#287: Surprising ways to use Jupyter Notebooks

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Michael #1: auto-py-to-exe

• Converts .py to .exe using a simple graphical interface
• A good candidate to install via pipx
• For me, just point it at the top level app.py file and click go
• Can add icons, etc.
• Got a .app version and CLI version (I think 😉 )
• Required brew install python-tk to get tkinter on my mac
• I tested it against my URLify app.
• Oddly, only ran on Python 3.9 but not 3.10

Brian #2: 8 surprising ways how to use Jupyter Notebook

• by Aleksandra Płońska, Piotr Płoński
• Fun romp through ways you can use and abuse notebooks
  • package development
  • web app
  • slides
  • book
  • blog
  • report
  • dashboard
  • REST API

Michael #3: piptrends

• by Tankala Ashok
• Use piptrends.com for comparing python packages downloads and GitHub Statistics.
• Whenever doing research which python package, check multiple places to finalize it so thought of putting all those things in a single place.
• Inspired by npmtends.com.

Brian #4: Is it a class or a function? It's a callable!

• by Trey Hunner
• It’s kinda hard to tell in Python. Actually, impossible to tell from staring at the calling code.
• “Of the 69 “built-in functions” listed in the Python Built-In Functions page, only 42 are actually implemented as functions: 26 are classes and 1 (help) is an instance of a callable class.
• Of the 26 classes among those built-in “functions”, four were actually functions in Python 2 (the now-lazy map, filter, range, and zip) but have since become classes.
• The Python built-ins and the standard library are both full of maybe-functions-maybe-classes.”
• len - yep, that’s a function
• zip - that’s a class
• reversed, enumerate, range, and filter “functions” are all classes. But callable classes.
• Cool discussion of
  • callable objects
  • partials, itemgetters, iterators, generators, factory functions
  • …

Extras

Brian:

• What’s in which Python - Ned Batchelder
  • brief bullet list of a few memorable changes in versions 2.1 through 3.11

Michael:

• Orion Browser via Dan Bader
• PSF 2021 Survey Results are out (full analysis next week)

Joke: async problems