adventures in Import-Land Ashlynn ran into a problem where her code was initializing a connection to the Google Cloud API before the credentials for it had been imported. This blog post covers the problem and how she got around it. ASHLYNN ANTROBUS

503 Days Working Full-Time on FOSS: Lessons Learned For a year and a half, Rodrigo worked at Textualize the company behind the popular open source Python projects Rich and Textual. This blog post talks about what he learned while he was there. RODRIGO GIRÃO SERRÃO

Python F-String Codes I Use Every Day Like many of us, Pawel uses f-strings a lot. Even with frequent use, it can be hard to remember how the formatting syntax works. This post covers some of the more common formats around. PAWEL JASTRZEBSKI

Clean Code in Python What’s it mean to write clean code? What is clean Python code, specifically? This article talks about how to write code that is easier to read and the tools you can use to get there. NIK TOMAZIC

Predicting Solar Eclipses With Python Were you in the path of the eclipse last week? Would you like to figure out if you’ll be in the next one? This article shows you how using the Astropy library. ERIK BERNHARDSSON

Video Subtitling With Whisper, FFmpeg, and Python This guide walks you through transcribing video using the OpenAI Whisper model and seamlessly adding subtitles with FFmpeg tool. EDITFRAME