📡 Python radar - July-August 2022

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

🤖 Practical Deep Learning for Coders (course.fast.ai)
A complete and free course (with a free associated book) to practice various DL/ML techniques using PyTorch and fast.ai.

🧩 Recipes and Tricks for Effective Structural Pattern Matching in Python (martinheinz.dev)
A series of examples for advanced use of Python's Pattern Matching mechanism (a.k.a. a very advanced switch/case) introduced in Python 3.10.

🦦 You Should Be Using Python's Walrus Operator - Here's Why (martinheinz.dev)
The same author takes on the walrus operator (this thing -> :=) introduced in Python 3.8, which allows you to assign a value to a variable in the middle of an expression. My take: use it in moderation.

📈 Modin: Scale your pandas workflow by changing a single line of code (modin.readthedocs.io)
In a not-so-great video that I’ll spare you the link to, I discovered this project that could speed up your pandas computations via dask or ray by changing just one line of code, the pandas import line. Worth testing.

🎨 Stable Diffusion with 🧨 Diffusers (huggingface.co)
You write a sentence and a program generates a beautiful image out of nowhere that represents what you wrote. This is what Stable Diffusion, the latest "text-to-image" model available for free, offers, and this blog post helps you discover and understand it. Stunning.

🔤 Python String Methods to Know (pythonmorsels.com)
As the name suggests, here are some details on the main string manipulation methods to know. There are a couple of lesser-known ones that could be useful to you.