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Python 3.13 is here! Our regular guests, Geir Arne Hjelle and Christopher Trudeau, return to discuss the new version. This year, Geir Arne coordinated a series of preview articles with members of the Real Python team and a showcase tutorial, "Python 3.13:…

What is HPy?
HPy provides a new API for extending Python in C. In other words, you use
#include <hpy.h> instead of #include <Python.h>.


What are the advantages of HPy?

Zero overhead on CPython: ex

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A summary of my experience at PyCon Africa 2024 in Accra, Ghana.

This PEP proposes disallowing bare except: clauses in Python’s exception-handling syntax. Currently, Python allows catching all exceptions with a bare except: clause, which can lead to overly broad exception handling and mask important errors. This PEP ...

This PEP specifies a mechanism for storing package requirements in pyproject.toml files such that they are not included in any built distribution of the project.

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In this quiz, you'll test your understanding of Python list comprehensions. You'll revisit how to rewrite loops as list comprehensions, how to choose between comprehensions and loops, and how to use conditional logic in your comprehensions.

You can take this quiz to test your understanding of modern tools for string formatting in Python. These tools include f-strings and the .format() method.

If you’ve ever googled the question “Why do Python packages have empty __init__.py files?”, you could get the idea that Python packages wouldn’t work without them. This is a common misconception—they’ve been optional since Python 3.3! Why then, do most Python…

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.

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The current wheel 1.0 specification was written over a decade ago, and has been extremely robust to changes in the Python packaging ecosystem. Previous efforts to improve the wheel specification were deferred to focus on other packaging specifications. ...

This PEP 1 proposes to allow unparenthesized except and except* blocks in Python’s exception handling syntax only when not using the as clause. Currently, when catching multiple exceptions, parentheses are required around the exception types. This was a...

Since Python 3.11.0, CPython has provided two verifiable digital signatures for all CPython artifacts: PGP and Sigstore.

How Python's recent performance improvements work under the hood