Python Hub Weekly Digest for 2025-05-04
This week in Python, learn how to automate your finances using Python, Pandas, Streamlit, and Plotly. Pip 25.1 is now available with new features. Discover how to stop writing custom init methods and use @dataclass and @classmethod instead. A team member built a bot to chat with their team's wiki using Azure OpenAI Service. Interesting projects include GlyphX, a Python Visualization Library, and Agentfy, a microservices architecture for processing user requests across social media platforms. Have a great week and happy coding!
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How To Automate Your Finances with Python
Learn to build a Python tool using Pandas, Streamlit, and Plotly to automate personal finance tracking by analyzing bank statements, categorizing transactions, and generating visual dashboards. The tutorial includes file upload handling, editable dataframes, and interactive charts for expense analysis.
Pip 25.1 is here - install dependency groups and output lock files!
A modern spreadsheet with Python integration
Stop Writing
Avoid writing custominitmethods in Python; use @dataclass for attribute definition and @classmethod factories for object creation. This approach ensures valid instances, simplifies testing, and supports async/error-prone operations, while maintaining type safety with NewType
I Built a Bot to Chat with Our Team’s Wiki Using Azure OpenAI Service
The author built an AI-powered Teams bot using Azure OpenAI Service to query their team's dynamic Azure DevOps Wiki, automating data ingestion via Python scripts and Azure AI Search Indexers. The solution includes custom metadata integration for source linking and highlights challenges like SDK limitations and deployment security considerations.
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1,000 Python Exercises
Android app with more than 1,000 problems to solve and practice
A practical guide to building agents
This guide is designed for product and engineering teams exploring how to build their first agents, distilling insights from numerous customer deployments into practical and actionable best practices. It includes frameworks for identifying promising use cases, clear patterns for designing agent logic and orchestration, and best practices to ensure your agents run safely, predictably, and...
How to Add Blazing Fast Search to Your Django Site with Meilisearch
Step-by-step guide to integrating Meilisearch with Django, complete with automatic indexing, typo tolerance, and relevant filtering capabilities.
Django Admin Theme Roundup 2025
This post highlights customizable UI packages like Dracula, Django Daisy, and Unfold, offering dark modes, Bootstrap/TailwindCSS integrations, and enhanced features. These themes modernize the admin interface while maintaining Django's rapid prototyping core, with options ranging from simple CSS overrides to full modular dashboards.
ProcessThreadPoolExecutor: when I/O becomes CPU-bound
The article introduces a custom ProcessThreadPoolExecutor in Python, designed to efficiently handle workloads that are primarily I/O-bound but include CPU-intensive tasks, by combining threading and multiprocessing. This hybrid approach addresses limitations of ThreadPoolExecutor and ProcessPoolExecutor when used separately, offering improved performance and resource utilization.
10 Rules for Writing Simple and Maintainable Code
This shows you 10 essential tips to keep your code simple, maintainable, and easy to work with.
5 Levels of Using Exception Groups in Python
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⚙️ Projects
Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge
Turns Codebase into Easy Tutorial with AI.
GlyphX
A Better, Faster, and Simpler Python Visualization Library.
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The untold story of the craziest__init__I’ve ever seen.
PocketFlow
100-line LLM framework. Let Agents build Agents!
Morphik
Open source multi-modal RAG for building AI apps over private knowledge.
cua
A framework that enables AI agents to control full operating systems within high-performance, lightweight virtual containers. It delivers up to 97% native speed on Apple Silicon and works with any vision language models.
Beyond-NanoGPT
Minimal and annotated implementations of key ideas from modern deep learning research.
FramePack
Lets make video diffusion practical!
sidekick-cli
Your agentic CLI developer.
DeepMath
A Large-Scale, Challenging, Decontaminated, and Verifiable Mathematical Dataset for Advancing Reasoning.
fastapi-forge
A UI Based FastAPI Project Generation tool.
Agentfy
Agentfy is a modular microservices architecture designed to process user requests and execute workflows across multiple social media platforms.
Traeger
A portable Actor System for C++ and Python.
library-mcp
MCP server for operating on Markdown knowledge bases.
Chonky
Fully neural approach for text chunking.
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CPython's optimization for doubly linked lists in deque (amortizes 200% link memory overhead)
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