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πŸ“‘ Python radar - May 2022

A personal selection of Python-related news and projects that caught my attention this month (note: leading emojis are mine).

πŸ•ΈοΈ Web Scraping with Python: Everything you need to know (scrapingbee.com)
A good resource if you want to automate your web information searches.

πŸ“Š holoviz/panel: A high-level app and dashboarding solution for Python (github.com)
To create nice visualization dashboards with your favorite Python library, a great project.

πŸ“ˆ Forget about Jupyter Notebooks β€” showcase your research using Dashboards (esciencecenter.nl)
A small introduction to another very easy-to-use dashboarding tool that is quite popular right now: Streamlit.

πŸ“š Python Standard Library changes in recent years (antonz.org)
Some useful functions to pick up from this list of changes in Python's standard library since version 3.8.

🎀 The great annual Python event PyCon US 2022 took place earlier this month: the list of talks is available on the conference website (pycon.org) and the videos on their YouTube page (youtube.com).

β˜• The Python GIL: Past, Present, and Future (backblaze.com)
A historical and technical dive to understand Python's famous Global Interpreter Lock, which has always sparked debates. Grab a good coffee.

🐍 GitHub - satwikkansal/wtfpython: What the f*ck Python? 😱 (github.com)
To understand and explore Python through its quirks, quite fun and informative, grab some more coffee.