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Loading massive datasets entirely into RAM causes application crashes and out-of-memory (OOM) errors in containerized environments. Using memory-efficient generators ( yield ) and generator expressions allows pipelines to stream and transform gigabytes of data lazily, item by item.
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PDF tables are a nightmare. Some use ruled lines, some use whitespace to create columns, and many are a jumbled mix of both. A single extraction method inevitably fails.
This decouples your core business logic from concrete infrastructure implementations, making unit testing and mocking trivial without relying on complex dependency injection frameworks. Part 2: High-Impact Modern Features 4. Asynchronous Concurrency and Task Groups A project to convert a batch of PDFs
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