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James Bennett: Easy HTTP status codes in Python

Link: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2023/dec/04/python-http-status-codes/

This is part of a series of posts I’m doing as a sort of Python/Django Advent calendar for Advent 2023, offering a small tip or piece of information each day from the first Sunday of Advent through Ch
Mike Driscoll: Viewing an Animated GIF with Python

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2023/12/05/viewing-an-animated-gif-with-python/

Animated GIFs are a fun way to share silent videos on social media. This website has a tutorial to help you learn how to create your own animated GIFs with Python. But what if you wanted to view an an
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #606 (Dec. 5, 2023)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/606

#606 – DECEMBER 5, 2023 View in Browser » Advent of Code: Solving Puzzles With Python Advent of Code is an online advent calendar that shares new programming puzzles each day from December 1 to
Read the Docs: Read the Docs newsletter - December 2023

Link: https://blog.readthedocs.com/newsletter-december-2023/

News and updates

We have shipped single version projects to allow projects to be versioned without having translations. This is a long-requested feature that we’ve excited to ship based on our Proxit
James Bennett: Understanding virtual environments in Python

Link: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2023/dec/05/understanding-python-venv/

This is part of a series of posts I’m doing as a sort of Python/Django Advent calendar, offering a small tip or piece of information each day from the first Sunday of Advent through Christmas Eve. See
Real Python: Build a Hangman Game With Python and PySimpleGUI

Link: https://realpython.com/hangman-python-pysimplegui/

Wouldn’t it be cool to build a hangman game with a nice graphical user interface (GUI) in Python? Maybe you’ve built a text-based user interface version of hangman, and now you want to make an even mo
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python Linting in Visual Studio Code – Hinting and Linting Video Series

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-linting-video/


One of the most important parts of writing code is making sure your code is readable. There are so many positive downstream effects of clean code from its ease to maintain and add features, debug sub
Glyph Lefkowitz: Safer, Not Later

Link: https://blog.glyph.im/2023/12/safer-not-later.html

Facebook — and by extension, most of Silicon Valley — rightly gets a lot of
shit
for its
old
motto, “Move Fast and Break Things”.
As a general principle for living your life, it is obviously terrible
Sandipan Dey: Non-Negative Matrix Factorization to solve Text Classification and Recommendation Problems

Link:

In this blog, we shall discuss on how matrix-factorization-based unsupervised machine learning techniques can be applied to solve problems such as text classification (BBC news docs) and movie recomme
Talk Python to Me: #441: Python = Syntactic Sugar?

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/441/python-syntactic-sugar

You've probably heard the term "syntactic sugar", that is, syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express. It makes the language "sweeter" for human
PyBites: Elevating Python Mastery With Pybites Real-World Developer Certifications

Link: https://pybit.es/articles/real-world-python-developer-certifications/

“The most rigorous certification program of its kind … the total end result of which is an absurdly high number of finished, feature-rich, production-ready software applications.” – Josh E
Introductio
James Bennett: Compile your Python

Link: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2023/dec/06/compile-python-bytecode/

This is part of a series of posts I’m doing as a sort of Python/Django Advent calendar, offering a small tip or piece of information each day from the first Sunday of Advent through Christmas Eve. See
Christian Ledermann: 'Hypermodernize' your Python Package

Link: https://dev.to/ldrscke/hypermodernize-your-python-package-3d9m

In the original Hypermodern Python Blogpost, Poetry was recommended as the preferred tool.
There are quite a lot of packaging tools out there which I do not want to go into in depth, instead I recomme
CodersLegacy: Pytest Tutorial: Mastering Unit Testing in Python

Link: https://coderslegacy.com/pytest-tutorial-unit-testing-in-python/

Welcome to a ALL-IN-ONE Tutorial designed to meet all your testing requirements. Whether you’re just starting with the fundamentals to build a solid conceptual foundation or aiming to craft profession
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python in Visual Studio Code – December 2023 Release

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-visual-studio-code-december-2023-release/

We’re excited to announce the December 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code!
This release includes the following announcements:

Configurable debugging options adde
Python Insider: Python 3.12.1 is now available

Link: https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2023/12/python-3121-is-now-available.html

 Python 3.12.1 is now available.https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3121/ This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.12
Python 3.12 is the newest major release of the Python program
Glyph Lefkowitz: Annotated At Runtime

Link: https://blog.glyph.im/2023/12/annotated-at-runtime.html

PEP 0593 added the ability to add
arbitrary user-defined metadata to type annotations in Python.
At type-check time, such annotations are… inert. They don’t do anything.
Annotated[int,
X] just
means
James Bennett: Use "pip install" safely

Link: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2023/dec/07/pip-install-safely/

This is part of a series of posts I’m doing as a sort of Python/Django Advent calendar, offering a small tip or piece of information each day from the first Sunday of Advent through Christmas Eve. See