Shared space for the Python{4}Lib group.

See our meeting notes for more details.

Upcoming meetings (meetings at 11am Eastern time):

• No meeting on May 14 during Code4Lib conference
• May 28, 2024: Thomas Guinard talks about Jupiter Kernel Gateway
• June 11, 2024: Rebecca Hyams demos Postman
• June 25, 2024: Charles Brown-Roberts & Eddie Prieto introduce deployment of web apps (Flask, security, and more)

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• Python Cheatsheet

• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python : practical programming for total beginners / Al Sweigart
• Python crash course : a hands-on, project based introduction to programming / Eric Matthes
• Python workout: 50 ten-minute exercises / Reuven M. Lerner
• Effective Python: 59 Ways to Write Better Python / Brett Slatkin
• Pandas for everyone: Python data analysis / Daniel Y. Chen
• Data Visualization with Python and JavaScript, 2nd Editionby Kyran Dale

• Official Python Tutorial

• General Python courses on Coursera (free to enroll)
• Python for Librarians / Library Juice Academy (fee)
• Library Carpentry (free lessons, paid sessions with an instructor)
• Learn Python 3 the Hard Way / Zed Shaw (free with O'Reilly for Higher Education subscription)

• Fuzzy Matching at Scale / Josh Taylor
• 19 Sweet Python Syntax Sugar for Improving Your Coding Experience

• Python Bytes weekly Python news podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken
• Test & Code hosted by Brian Okken, focused on automated testing in Python
• Talk Python To Me hosted by Michael Kennedy
• Podcast.init hosted by Tobias Macey
• The Real Python Podcast weekly coding tips, news, and interviews

• Practical Business Python / data science centric

• Finding a path forward: The use of Python to support technical services work in academic libraries Talk given at Python{4}Lib 9/20/22 by Maria Collins and Xiaoyan Song based on their presentation at ER&L 2022
• Intro to unit testing in Python / Yamil Suárez
• Speedy pandas : a super brief intro to Python's pandas library / Michelle Janowiecki

• pybibframe - MARC/XML to RDF or Versa output converter
• pymarc - MARC parser
• marcgrep - CLI for searching MARC files

• almapipy - Alma API wrapper
• caiasoft-sdk-python - SDK for Connecting to the CaiaSoft API

• Aksharamukha - transliteration of 120 Indic languages
• ArabicTransliterator - ALA-LC transliteration tool for Arabic
• cyrillic-transliteration - bi-directional transliteration of Cyrillic script to Latin script and vice versa
• graphtransliterator

• Pandas documentation
• Intro to Python: Pandas for Metadata Transformation and Cleanup / workshop by Michelle Janowiecki
• Speedy pandas / Michelle Janowiecki
• All Pandas json_normalize() you should know for flattening JSON / B. Chen

• Pydantic official documentation

• VisualTK / (great starting point to visually create a GUI in Tkinter)
• Gooey (simple GUI package, transforms argparse into GUI)

• Requests official docs
• Python's Requests Library (Guide) / Alex Ronquillo
• HTTPX official docs

• LinkChecker official documenation

• stamina official docs
• tenacity offical docs

• Briefcase documentation
• PyCon 2020 'Snakes In a Case' talk by Russell Keith-Magee
• Qt for Python & Briefcase

• PyInstaller documentation
• Easy Steps to Create an Executable in Python Using Pyinstaller / Renu Khandelwal
• Using PyInstaller to Easily Distribute Python Applications / Luke Lee
• [auto-py-to-exe] (https://pypi.org/project/auto-py-to-exe/) - PyInstaller made easy

• QR Code Demystify / Ivan
• python-barcode
• PyQRCode
• pyzbar

• rdflib
• Gephi

• Intro to unit testing in Python / Yamil Suárez

• Python Data Visualization: Where to Start? : Interview with Chris Moffitt / Talk Python To Me: episode # 384 (a great overview of available tools)
• Data Visualization with Python and JavaScript, 2nd Edition by Kyran Dale