Princeton Python User Group

July links and updates

Date: Monday, July 11th @ 7pm

Agenda to be announced!

We haven't put together the agenda for the next meeting yet, but here's what we're thinking...

Future meetings will include talks on:

• data visualization in Pandas
• crash courses in deep learning
• learn python from scratch
• Embrace error: how error foo can advance your coding, and beyond!

• "Future of Coding" explores automated transformation of source code.
• "Demysti-py" looks at how familiar constructs are implemented.
• "Pythonic pitfalls" improves both your code and your fundamentals.
• "Deep reading" explores and applies academic articles on deep learning.
• "New tool roundup" by our resident code hound keeps you updated.

Links:

• Armin Ronacher's blog
  • creator of Flask & Lektor (mentioned in June meeting)
• I/O Press
  • Everything is an Object
    • Highly recommend this one! A plain & succinct review of Python. A sorely lacking open-minded, positive examination of OOP & dynamic typing.
  • Everything is Data
    • Will start reading this shortly, perhaps finish before the meeting
• The strange relationship between objects, functions, generators and coroutines
  • the code snippets seem to be broken ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  • this kind of review of Python fundamentals is done much better in Everything is an Object
  • functions are objects, but not all objects are functions
    • how to make objects act like functions (__call__)
  • "The alternative, if functions were not objects, would be to create a bunch of classes that have a single method with an uninformative name like execute and pass those around instead."
  • generators allow us to maintain state between calls (a plain function could do this cause they're objects!)
  • PEP-492: Differences from generators
  • "This happens to me nearly every time I try to use coroutines. I keep refactoring and simplifying it until I discover that coroutines are making my code less, not more, readable. Unless I am explicitly modeling a state-transition system or trying to do asynchronous work using the terrific asyncio library (which wraps all the possible craziness with StopIteration, cascading exceptions, etc), I rarely find that coroutines are the right tool for the job. That doesn’t stop me from attempting them though, because they are fun."
• The Animated Elliptic Curve
• Simon Willison
  • Bundling binary tools in Python wheels
  • Simon Willison's TIL feed
• Chopping the monolith
• Stop writing classes
• Six things I do every time I start a Django project
• "There are ✨no open issues or pull requests on Flask ✨, a framework downloaded 75 million times in the last month."
• Browser hacking: Let's make a Linux GUI for the SerenityOS browser engine
  • amazing live-coding session making a Qt app, a browser!
• Faster JetBrains IDEs with shared indexes
• What color is your function?