What are the typical computer tasks you do manually every week? Could you automate those tasks with a Python script? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder&rsquo;s Weekly articles and projects.
We discuss a recent Hacker News thread about frequently used automation scripts. We share the kinds of tasks we&rsquo;ve automated with Python in our work and personal lives. 
Christopher shares a tutorial about building a micro-search engine from scratch using Python. The post takes you through coding the components of a crawler, index, and ranker. The finished engine is designed to search the posts of the blogs you follow.
We also share several other articles and projects from the Python community, including a news roundup, how a Polars query works under the hood, using Python for data analysis, understanding open-source licensing, summarizing the significant changes between Python versions, a robust TUI hex editor, and a lightweight dataframe library with a universal interface for data wrangling.
This week&rsquo;s episode is brought to you by Intel.
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Topics:
<ul>
<li>00:00:00 &ndash; Introduction</li>
<li>00:02:23 &ndash; uv: Python Packaging in Rust</li>
<li>00:02:43 &ndash; Rye Grows With uv </li>
<li>00:03:20 &ndash; Python 3.13.0 Alpha 4 Is Now Available</li>
<li>00:03:45 &ndash; A Bird&rsquo;s Eye View of Polars</li>
<li>00:07:28 &ndash; Polars: Why We Have Rewritten the String Data Type</li>
<li>00:09:33 &ndash; A Search Engine in 80 Lines of Python</li>
<li>00:13:14 &ndash; Using Python for Data Analysis</li>
<li>00:18:22 &ndash; Sponsor: Intel</li>
<li>00:18:53 &ndash; Understanding Open Source Licensing</li>
<li>00:21:54 &ndash; Summary of Major Changes Between Python Versions</li>
<li>00:23:19 &ndash; What Python automation scripts do you reuse frequently at work?</li>
<li>00:34:21 &ndash; Video Course Spotlight</li>
<li>00:35:52 &ndash; hexabyte: A modern, modular, and robust TUI hex editor</li>
<li>00:39:56 &ndash; ibis: The Flexibility of Python With the Scale of Modern SQL</li>
<li>00:43:31 &ndash; Thanks and goodbye</li>
</ul>
News:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://astral.sh/blog/uv"><code>uv</code>: Python Packaging in Rust</a> &ndash; uv is an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, designed as a drop-in alternative to pip and pip-tools. This post introduces you to uv and shows some of its performance numbers.</li>
<li><a href="https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/2/15/rye-grows-with-uv/">Rye Grows With uv - Armin Ronacher&rsquo;s Thoughts and Writings</a></li>
<li><a href="https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2024/02/python-3130-alpha-4-is-now-available.html">Python 3.13.0 Alpha 4 Is Now Available</a></li>
</ul>
Show Links:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://pola.rs/posts/polars_birds_eye_view/">A Bird&rsquo;s Eye View of Polars</a> &ndash; This post on the Polars blog introduces you to how Polars works, showing the steps from queries, plans, optimizations, and then the final execution.</li>
<li><a href="https://pola.rs/posts/polars-string-type/">Polars: Why We Have Rewritten the String Data Type</a> &ndash; A large refactor on the string data type is underway in Polars. This deep dive explains why and what is changing.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.alexmolas.com/2024/02/05/a-search-engine-in-80-lines.html">A Search Engine in 80 Lines of Python</a> &ndash; In this post Alex explains how he built a micro-search engine from scratch using Python. The resulting search engine is used to search in the posts of the blogs he follows.</li>
<li><a href="https://realpython.com/python-for-data-analysis/">Using Python for Data Analysis</a> &ndash; In this tutorial, you&rsquo;ll learn the importance of having a structured data analysis workflow, and you&rsquo;ll get the opportunity to practice using Python for data analysis while following a common workflow process.</li>
<li><a href="https://semaphoreci.com/blog/open-source-licensing">Understanding Open Source Licensing</a> &ndash; This article discusses the importance of open-source licensing in software development and its implications for stakeholders.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.nicholashairs.com/posts/major-changes-between-python-versions/">Summary of Major Changes Between Python Versions</a> &ndash; This article is a quick reference covering the major changes introduced with each new version of Python. Can&rsquo;t remember when the walrus operator was introduced? This is the place to look that up.</li>
</ul>
Discussion:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39119424">What Python automation scripts do you reuse frequently at work? - Hacker News</a></li>
</ul>
Projects
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/thetacom/hexabyte">hexabyte: A modern, modular, and robust TUI hex editor</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ibis-project/ibis">ibis: The Flexibility of Python With the Scale of Modern SQL</a></li>
</ul>
Additional Links:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/193/">Episode #193: Wes McKinney on Improving the Data Stack & Composable Systems – The Real Python Podcast</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/open-source-licensing/0131487876/">Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law</a></li>
<li><a href="https://nedbatchelder.com/text/which-py.html">What&rsquo;s in which Python - Ned Batchelder</a></li>
<li><a href="https://automatetheboringstuff.com/">Automate the Boring Stuff with Python - Al Sweigart</a></li>
<li><a href="https://realpython.com/working-with-files-in-python/">Working With Files in Python – Real Python</a></li>
<li><a href="https://realpython.com/command-line-interfaces-python-argparse/">Build Command-Line Interfaces With Python&rsquo;s argparse – Real Python</a></li>
</ul>
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