#340: Snorkel not included

Published Tue, Jun 13, 2023, recorded Tue, Jun 13, 2023

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Brian #1: PythonGUIS

Martin Fitzpatrick
A site with a collection of resources, guides, books, comparisons, etc, around GUIs in Python.
Martin recommends starting with PyQT6
However, there are tutorials covering
- PyQT6
- PySide6
- PyQT5
- TkInter
- PySide
- even Kivy

Michael #2: JupyterLab 4.0 is Here

The next major release of our full-featured development environment
You can upgrade by running pip install --upgrade jupyterlab or conda install -c conda-forge jupyterlab.
JupyterLab is now faster, thanks to improvements such as CSS rules optimization, CodeMirror 6, MathJax 3, and notebook windowing. JupyterLab 3 was when working with large notebooks.
There are additional performance improvements available via opt-in settings:
- Faster tab-switching on Chromium browsers:
- “Settings” → “JupyterLab Shell” → switch “Hidden mode” to “contentVisibility”
- Better performance with long notebooks:
- “Settings” → “Notebook” → switch “Windowing mode” to “full”
An upgraded text editor.
Better real time collaboration.
Bug fixes. More than 100 bugs have been addressed and resolved, enhancing JupyterLab’s stability and performance.

Brian #3: Proposing a struct syntax for Python

Brett Cannon
This would be a cool syntax for a data only type: struct Point(x: int, y: int)
No positional only parameters
No inheritance
No methods
Instances would be immutable, so p = Point(1, 2) would create an object that could be used as a key.
A data only focused set of types.

Michael #4: Python 3.13 Removes 20 Stdlib Modules

via PyCoders
From PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from the standard library we’re saying goodbye to
- aifc, audioop, cgi, cgitb, chunk, crypt, imghdr, mailcap, msilib, nis, nntplib, ossaudiodev, pipes, sndhdr, spwd, sunau, telnetlib, uu, xdrlib
As well as the 2to3 program and lib2to3 module in Python.
Python 3.12 final release is scheduled in 4 months (October 2023) and Python 3.13 final release is scheduled in 1 year and 4 months (October 2024).

Extras

Brian:

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Michael:

Joke: Snorkel not included

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