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NumPy Practical Examples: Useful Techniques In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use NumPy by exploring several interesting examples. You’ll read data from a file into an array and analyze structured arrays to perform a reconciliation. You’ll also learn how to quickly chart an analysis and turn a custom function into a vectorized function. REAL PYTHON

Loop Targets Loop assignment allows you to assign to a dict item in a for loop. This post covers what that means and that it is no more costly than regular assignment. NED BATCHELDER

Introducing the Windsurf Editor. Tomorrow’s IDE, Today Introducing the Windsurf Editor, the first agentic IDE. All the features you know and love from Codeium’s extensions plus new capabilities such as Cascade that act as collaborative AI agents, combining the best of copilot and agent systems → CODEIUM sponsor

Vector Animations With Python This post shows you how to use gizeh and moviepy to create animations using vector graphics. DEEPNOTE.COM

Is Python Really That Slow? The speed of Python is an age old conversation. This post talks about just what it does and doesn’t mean. MIGUEL GRINBERG

Dictionary Comprehensions: How and When to Use Them In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to write dictionary comprehensions in Python. You’ll also explore the most common use cases for dictionary comprehensions and learn about some bad practices that you should avoid when using them in your code. REAL PYTHON

What We Learned From Analyzing 20.2 Million CI Jobs The Trunk Flaky Test public beta is open! You can now detect, quarantine, and eliminate flaky tests from your codebase. Discover insights from our analysis of 20.2 million CI jobs and see how Trunk can unblock pipelines and stop reruns. Access is free. Check out our getting started guide here → TRUNK sponsor

Andrej Karpathy on Learning Entertainment-based content may appear educational, but it is not effective for learning. To truly learn, one should seek out long-form, challenging content that requires effort and engagement. Educators should prioritize creating meaningful, in-depth content that fosters deep learning. X.COM

The Polars vs pandas Difference Nobody Is Talking About When people compare pandas and Polars, they usually bring up topics such as lazy execution, Rust, null values, multithreading, and quey optimisation. Yet there’s one innovation which people often overlook: non-elementary group-by aggregations. MARCO GORELLI • Shared by Marco Gorelli

How to Debug Your Textual Application TUI applications require a full terminal which most IDEs don’t implement. To make matters more complicated, TUIs use the same calls that many command line debuggers use, making it hard to deal with breakpoints. This article teaches you how to debug a Textual TUI program. MIKE DRISCOLL