cool libraries

Data §

Serialization §

• msgspec - serialization and validation, supporting JSON, MessagePack, YAML, and TOML

Transformation §

• Duckdb - an in-process SQL OLAP database management system
  • It also works great as a batch-oriented data transformation engine
• Polars - Dataframes powered by a multithreaded, vectorized query engine, written in Rust
  • Basically a pandas competitor

Validation §

• Pydantic - Data validation using Python type hints

Web Server §

• FastAPI - popular web service framework
• litestar - library that FastAPI uses for HTTP endpoints

Auth §

• authlib - handles OAuth and OpenID Connect

Shell §

• shshsh - makes running bash commands easy, with easy piping between stdin, stdout, stderr

Pytest §

Mocking helper libraries §

• pytest-postgresql
• pytest-mongo
• pytest-mysql
• pytest-dynamodb
• pytest-httpserver
• pytest-rabbitmq
• pytest-solr
• pytest-elasticsearch

Mocking requests §

• pytest-responses
• pytest-betamax

Terminal Graphics §

BadAss Terminal GRaphics Library (batgrl) §

• GitHub repo
• Visualizations for Advent of Code problems

Lava droplet example, from AoC 2022, day 18

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