Python Programming Language

See also : Python3

• Solving the Water Jug Problem from Die Hard 3 with TLA+ and Hypothesis
• Writing beautiful intelligent python – talk by Raymond Hettinger in Pycon 2015.
• profiling - Python profiler. HN; Aug 2015
• vprof - Visual Profiler; flame charts, memory usage etc.,
• Pyparallel – “An experimental, proof-of-concept fork of Python 3 designed to optimally exploit multiple CPU cores, fast SSDs, NUMA architectures and 10Gb+ Ethernet networks. Removes the limitation of the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) without needing to remove it at all.”
• Replacing Python: Candidates. A survey of various languages while keeping these considerations in mind: speed, binary compatibility, safety, diagnostics, ease of writing, shared libs, static typing, bounds of privilege, mutability, C interoperability and asynchronous code. OCaml appears to be the winner. This is written by the author of 0install.
• Setting up Emacs for python development including Pymacs, pyflakes, pep8, python-mode.el, python.el etc.,. Pymacs has detailed documentation (31pp) on their website.
• Python Tips – Intermediate Python
• Nov 2015; Python for High performance scintific computing (disussion)
• Python: Generators, Coroutines, Native Coroutines and async/await | Abu Ashraf Masnun -Parallelizing a Python Function for the Extremely Lazy - tdhopper.com
• The Little Book of Python Anti-Patterns — Python Anti-Patterns documentation

Books

Intermediate Python – “Fluent python” by Luciano Ramalho.

Learning sources

• Tiny-Python-3.6-Notebook/python.rst at master · mattharrison/Tiny-Python-3.6-Notebook

“This repository contains the text for the Tiny Python 3.6 Notebook. it is a notebook containing curated examples for Python 3 as well as the new features found in Python 3.6.”

Debugging

• Debugging cpython with gdb

Multiprocessing

• Stabbing yourself with a fork() in a multiprocessing.Pool full of sharks

Sublime Text

• Flake8Lint is infuriating but important plugin for sublime text. Flake8 Rules

Alternate Python implementations

• Zippy ; Slides, paper

To Install Zippy:

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/ssllab/zippy
cd zippy
TBD

Libraries

• Deciphering Glyph :: Python Packaging Is Good Now; August 2016.
• Cookiecutter – A command-line utility that creates projects from cookie cutters (project templates). See Example using cookie cutter for pandoc presentations.
• Python modules you should know
• 20 Python Libraries You Aren’t Using (But Should) [PDF] by Caleb Hattingh on O’Reilly.
• Peep. A “pip install” that is cryptographically guaranteed repeatable
• imutils – A series of convenience functions to make basic image processing operations such as translation, rotation, resizing, skeletonization, and displaying Matplotlib images easier with OpenCV and Python.
• The Python Graph Gallery – Visualizing data – with Python
• Getting the Most out of Sqlite3 with Python; See dataset and apsw.
• mahmoud/awesome-python-applications: 💿 Free software that works great, which also happens to be open-source Python.

Data science libraries

• agate 1.6.0 — agate 1.6.0 documentation
• dataset: databases for lazy people
• Python Itertools: For a faster and memory efficient code – Kanoki

Conferences

• PyData (NYC 2013).
• Videos.

Python3

• The key differences between Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x with examples
• “the not-so-simple intricacies of Python2->Python3” - oilshell comments on Python 3 and Firefox 57 (an observation)

Pypy

• PyPy Status Blog: The First 15 Years of PyPy — a Personal Retrospective

Package management etc.,

• Python Project Tooling explained — chobeat; Apr 2019. lobste.rs

  • Poetry
  • Pipsi
  • pyenv

• Use pew, not virtualenvwrapper, for Python virtualenvs

• Use twine, and wheel.

• Follow the packaging tutorial

• Use TestPyPi
• Short summary of commands:

python setup.py sdist
python setup.py bdist_wheel
twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*