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Lead Software Engineer, Author pythontest.com pytest courses: courses.pythontest.com Podcast: pythonbytes.fm #Python #pytest

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Gilded Python and Beyond News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Oct 27th, 2025

β€ͺπŸŽ™οΈ Python Bytes 455: Gilded Python and Beyond
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#Python #CLIs #web-services #GC #Pets #TDD

30.10.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The official home of the Python Programming Language

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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27.10.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6285    πŸ” 2746    πŸ’¬ 125    πŸ“Œ 451
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It's some form of Elvish News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Oct 20th, 2025

β€ͺπŸŽ™οΈ Python Bytes 454: It's some form of Elvish
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#Python #Django #REST #git #github

21.10.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My daughter is working on an English assignment for high school where she is analyzing a short story and needs to write a pastiche based on it.
I learned about pastiche yesterday! When talking with my kid about this assignment! 😳
I’m trying to help support her but also 😳!

21.10.2025 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Python++ News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Oct 16th, 2025

πŸŽ™οΈ Python Bytes 453: Python++
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#Python #pypi #uv

17.10.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And Astral understood the assignment. I installed 3.15 with:
uv self update
uv python install 3.15

16.10.2025 04:41 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now I kinda want to set up a spoof video of this happening.

15.10.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m pretty good at saying no but I’d like to batch process it. Maybe set up a signup for one 10-minute window once a year and anyone can sign up for a 1 minute slot.
β€œOk, you’re up, you’ve got 60 seconds to sell me on your solar panels, pest service, religion, etc., go.” … β€œnope, next, your up, go”

15.10.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

BTW, I’m still not ok with how Chuck ended. Just saying.

15.10.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ouch. That happened to my daughter once. She put in disposables with chili hands. She does remember to wear gloves now with chilis. My worst adventure was probably evening flossing with habanero hands. Now I always wear gloves with those guys.

14.10.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All better. That wasn’t too bad.

14.10.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ack! I just rubbed my eye with hands that chopped hot peppers during dinner prep.
Wow. It’s been like 2 hours and several hand washes and still. It burns! πŸ₯΅

14.10.2025 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Making up names and words that are not easily pronounceable isn’t clever, it’s annoying. Please stop. Even in fantasy and sci-fi. And keep the new word count low.

14.10.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I set my phone to DnD.
You have to roll an 18 or better for me to answer

13.10.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Yikes

12.10.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One stir fry with all of those? I hope you have plenty of milk around.

12.10.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Perhaps Doctorow needs to add an optional steps to the enshitification cycle: buy a candidate, take over the goverment, fire regulators

09.10.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t understand this term β€œleftover bacon”.

09.10.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is fun. I like the little bicycle rider zooming on one of the chart bars. I wish I’d taken a class like this in university.

09.10.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸš€ Python 3.14 is here πŸš€

07.10.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So cool

06.10.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Cat

Cat

Happy October

03.10.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think that post represents the lessons you’re supposed to take away from any β€œalgorithms and complexity” class. At least it’s a good stand-in for what I remember from mine. You have a cool skill for elegant visualization of topics that need clean mental models. Thank you for what you contribute.

03.10.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Much needed

03.10.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports πŸ‘‹ Hi everyone, We are very exited to share with you PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports: We’re proposing an opt-in lazy import syntax that defers module loading until first use, aiming for faster startup,...

Let me post a *non*-subskeet for once... We made a thing!

discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-ex...

#Python #PEP

03.10.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4

Trying to decide if this would make a better t-shirt or big sticker for my laptop

02.10.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AUTHORS: It’s time to submit your claims for the Anthropic copyright settlement.

1. Look yourself up here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

2. File your claim here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Form asks for ISBN and copyright reg # for each work. Can find in step 1.

02.10.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 185    πŸ” 210    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7
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Databases are a Fad News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Sep 29th, 2025

πŸŽ™οΈ Python Bytes 451: Databases are a Fad
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#Python #pytest #testing #postgresql #pyrefly

01.10.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What’s new in Python 3.14 β€” Python 3.14.0rc3 documentation Editor, Hugo van Kemenade,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.14, compared to 3.13. For full details, see the changelog. Summary – release highlights: Python 3.14 will be the lates...

Only one week left until the release of Python 3.14.0 final!

docs.python.org/3.14/whatsne...

peps.python.org/pep-0745/

What are you looking forward to?

#Python #Python314

30.09.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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