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Your Python Coding Environment on Windows: Setup Guide With this opinionated guide to setting up a basic, fully featured and flexible setup for Python coding and open source contributing when working from Windows, you’ll go from a fresh install to ready to contribute, and even check out a PowerShell script to automate much of the process. REAL PYTHON

Programming Languages Endorsed for Server-Side Use at Meta Facebook (Meta) shares its internal programming language guidance that helps their developers choose the best language for their projects. Python is used heavily for ML, data science, and Instagram. ERIC GARCIA

Connect, Integrate, & Automate Your Data – From Python or Any Other Application At CData, we simplify connectivity between the application and data sources that power business, making it easier to unlock the value of data. Our SQL-based connectors streamline data access making it easy to access real-time data from on-premise or cloud databases, SaaS, APIs, NoSQL, and Big Data → CDATA SOFTWARE sponsor

Natural Language Processing & How ML Understands Text How do you process and classify text documents in Python? What are the fundamental techniques and building blocks for Natural Language Processing (NLP)? This week on the show, Jodie Burchell, developer advocate for data science at JetBrains, talks about how machine learning (ML) models understand text. REAL PYTHON podcast

Testing PyPy Brian interviews Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick of the PyPy project and they talk about how to test the alternative Python implementation. CARL FRIEDRICH BOLZ-TEREICK podcast

Performance Comparison: Python, C/C++, Rust, and More Ben Hoyt’s article Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust is making the rounds again. It prompted this deep discussion on Hacker News. HACKER NEWS

Primer on Jinja Templating With Jinja, you can build rich templates that power the front end of your web applications. But you can use Jinja without a web framework running in the background. Anytime you want to create text files with programmatic content, Jinja can help you out. REAL PYTHON

How to Support Open-Source Software and Stay Sane When researchers develop code for their projects it often gets released as Open Source. There is extra work involved in this though. This article talks about what you need to think about before releasing that code. ANNA NOWOGRODZKI

Scout APM: Find and Fix Performance Issues with Ease Scout’s APM tool pinpoints and prioritizes performance and stability issues in Python applications. With Scout’s tracing logic, developers can detect the exact line of code causing the performance abnormality, and with detailed backtraces, you can fix the issue before customers ever notice → SCOUT APM sponsor

Understanding Pass by Reference in Python “Python, in general, is a pass-by-reference language. What does that really mean and what do you need to look out for?” Learn how this impacts your code, where you can run into trouble, and what to do about it. BAS STEINS

Add Google Login to a FastAPI App With EasyAuth Learn how to setup Google authentication for a FastAPI application and control what new users can access with granular User, Group, Role and Action level permissions. JOSHUA JAMISON • Shared by Joshua Jamison

Managing Attributes With Python’s property() In this video course, you’ll learn how to create managed attributes, also known as properties, using Python’s property() in your custom classes. REAL PYTHON course

Building a Spotify Song and Playlist Recommendation Engine Follow along to learn how to build a song and playlist recommendation app using Python, Word2Vec, PySpark, Tensorflow and MongoDB. RACHELLE PALMER • Shared by Rachelle Palmer