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PyCoder's Weekly 2023 Wrap Up
Description
It’s been a fascinating year for the Python language and community. PyCoder’s Weekly included over 1,500 links to articles, blog posts, tutorials, and projects in 2023. Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week to help wrap up everything by sharing some highlights and Python trends from across the year.
Christopher shares the top five links explored by PyCoder’s readers. We also dig into trends we noticed across all the articles and stories this year, including removing dead batteries from the standard library, continuing the effort to speed up Python, using Rust code in libraries, and moving away from microservices.
We hope you enjoy this review! We look forward to bringing you an upcoming year full of great Python news, articles, topics, and projects.
Course Spotlight: Python Basics: Building Systems With Classes
In this video course, you’ll learn how to work with classes to build complex systems in Python. By composing classes, inheriting from other classes, and overriding class behavior, you’ll harness the power of object-oriented programming (OOP).
Topics:
- 00:00:00 – Introduction
- 00:02:21 – Python 3.13.0 Alpha 2 Is Now Available
- 00:02:46 – Welcoming the Supporting Developer in Residence
- 00:03:25 – Django 5.0 Released
- 00:03:34 – Django Ninja 1.0 Released
- 00:04:11 – Top Five PyCoder Links
- 00:05:00 – Python 3.12: Cool New Features for You to Try
- 00:05:27 – Speeding Up Your Code When Multiple Cores Aren’t an Option
- 00:05:46 – Learning About Code Metrics in Python With Radon
- 00:06:07 – Python 3.12 Preview: More Intuitive and Consistent F-Strings
- 00:06:28 – Design and Guidance: Object-Oriented Programming in Python
- 00:07:49 – Python 3.12: What Didn’t Make the Headlines
- 00:11:34 – Python 3.13 Removes 20 Stdlib Modules
- 00:13:32 – Missing Batteries: Essential Libraries You’re Missing Out On
- 00:16:21 – More Batteries Please
- 00:19:19 – Three Python Trends in 2023
- 00:24:36 – Video Course Spotlight
- 00:26:23 – Mojo, a Superset of Python
- 00:27:54 – Why Mojo?
- 00:28:14 – Mojo SDK Released for Linux
- 00:28:19 – Mojo: Head-to-Head With Python and Numba
- 00:29:22 – How We Organize Our Very Large Python Monolith
- 00:34:11 – Python and Folium to Visualize My Outdoor Activities
- 00:37:13 – Thanks and goodbye
News:
- Python 3.13.0 Alpha 2 Is Now Available
- Welcoming the Supporting Developer in Residence
- Django 5.0 Released
- Django Ninja 1.0 Released
Top Five PyCoder Links:
- Python 3.12: Cool New Features for You to Try – In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the new features in Python 3.12. You’ll explore how the new release extends the better error messages and faster code execution found in the previous version, and you’ll try out the improvements to f-strings and type variable syntax.
- Speeding Up Your Code When Multiple Cores Aren’t an Option – Parallelism isn’t the only answer: often you can optimize low-level code to get significant performance improvements.
- Learning About Code Metrics in Python Wit