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PEP 777: How to Re-Invent the Wheel “The current wheel 1.0 specification was written over a decade ago, and has been extremely robust to changes in the Python packaging ecosystem… this PEP prescribes compatibility requirements on future wheel revisions.” PYTHON.ORG

PEP 761: Deprecating PGP Signatures for CPython Artifacts Since Python 3.11.0, CPython has provided two verifiable digital signatures for all CPython artifacts: PGP and Sigstore. This PEP proposes moving to Sigstore as the only way of signing artifacts. PYTHON.ORG

Posit Connect: Share the Work You Make With Streamlit, FastAPI, & Other FOSS Frameworks People use Posit Connect to publish, host, & manage interactive apps, dashboards, Python models, APIs, & much more. It provides a centralized, self-service place to share the products of data science teams. Increase the impact of your work by making it easier for others to integrate with your work →...

Build a Contact Book App With Python, Textual, and SQLite In this tutorial, you’ll be guided step by step through the process of building a basic contact book application. You’ll use Python and Textual to build the application’s text-based user interface (TUI), and then use SQLite to manage the database. REAL PYTHON

Switching From virtualenvwrapper to direnv Earlier this week Trey considered whether to switch from virtualenvwrapper to using local .venv managed by direnv. He then also started experimenting with uv and Starship. This post explains why and his new configuration. TREY HUNNER

Ensuring a Block Is Overridden in a Django Template Some template blocks are meant to be overloaded and forgetting to do so results in rendering bugs. This post talks about creating a new tag that throws an exception which alerts your tests if you forget to overload. TOM CARRICK

Arrange, Act, and Assert Pattern in Testing Learn what the Arrange, Act, and Assert (AAA) pattern is, how it works, the benefits it offers, and its role in unit test automation. Note: sample code is not in Python, but the concepts apply to all unit testing. ANTONELLO ZANINI

How I Prepare a Technical Talk This article outlines the system that Rodrigo uses to prepare his Python talks. Steal his ideas and suggestions so that you, too, can start giving talks at your local meetups and at PyCons all over the world. MATHSPP.COM • Shared by Rodrigo

Implementing a Python Singleton With Decorators A singleton pattern is one where only one instance of an object type is allowed at a time. One way to implement this concept is through the use of a decorator. This post teaches you how. PIETER CLAERHOUT

Let’s Go Easy on PyPI, OK? The use of containers can mean a lot of calls to PyPI. This post talks about caching properly to reduce the load on our shared community servers. MICHAEL KENNEDY

Rotating Turn Order With deque If you need to cycle through values, one way to do that is with deque. This post shows you through an example service for a game engine. JUHA-MATTI SANTALA