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News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Apr 7th, 2025 ...

The word2vec model was proposed in a 2013 paper by Google researchers called "Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space", and was further refined by additional papers from the same team. It kick-started the modern use of embeddings ...

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Last year I updated my [having a great first PyCon][pycon post] post to note that Mastodon would likely be more popular than Twitter at PyCon. My ...

Preface: the migration to pytest Last year, after 17 years since the inception of the project, I decided to start adopting pytest into psutil (see psutil/#2446). The advantages over unittest are numerous, but the two I cared about most are: Being ...

This is the first entry in a five-part series about event sourcing:Why I Finally Embraced Event Sourcing--And Why You Should TooWhat is event sourcing and why you should carePreventing painful couplingEvent-driven microservice in a monolithGet ...

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Build a desktop sticky notes application with Python and Qt6. Persistent note storage with SQLAlchemy and SQLite. Do you ever find yourself needing to take a quick note of some information but have nowhere to put it? Then this app is for you! This .. ...

So the Switch 2 got announced in a Nintendo Direct yesterday. The event itself was essentially an unending series of incredible new information about the Switch 2 console and games. Here are my mix ...

Use Python's .strip() method to remove unwanted whitespace or specific characters. Learn about common pitfalls, real-world use cases, and compare .strip() with similar methods like .lstrip() and .removesuffix().