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datasette-llm 0.1a10

Release: datasette-llm 0.1a10 Fixes a bug that affected my agent.datasette.io demo site, where the set of available LLM models was not correctly restricted to just those in the configuration. Tags: datasette, llm

Joshua Mcshannon Joins the PSF as Infrastructure Engineer

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is excited to announce our newest staff member and Infrastructure Engineer, Joshua Mcshannon, reporting to Director of Engineering Jacob Coffee. Joshua brings over 16 years of…

datasette-apps 0.3a0

Release: datasette-apps 0.3a0 Datasette Apps adds support for hosting and editing custom HTML applications inside of Datasette. These can be created by hand, but it's easier to create them using LLMs via Datasette…

Draft to Document: Why I Made My Notes Look Like LaTeX Papers

On Reitz LaTeX, an Obsidian theme where you write like iA Writer and read like a LaTeX paper. Your notes are drafts while you write them. When you read them back, they should look like they matter. That sentence is the…

Python Morsels: Unnecessary syntax in Python

Unnecessary syntax in Python isn't always unhelpful. An explicit return None, an else, a keyword argument, or a trailing comma can make your code more readable. Table of contents Return None An else-return An else on a…

A Computational Analysis of Women’s Suffrage in Historical Newspapers

Using 600,546 digitized newspaper pages to measure how suffrage coverage changed from 1890 to 1920 The post A Computational Analysis of Women’s Suffrage in Historical Newspapers appeared first on Towards Data Science.

The Python Coding Stack: The Second Opinion

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How to Combine Contradictory Filters in DAX

Sometimes we need to calculate results based on contradictory filters. Without any action, these filters will lead to an empty result. Let's see how we can improve the data model to make it work. The post How to Combine…

An Effective Python Development Environment

Choose a Python development environment that helps you get coding. Find tutorials and courses on editors, uv, virtual environments, and useful tools.

Positron IDE: A Hands-on Python Tutorial

Learn how to use Positron IDE for Python data analysis: clean, visualize, and explore data manually or with the help of AI.

death and gravity: pyinfra – simple infrastructure automation in Python

Hi, I'm Adrian, and today I will live demo pyinfra, an infrastructure automation tool. We will deploy two websites – a landing page and a Python web app – first on a local virtual machine, and then on two remote…

Let Decision Models Guide Your Voice Assistant

GPT-Live does the talking. A decision model tracks what’s confirmed and picks what to ask next. The post Let Decision Models Guide Your Voice Assistant appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Quiz: Positron IDE: A Hands-on Python Tutorial

Check your understanding of Positron IDE for Python data analysis, from exploring raw data to cleaning it in scripts and notebooks.

Beyond Classical: A Quantum Approach to Time-Series Prediction

Introducing CoQS-LSTM, a Coherent Quantum Long Short-Term Memory Architecture The post Beyond Classical: A Quantum Approach to Time-Series Prediction appeared first on Towards Data Science.

LernerPython blog, from Reuven Lerner: Python set comprehension: Unique items from nested iterables

In Python 3.15, get the unique elements in a list of iterables with the new in-comprehension unpacking syntax to create a set comprehension: x = [[10, 20], [20, 30, 40], [40, 50, 60]] {*n for n in x} # returns {10, 20,…

Python GUIs: Change color in QProgressBar delegate — How to dynamically change QProgressBar colors in a QTableView delegate

How can I change the color of a QProgressBar delegate in a QTableView when a process starts or stops? I'm using a delegate to show an indeterminate progress bar (with setRange(0, 0)), and I want it to be green when…

Graham Dumpleton: Twenty years of mod_wsgi, and what comes next

Twenty years ago, around this time, the idea for mod_wsgi was taking shape in my head. The coding started in December 2006. I had no idea back then that it would end up being something I would still be maintaining two…

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