Python

Python ist my programming language of choice. I like its simplicity, readability and that the standard library includes so much usefull stuff. And if you need something special, propably someone build it already - just search on pypi.

This here is a small list of articles I should (re)read or that are interesting in some way or another.

general

• asome python: A curated list of python projects and libraries. Search here before heading to pypi, github or the duck
• python cheatsheet: a collection of cheat sheets for python
• flit: My favorite build tool
• click: CLIs simplified

standard library

• entry points explained: well, not really standard lib, but also included
• a guide to logging in python: I reread this regularly and still forget about the details of python logging m(.
• pdb how to use the build-in debugger for python

things i should use but often forget

• chardet: Character encoding auto-detection in Python.
• decouple: Get parameters from the environment
• ftfy: The goal of ftfy is to take in bad Unicode and output good Unicode
• loguru: Python logging made (stupidly) simple
• pendulum: Python datetimes made easy
• tqdm: Add a progress meter to your loops in a second

pyramid and other web stuff

• awsome pyramid: another curated list, this time for pyramid
• passlib: Password hashing library
• pyramid: for me, the web application framework of choice
• fastapi: a modern, fast, asynchronous web framework
• uwsgi: wsgi application server.

data exploration, etc.

• data visualization in python: Compares matplotlib, pandas, seaborn, ggplot and altair. Funny read.
• reshaping data in pandas: short tutorial on pandas stack, pivot and other data frame functions

talks, presentations, etc.

• PyConDE: Youtube channel of the German python conference

assorted stuff

• asynchronous programming in python: well, the title says it all.
• background: Runs things in the background.
• geopy: geocoding library for python with multiple backends
• mistletoe: A fast, extensible Markdown parser in pure Python. Might be a replacement for mistune
• pyinstaller:PyInstaller is a program that freezes (packages) Python programs into stand-alone executables, under Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris and AIX.
• python-phonenumbers: Python port of Google's libphonenumber. I don't know if I'll ever use it. But there is this one project (as usual)

old stuff, that I'm now more or less used to

• pathlib: I need to get used to this. So much cleaner than os.path