Guiding Scientific Python Library Development | Real Python Podcast
How do you prepare a scientific Python project for sharing with others? Could you use some best practices and guidance for packaging, documentation, and testing? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
👉 Links from the show: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/178/
We talk about the creation of the Scientific Python Library Development Guide. The guide was finalized during the 2023 Scientific Python Developer Summit and is a resource for modern packaging. It includes sections of tutorials, principles, templates, and common patterns.
Christopher shares a recent Real Python tutorial about sorting Unicode strings in Python. He covers some of the pitfalls and ways to avoid them. The tutorial includes multiple third-party libraries to assist in wrangling Unicode characters.
We also share several other articles and projects from the Python community, including a couple of release announcements, information on namespaces and variable scope in Python, benchmark comparisons of Numba and Mojo, a discussion of recent so-called AI fails, a TUI for log files with a merged timeline, a cross-platform GUI building tool similar to HyperCard, and a project for reproducing exact `argparse` arguments.
Topics:
00:00:00 -- Introduction
00:02:30 -- Python 3.13.0 alpha 1 is now available
00:03:20 -- core.py - Podcast
00:03:53 -- PEP 730 - Adding iOS as a supported platform
00:05:22 -- Mojo🔥 is now available on Mac
00:06:28 -- How to Sort Unicode Strings Alphabetically in Python
00:11:48 -- Python Variables: Namespaces and Variable Scope
00:18:18 -- Mojo: Head-to-Head With Python and Numba
00:27:25 -- Video Course Spotlight
00:28:50 -- The Scientific Python Library Development Guide
00:32:47 -- I'm banned for life from advertising on Meta
00:48:03 -- `logmerger`: TUI for Log Files With Merged Timeline
00:50:34 -- CardStock: Cross-Platform GUI Building Tool
00:54:24 -- `reverse_argparse`: Tell the User What They Ran
00:56:25 -- Thanks and goodbye
👉 Links from the show: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/178/
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