Python recap for week 16/2024

From 15/4/2024 to 21/4/2024

Articles #

• Meta Used Monolithic Architecture Using Python to Ship Threads in Only Five Months 163 comments in 2 discussions

• A proof-of-concept Python executable built on Cosmopolitan Libc (2021) 161 comments in 3 discussions

• I made a web app using Flask that converts YouTube videos into step-by-step tutorial guides 136 comments in 3 discussions

• Ruff v0.4.0: a hand-written recursive descent parser for Python 72 comments in 2 discussions

• Friday Daily Thread: r/Python Meta and Free-Talk Fridays 62 comments in 17 discussions

• Announcing py2wasm: A Python to Wasm compiler 51 comments in 2 discussions

• Achieve true parallelism in Python 3.12 32 comments in 1 discussion

• Python Chart Examples 25 comments in 1 discussion

• An unbiased evaluation of Python environment and packaging tools (2023) 24 comments in 2 discussions

• Understanding State Machines in Python Through a Practical Example 22 comments in 1 discussion

• The Design of Everyday APIs 19 comments in 2 discussions

• 9 Python Built-In Decorators That Optimize Your Code Significantly 19 comments in 2 discussions

• I Cannot Get My Head Around Testing 13 comments in 2 discussions

• Type information for faster Python C extensions 10 comments in 2 discussions

• Python PEP 744 – JIT Compilation 10 comments in 2 discussions

Releases #

• gcloud-lite lightweight Google Cloud Platform CLI distro 4 comments in 1 discussion

• python-lxns 0.1.0 released - Python library to interact with linux namespaces

• Horus v1.2.1 Released! (An OSINT / digital forensics tool built in Python - formerly 'Sentinel')

• UXsim 1.1.1 released: Significantly increased performance for the network traffic flow simulator

Projects #

• Show HN: Horus – An OSINT / digital forensics tool built in Python 22 comments in 3 discussions

• Toy python to x86 compiler now works with libc calls -- simple example shown 21 comments in 1 discussion

• Cool small program to compile toy python to x86 asm 8 comments in 2 discussions

• Not Found The requested URL was not found on the server 5 comments in 1 discussion

• motsmeles - word search generator 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Heavy Stack - Top to Bottom Python, Dev Container, Hot Reloading, More 3 comments in 1 discussion

• django-admin-shellx: A Django Admin Web Shell using Xterm.js and Django Channels. 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: MyFirst Rust Project: Finding unused Python packages 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Clerk React Django 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Clouddrift (Python lib) – 170 years of Cyclone Track Data

Videos #

• Scaling Django Channels when calling third party api 7 comments in 1 discussion

• Django Made Easy - 4-Hour Tutorial for Beginners 4 comments in 2 discussions

• Zen of Python as Gregorian Chants [video]

• Zen of Python – Reggeaton Version [video]