14th April 2021

Computer Science⚑

Programming⚑

Python⚑

• New: Jupyter Notebook/Lab.

  Jupyter Notebook/Lab is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. It can be used for R and for Python, among others.

• New: Jupyter Server Proxy.

  Jupyter Server Proxy lets you run arbitrary external processes (such as RStudio, Shiny Server, syncthing, PostgreSQL, etc) alongside your notebook, and provide authenticated web access to them.

• New: Jupyter-dash.

  plotly/jupyter-dash is a library that makes it easy to develop Plotly Dash apps interactively from within Jupyter environments.

Typing⚑

• New: Python type hints.

  Since Python 3.5, type hints are supported. Note that the Python runtime does not enforce function and variable type annotations but they can be used by third party tools such as type checkers, IDEs, linters, etc.

• New: Python type aliases.

  A type alias is defined by assigning the type to the alias.