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A Decade of Automating the Boring Stuff With Python What goes into updating one of the most popular books about working with Python? After a decade of changes in the Python landscape, what projects, libraries, and skills are relevant to an office worker? This week on the show, we speak with previous guest Al Sweigart about the third edition of “Automate the Boring Stuff...

PyCon US: Travel Grants & Refund Policy PyCon US offers travel grants to visitors. This post explains how they are decided. Also, with changing border requirements in the US, you may also be interested in the Refund Policy for International Attendees PYCON.BLOGSPOT.COM

Using Structural Pattern Matching in Python In this video course, you’ll learn how to harness the power of structural pattern matching in Python. You’ll explore the new syntax, delve into various pattern types, and find appropriate applications for pattern matching, all while identifying common pitfalls. REAL PYTHON course

Smoke Test Your Django Admin Site When writing code that uses the Django Admin, sometimes you forget to match things up. Since it is the Admin, who tests that? That doesn’t mean it won’t fail. This post shows you a general pytest function for checking that empty Admin pages work correctly. JUSTIN DUKE

Python’s Instance, Class, and Static Methods Demystified In this tutorial, you’ll compare Python’s instance methods, class methods, and static methods. You’ll gain an understanding of when and how to use each method type to write clear and maintainable object-oriented code. REAL PYTHON

I Fear for the Unauthenticated Web A short opinion post by Seth commenting on how companies scraping the web to build LLMs are causing real costs to users, and suggests you implement billing limits on your services. SETH M LARSON

Django Query Optimization: Defer, Only, and Exclude Database queries are usually the bottlenecks of most web apps. To minimize the amount of data fetched, you can leverage Django’s defer(), only(), and exclude() methods. TESTDRIVEN.IO • Shared by Michael Herman

How to Use Async Agnostic Decorators in Python Using decorators in a codebase that has both synchronous and asynchronous functions poses many challenges. One solution is to use generators. This post shows you how. PATREON • Shared by Patreon Engineering

PEP 779: Criteria for Supported Status for Free-Threaded Python PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython), described three phases of development. This PEP outlines the criteria to move between phases. PYTHON.ORG

uv overtakes Poetry Wagtail, the Django-based CMS, tracks download statistics including by which installation tool. Recently, uv overtook Poetry. This post shows the stats. THIBAUD COLAS

Using Pyinstrument to Profile FastHTML Apps A quick post with instructions on how to add profiling to your FastHTML app with pyinstrument. DANIEL ROY GREENFIELD

LangGraph: Build Stateful AI Agents in Python LangGraph is a versatile Python library designed for stateful, cyclic, and multi-actor Large Language Model (LLM) applications. This tutorial will give you an overview of LangGraph fundamentals through hands-on examples, and the tools needed to build your own LLM workflows and agents in LangGraph. REAL PYTHON

Reinventing Notebooks as Reusable Python Programs Marimo is a Jupyter replacement that uses Python as its source instead of JSON, solving a lot of issues with notebooks. This article shows you why you might switch to marimo. AKSHAY, MYLES, & MADISETTI

How to Build AI Agents With Python & Temporal Join us on April 3 at 9am PST/12pm EST to learn how Temporal’s Python SDK powers an agentic AI workflow creation. We’ll start by covering how Temporal lets you orchestrate agentic AI, then transition to a live demo → TEMPORAL sponsor

Django Template Components Are Slowly Coming Django 5.2 brings the Simple Block tag which is very similar to React children, allowing templated components. This post shows several examples from Andy’s own code. ANDREW MILLER

Performance of the Python 3.14 Tail-Call Interpreter Prior reports of 10% speed-up from the tail-call interpreter coming in Python 3.14 may be overstated. This article breaks down where that number came from and what the reality may be. NELSON ELHAGE

Binary Search as a Bidirectional Generator Python generators support a .send() method, allowing you to receive data within the generator itself. This post talks about how to use this to implement a binary search algorithm. RODRIGO GIRÃO SERRÃO

Providing Multiple Constructors in Your Python Classes In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn how to provide multiple constructors in your Python classes. To this end, you’ll learn different techniques, such as checking argument types, using default argument values, writing class methods, and implementing single-dispatch methods. REAL PYTHON

Getting to Know Duck Typing in Python In this video course, you’ll learn about duck typing in Python—a type system based on an object’s behavior rather than inheritance. By taking advantage of duck typing, you can create flexible and decoupled sets of Python classes that work together or independently. REAL PYTHON course

Detect and Localize Anomalies With Intel AI, Powered by OpenVINO Discover Anomalib, a library of ready-to-use algorithms for efficient anomaly detection. Optimized to run locally and open source, it’s designed to help you spot the odd one out. Get the code on GitHub. INTEL CORPORATION sponsor

Satellogic’s Open Satellite Feed This post explores the “Satellogic EarthView” data feed, starting with determining where the satellites are, and moving to the corresponding ground imagery. The post uses a combination of Python and DuckDB to achieve its objectives. MARK LITWINTSCHIK

The Hierarchy of Controls This article, subtitled “how to stop devs from dropping prod” takes an idea from mechanical engineering used to ensure safety around machinery and brings it to the software world to prevent accidental destruction of data. HILLEL WAYNE

Build a Dice-Rolling Application With Python In this step-by-step project, you’ll build a dice-rolling simulator app with a minimal text-based user interface using Python. The app will simulate the rolling of up to six dice. Each individual die will have six sides. REAL PYTHON

“Rules” That Terminal Programs Follow The conventions that most terminal programs follow mean that you can more easily know how to control them. Julia’s post talks about “rules” that terminal programs tend to follow, and so should yours. JULIA EVANS

Sustainable Coding: How Do I Apply It as a Cloud Engineer? Choices we make as programmers effect the amount of processing power required in production and ultimately that has a carbon cost. Ed’s post talks about how he thinks about this larger picture. ED CREWE

Faster Branch Coverage Measurement After nearly two years, Ned thinks this is finally ready: coverage.py can use sys.monitoring to more efficiently measure branch coverage. NED BATCHELDER

Python Textual: Build Beautiful UIs in the Terminal Textual is a Python library for building text-based user interfaces (TUIs) that support rich text, advanced layouts, and event-driven interactivity in the terminal. This tutorial showcases some of the ways you can design an appealing and engaging UI using Textual. REAL PYTHON