Astrophysics and Astronomy With Python & PyCon Africa 2024 | Real Python Podcast #219

Real Python · Beginner ·📰 AI News & Updates ·1y ago
Are you interested in practicing your Python skills while learning how to solve astrophysics and astronomy problems? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects. 👉 Links from the show: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/219/ Christopher shares a pair of his recent Real Python video courses about exploring astronomy and astrophysics with Python. Throughout the courses, you'll get to practice using a variety of data science libraries, such as NumPy, Matplotlib, pandas, pint, and Astropy. We speak with Mannie Young who is the Organizing Committee Chair of PyCon Africa. Real Python is excited to be a contributing sponsor of this year's conference. Mannie discusses reinvigorating a continent-spanning conference after a multiyear hiatus. He also talks about introducing Python to students and new developers across Africa through PyClubs, PyLadies, and PyData programs. We share several other articles and projects from the Python community, including a news roundup, logging in Python, understanding operator precedence, reconciling why it only works on your machine, a fast way to create an HTML app, and a tool for deep inspection of Python objects. This episode is sponsored by InfluxData. Topics: - 00:00:00 -- Introduction - 00:03:05 -- PEP 750: Tag Strings for Domain-Specific Languages - 00:05:19 -- PEP 752: Package Repository Namespaces - 00:07:32 -- PyCon US 2024 Recap and Recording Release - 00:08:01 -- Logging in Python - 00:14:57 -- It Works on My Machine. Why? - 00:17:33 -- Python's Operator Precedence - 00:20:54 -- Exploring Astrophysics in Python With pandas and Matplotlib - 00:24:03 -- Using Astropy for Astronomy With Python - 00:26:37 -- Sponsor: InfluxData - 00:27:22 -- fasthtml: The Fastest Way to Create an HTML App - 00:32:50 -- wat: Deep Inspection of Python Objects - 00:38:08 -- PyCon Africa 2024 - 00:40:47 -- What goes into re-energizing a conference? - 00:44:20 -- Talks and sp
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