All Python 2023 conference talks, Python Gotcha: strip, lstrip, rstrip and more

Hatch v1.10.0 released, OTEL SDK, Python Dataclass vs. Attrs vs. Pydantic with some more interesting articles, packages and projects

May 11, 2024

Hatch v1.10.0 released

Hatch v1.10.0 brings a test command, support for UV, and a Python script runner.

PyCA cryptography 42.0.7 released

Note that the next version won’t be tested on Windows 7 and also wheels for the next release will not be supported.

Articles

All Python 2023 conference talks by techtalksweekly.substack.com

Python 2023 Conference Talks YouTube links are available in Google Sheets. Thanks to techtalksweekly.substack.com for curating it.

# Tech Talks Weekly

Python Gotcha: strip, lstrip, rstrip can remove more than expected

When you use strip functions to remove strings or characters other than space just be careful. In this article, Andrew Wegner took one example and explained it.

# Andrew Wegner

OTEL SDK - Blog by Roman Glushko

Roman Glushko explained what is under the hood of OpenTelemetry Python SDK. With this article, you will have more idea of the tracing world also what are metrics, traces & logs, How they get collected & etc. It's a long article, but it will give you a better idea of the observability side.

# Roman Glushko

Python Dataclass vs. Attrs vs. Pydantic: Defining a Class

In Python, there are multiple ways to define classes. 3 popular are pydantic, dataclasses, attrs. In this article, Lu Zhenna covered them and also the main differences between them with respect to type validation, positional arguments & mutability.

# Lu Zhenna

Meet the NiceGUI: Your Soon-to-be Favorite Python UI Library

Good contenders are coming for Streamlit. NiceGUI is one of them. Youness Mansar covered it with good examples and showed especially how good it is with respect to interactions(callbacks) & state management.

# Youness Mansar

The Python PDF Ecosystem in 2024

Martin Thoma covered the Python PDF ecosystem with good research. He shed light on the problems like many of the popular ones not active right now which developers should be aware of. It's worth reading and articles like these give me confidence that I am heading in the right direction by putting time into building piptrends.com.

# Martin Thoma

Master Django ORM Advanced Concepts

Many people write SQL queries all over the project by complaining that we can’t write complex queries using ORMs. But that’s not true in many cases. Ashutosh Singh covered several of them from intermediate to advanced related to Django ORM.