This Week in Python

Fri, March 4, 2022

This Week in Python is a concise reading list about what happened in the past week in the Python universe.

Python Articles

• Python Benchmarks – A list of benchmarks of different Python implementations.
• Python Debugging With Pdb – pdb is the Python debugger of its standard library. Here is a tutorial on how to use it.
• Peculiar Self-References – Fun with Python's list. a = a[0] = [0] makes a list self-referential with some interesting implications.
• Mocking in Python Has Never Been Easier – Using pytest's Mock Generator to simplify your test writing.
• Github Issues Migration is coming soon – The Python core team decided to move all issues to the GitHub project.

Projects

• miniboss – miniboss is a Python application for locally running a collection of interdependent docker services
• The Algorithms - Python – A collection of Computer Science Algorithms in Python
• FastAPI – Not particularly new, but still a hot candidate for building RESTful web services: FastAPI
• rich – A lot of Twitter buzz about this excellent terminal library
• pyTermTk – A toolkit for building interactive terminal applications