Benchmarking Python and Rust Async Web Server Performance
Benchmarks showing how Python’s Blacksheep and Uvicorn stack up to a Rust solution using Axum and Tokio.
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Python Virtual Environments: Video Tutorial
This video shows you how to create virtual environments in Mac/Linux/Windows. We also include a demo of a new feature in VS Code that works great with them, so you don’t have to set up the interpreter.
PySpark and Parquet: Elegant Python DataFrames and SQL
PySpark has excellent support for querying Par
Apache Airflow: Python ETL and Scheduling Made Easy
Apache Airflow is a powerful and popular scheduling tool in Python for ETL jobs, data engineering, and other tasks. This article gets you started.
SQLAlchemy DataClass Example
Learn to use MappedAsDataclass, a new feature of SQLAlchemy as of version 2.0, in this short but code-rich example.
Using the Kaggle Datasets API in Python
Kaggle.com hosts many datasets for data analysis and machine learning tasks. Learn to easily list and download what you need using the Kaggle API.
Selecting Data in Pandas
There are many ways to select data in Pandas, including indexing, loc and iloc, the query method, and more. Master them all with this overview.
Alternatives to Pandas: Python Polars
Polars, a Python DataFrame library written in Rust is a great alternative to Pandas. Learn how they compare and how to add Polars to your toolkit.
Python Parquet and Arrow: Using PyArrow with Pandas
Parquet and Arrow are two Apache projects available in Python via the PyArrow library. Parquet is an efficient, compressed, column-oriented storage format for arrays and tables of data. Arrow is an in-memory columnar format for data analysis that is designed to be used across different languages. It currently boasts supported libraries for several important languages, … Read more
Python Function Exercises With Solutions
Learning to write functions is an important step in learning to program. This set of practice Python functions and solutions is designed for beginners.
