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fastapi
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FastAPI Got Me an OpenAPI Spec Really... Fast
That’s when I found FastAPI.
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How to Deploy a Fast API Application to a Kubernetes Cluster using Podman and Minikube
FastAPI & Uvicorn
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Analysing FastAPI Middleware Performance
Discussion at FastAPI GitHub: https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/2696
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LangChain, Python, and Heroku
An API application framework (such as FastAPI)
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Litestar – powerful, flexible, and highly performant Python ASGI framework
It’s been my experience that async Python frameworks tend to turn IO bound problems into CPU bound problems with a high enough request rate, because due to their nature they act as unbounded queues.
This ends up made worse if you’re using sync routes.
If you’re constrained on a resource such as a database connection pool, your framework will continue to pull http requests off the wire that a sane client will cancel and retry due to timeouts because it takes too long to get a connection out of the pool. Since there isn’t a straightforward way to cancel the execution of a route handler in every Python http framework I’ve seen exhibit this problem, the problem quickly snowballs.
This is an issue with fastapi, too- https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/5759
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AI-Powered Image Search with CLIP, pgvector, and Fast API
Fast API.
- Ask HN: What is your go-to stack for the web?
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Fun with Avatars: Crafting the core engine | Part. 1
We will create our API using FastAPI, a modern high-performance web framework for building fast APIs with Python. It is designed to be easy to use, efficient, and highly scalable. Some key features of FastAPI include:
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Building Fast APIs with FastAPI: A Comprehensive Guide
FastAPI is a modern, fast, web framework for building APIs with Python 3.7+ based on standard Python type hints. It is designed to be easy to use, fast to run, and secure. In this blog post, we’ll explore the key features of FastAPI and walk through the process of creating a simple API using this powerful framework.
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Effortless API Documentation: Accelerating Development with FastAPI, Swagger, and ReDoc
FastAPI is a modern, fast web framework for building APIs with Python 3.7+ that automatically generates OpenAPI and JSON Schema documentation. While FastAPI simplifies API development, manually creating and updating API documentation can still be a time-consuming task. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to leverage FastAPI’s automatic documentation generation capabilities, specifically focusing on Swagger and ReDoc, and how to streamline the process of documenting your APIs.
mypy
- The GIL can now be disabled in Python's main branch
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Polars – A bird's eye view of Polars
It's got type annotations and mypy has a discussion about it here as well: https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/1282
- Static Typing for Python
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Python 3.13 Gets a JIT
There is already an AOT compiler for Python: Nuitka[0]. But I don't think it's much faster.
And then there is mypyc[1] which uses mypy's static type annotations but is only slightly faster.
And various other compilers like Numba and Cython that work with specialized dialects of Python to achieve better results, but then it's not quite Python anymore.
[0] https://nuitka.net/
[1] https://github.com/python/mypy/tree/master/mypyc
- Introducing Flask-Muck: How To Build a Comprehensive Flask REST API in 5 Minutes
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WeveAllBeenThere
In Python there is MyPy that can help with this. https://www.mypy-lang.org/
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It's Time for a Change: Datetime.utcnow() Is Now Deprecated
It's funny you should say this.
Reading this article prompted me to future-proof a program I maintain for fun that deals with time; it had one use of utcnow, which I fixed.
And then I tripped over a runtime type problem in an unrelated area of the code, despite the code being green under "mypy --strict". (and "100% coverage" from tests, except this particular exception only occured in a "# pragma: no-cover" codepath so it wasn't actually covered)
It turns out that because of some core decisions about how datetime objects work, `datetime.date.today() < datetime.datetime.now()` type-checks but gives a TypeError at runtime. Oops. (cause discussed at length in https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/9015 but without action for 3 years)
One solution is apparently to use `datetype` for type annotations (while continuing to use `datetime` objects at runtime): https://github.com/glyph/DateType
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What's New in Python 3.12
PEP 695 is great. I've been using mypy every day at work in last couple years or so with very strict parameters (no any type etc) and I have experience writing real life programs with Rust, Agda, and some Haskell before, so I'm familiar with strict type systems. I'm sure many will disagree with me but these are my very honest opinions as a professional who uses Python types every day:
* Some types are better than no types. I love Python types, and I consider them required. Even if they're not type-checked they're better than no types. If they're type-checked it's even better. If things are typed properly (no any etc) and type-checked that's even better. And so on...
* Having said this, Python's type system as checked by mypy feels like a toy type system. It's very easy to fool it, and you need to be careful so that type-checking actually fails badly formed programs.
* The biggest issue I face are exceptions. Community discussed this many times [1] [2] and the overall consensus is to not check exceptions. I personally disagree as if you have a Python program that's meticulously typed and type-checked exceptions still cause bad states and since Python code uses exceptions liberally, it's pretty easy to accidentally go to a bad state. E.g. in the linked github issue JukkaL (developer) claims checking things like "KeyError" will create too many false positives, I strongly disagree. If a function can realistically raise a "KeyError" the program should be properly written to accept this at some level otherwise something that returns type T but 0.01% of the time raises "KeyError" should actually be typed "Raises[T, KeyError]".
* PEP 695 will help because typing things particularly is very helpful. Often you want to pass bunch of Ts around but since this is impractical some devs resort to passing "dict[str, Any]"s around and thus things type-check but you still get "KeyError" left and right. It's better to have "SomeStructure[T]" types with "T" as your custom data type (whether dataclass, or pydantic, or traditional class) so that type system has more opportunities to reject bad programs.
* Overall, I'm personally very optimistic about the future of types in Python!
[1] https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/1773
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Mypy 1.6 Released
# is fixed: https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/12987.
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Ask HN: Why are all of the best back end web frameworks dynamically typed?
You probably already know but you can add type hints and then check for consistency with https://github.com/python/mypy in python.
Modern Python with things like https://learnpython.com/blog/python-match-case-statement/ + mypy + Ruff for linting https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff can get pretty good results.
I found typed dataclasses (https://docs.python.org/3/library/dataclasses.html) in python using mypy to give me really high confidence when building data representations.
What are some alternatives?
AIOHTTP - Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python
pyright - Static Type Checker for Python
HS-Sanic - Async Python 3.6+ web server/framework | Build fast. Run fast. [Moved to: https://github.com/sanic-org/sanic]
ruff - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
Tornado - Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed.
pyre-check - Performant type-checking for python.
django-ninja - 💨 Fast, Async-ready, Openapi, type hints based framework for building APIs
black - The uncompromising Python code formatter
Flask - The Python micro framework for building web applications.
pytype - A static type analyzer for Python code
swagger-ui - Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.
pydantic - Data validation using Python type hints