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The State of Python in 2024 Michael of TalkPython fame gave this keynote at PyCon Philippines. He addresses topics such as Python trends in code, asyncio, Flask and Django, getting rid of the GIL and more. MICHAEL KENNEDY video

Optimizing Django’s System Check Framework “Django’s system check framework provides fantastic protection for configuration mishaps. It’s like a targeted linter that runs when you start Django commands.” It also can be a bit slow for large projects. As part of the Django 5.1 release many optimizations have been applied. This blog posts discusses the work involved. ADAM JOHNSON

A Lazy and Flippant Classification of Programming Languages “When talking flippantly about programming languages, it’s sometimes useful to glob a bunch of them together based on characteristics, whether superficial or not. This started with jokes about common features of ‘P languages’ like Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript and Ruby, but you can classify other languages too.” BRYCE KERLEY

Generating QR Codes With Python In this video course, you’ll learn how to use Python to generate QR codes, from your standard black-and-white QR codes to beautiful ones with your favorite colors. You’ll learn how to format QR codes, rotate them, and even replace the static background with moving images. REAL PYTHON course

So Your Teacher Wants You to Do Open Source Sometimes teachers or mentors ask students to contribute to an open source project, without the context of what that entails. This opinion piece covers just how much noise that causes for the projects and why you shouldn’t do it unless you truly mean to contribute. DAVID LORD

Pydantic: Simplifying Data Validation in Python Discover the power of Pydantic, Python’s most popular data parsing, validation, and serialization library. In this hands-on tutorial, you’ll learn how to make your code more robust, trustworthy, and easier to debug with Pydantic. REAL PYTHON

Adventures in Import-Land Ashlynn ran into a problem where her code was initializing a connection to the Google Cloud API before the credentials for it had been imported. This blog post covers the problem and how she got around it. ASHLYNN ANTROBUS

Best Python Security Practices for Web Developers Coding on the web means you have to be more security conscious as everyone has access to your software. This article discusses key steps you can take to help make your code more secure. ARJAN

Python Error and Performance Monitoring That Doesn’t Suck With Sentry, you can trace issues from the frontend to the backend—detecting slow and broken code, to fix what’s broken faster. Installing the Python SDK is super easy and PyCoder’s Weekly subscribers get three full months of the team plan. Just use code “pycoder” on signup → SENTRY sponsor