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Hugo van Kemenade: Steering Council election

Link: https://hugovk.dev/blog/2025/steering-council-election/

The Python Steering Council election is on!
This year six candidates are running for the five seats. See
PEP 8107 for links to their nomination statements
and PEP 13 for more on Python language govern
Armin Ronacher: Let’s Destroy The European Union!

Link: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/9/fixing-europe/

Elon Musk is not
happy
with the EU fining his X platform and is currently on a tweet rampage
complaining about it. Among other things, he wants the whole EU to be
abolished. He sadly is hardly the f
Real Python: Using Functional Programming in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/using-functional-programming/

Functional programming is a programming paradigm in which the primary method of computation is the evaluation of functions. But how does Python support functional programming?
In this video course, yo
Django Weblog: Online Community Working Group GitHub repo and project

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/dec/09/online-community-working-group-github-repo-and-pro/

The Online Community Working Group has introduced a new GitHub repository designed to manage and track ideas, suggestions, and improvements across Django's various online community platforms.
Introduc
EuroPython Society: General Assembly 2025

Link: https://www.europython-society.org/general-assembly-2025/

We’re excited to invite you to this year’s General Assembly meeting! We’ll gather on Wednesday, 17 December 2025 20:00 CET, held online via Zoom. EPS membership is required to participate and addition
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #712: Quantum Computing in Python, DataFrame Libraries, Django 6, and More (Dec. 9, 2025)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/712

#712 – DECEMBER 9, 2025 View in Browser » Exploring Quantum Computing & Python Frameworks What are the recent advances in the field of quantum computing and high-performance computing? And what
Eli Bendersky: Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"

Link: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/revisiting-lets-build-a-compiler/

There's an old compiler-building tutorial that has become part of the field's
lore: the Let's Build a Compiler
series by Jack Crenshaw (published between 1988 and 1995).
I ran into it in 2003
and was
Real Python: Quiz: Python Inner Functions: What Are They Good For?

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/inner-functions-what-are-they-good-for/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the Python Inner Functions: What Are They Good For? tutorial.
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how inner functions work with enclosing scope
Seth Michael Larson: Extracting Nintendo Switch “Play Activity” with OCR

Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/nintendo-switch-play-activity-ocr?utm_campaign=rss

Despite considering myself a “gamer”,
I realized I had only played ~5 hours of video-games
in the whole year 2022 and ~6 hours in 2021. Honestly, these numbers
made me a bit sad to see... You can't “i
Real Python: Python Inner Functions: What Are They Good For?

Link: https://realpython.com/inner-functions-what-are-they-good-for/

Python inner functions are those you define inside other functions to access nonlocal names and bundle logic with its surrounding state. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create inner helper funct
Ahmed Bouchefra: The Efficient Way to Learn Python in 2026 (5 Prompts + A Free Book)

Link: https://efficientcoder.net/education/python/ai%20learning/learn-python-2026-prompts/

I see two types of learners in 2026, and honestly, both of them are doing it wrong.
The first group tries to learn solely through AI. They ask chatbots to “write a script,” copy-paste the result, and
Daniel Roy Greenfeld: Adding Type Hints to my Blog

Link: https://daniel.feldroy.com/posts/2025-12-adding-type-hints-to-my-blog

I've decided to add static type checking to my blog engine project. The tool I chose is pyrefly, a fast, Rust-based library for checking types in Python.
Installing Pyrefly with UV
My project uses uv
Django Weblog: Django Code of Conduct Transparency Report 2025

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/dec/11/django-code-of-conduct-transparency-report-2025/

The Code of Conduct working group received 4 reports and met 12 times in 2025. This transparency report is a brief account of how those reports were handled. This year’s number is lower than previous
PyCon: PyCon US 2026 - Registration, Hotels, Travel Grants & More!

Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2025/12/pycon-us-2026-registration-hotels.html

The news you’ve been waiting for is finally here: registration for PyCon US 2026 is officially open! PyCon US will take place May 13 - May 19, 2026, in Long Beach, California at the Long Beach Convent
Ahmed Bouchefra: A Pythonista’s Guide to the 2026 Code Rush

Link: https://efficientcoder.net/python/career%20advice/developer%20trends/programming-in-2026/

Look, we know the truth. Python is the best language ever written. It reads like English, it runs the AI revolution, and it doesn’t force us to worry about memory pointers or semi-colons.
But even I h
Armin Ronacher: Skills vs Dynamic MCP Loadouts

Link: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/13/skills-vs-mcp/

I’ve been moving all my MCPs to skills, including the remaining one I still
used: the Sentry MCP1. Previously I had already moved entirely away from
Playwright to a Playwright skill.
In the last mont
Hugo van Kemenade: Steering Council results

Link: https://hugovk.dev/blog/2025/steering-council-results/

The Python Steering Council 2026 election
results are in
and congratulations to the new Python Steering Council!

Barry Warsaw
Donghee Na
Pablo Galindo Salgado
Savannah Ostrowski
Thomas Wouters

Welco
Talk Python to Me: #530: anywidget: Jupyter Widgets made easy

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/530/anywidget-jupyter-widgets-made-easy

For years, building interactive widgets in Python notebooks meant wrestling with toolchains, platform quirks, and a mountain of JavaScript machinery. Most developers took one look and backed away slow