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death and gravity: reader 3.20 released – we're so back

Link: https://death.andgravity.com/reader-3-20

Hi there!
I'm happy to announce version 3.20 of reader, a Python feed reader library.
What's new? #
Here are the highlights since reader 3.16.
Web app re-design #
In early 2025,
I started a web app re
The Python Coding Stack: My Life • The Autobiography of a Python Object

Link: https://www.thepythoncodingstack.com/p/my-life-the-autobiography-of-a-python-object

And that’s it. I exist.I have no recollection of anything before this instant. But I’m very aware of what I am now. I’m an object.This is the line of code that brought me into existence:All code block
Talk Python to Me: #528: Python apps with LLM building blocks

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/528/python-apps-with-llm-building-blocks

In this episode, I’m talking with Vincent Warmerdam about treating LLMs as just another API in your Python app, with clear boundaries, small focused endpoints, and good monitoring. We’ll dig into patt
Zato Blog: Network Packet Broker Automation in Python

Link: https://zato.io/en/blog/network-packet-broker-automation-python.html


Network Packet Broker Automation in Python


2025-12-01, by Dariusz Suchojad



Packet brokers are crucial for network engineers, providing a clear, detailed view of network traffic,
aiding in effi
Real Python: Quiz: Quantum Computing Basics With Qiskit

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/quantum-computing-basics/

Dive into quantum computing fundamentals with this quiz. You’ll practice key ideas like superposition, measurement, entanglement, and how quantum and classical systems work together. You’ll also revis
Brian Okken: Is Cyber Monday still a thing?

Link: https://pythontest.com/2025-cyber-monday/

I kinda forgot about CyberMonday.
However, when I saw a bunch of announcements this morning, I figured why not participate.

The Complete pytest Course bundle

Use CYBERMONDAY to save 50% off Dec 1 on
Real Python: Quantum Computing Basics With Qiskit

Link: https://realpython.com/quantum-computing-basics/

Every classical computer reduces the world to 0s and 1s. That binary framework has carried us from calculators to supercomputers, but some problems demand checking through 2n possibilities, a task tha
Mike Driscoll: ANN: Vibe Coding Video Games with Python

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2025/12/01/ann-vibe-coding-video-games-with-python/

I am happy to announce my latest book, Vibe Coding Video Games with Python. Here’s the announcement from my Kickstarter:
Welcome to Vibe Coding Video Games with Python. In this book, you will learn ho
Caktus Consulting Group: LLM Basics: OpenAI Function Calling

Link: https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2025/12/01/learning-llm-basics-openai-function-calling/

In our previous post, we explored how to send text to an LLM and receive a text response in return. That is useful for chatbots, but often we need to integrate LLMs with other systems. We may want the
Python Bytes: #460 Overlooked Python Typing

Link: https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/460/overlooked-python-typing

<strong>Topics covered in this episode:</strong><br>

<ul>
<li><strong><a href="https://adventofcode.com?featured_on=pythonbytes">Advent of Code</a> starts today</strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="ht
Seth Michael Larson: One weird trick for cheaper physical Switch 2 games?

Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/one-weird-trick-for-cheaper-physical-switch-2-games?utm_campaign=rss

Maybe sell your boxes? I happened to be browsing PriceCharting
and saw that only the box for Kirby Air Riders was
selling for $20 on average. I couldn't believe my eyes!
But I looked and there were at
Python Software Foundation: Sovereign Tech Agency and PSF Security Partnership

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/12/sovereign-tech-agency-and-psf-security.html

We are thrilled to announce that the Sovereign Tech Agency has committed to a €86,000 investment in work to be performed by the Python Software Foundation to improve the security of CPython and the Py
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Django Weblog: Django security releases issued: 5.2.9, 5.1.15, and 4.2.27

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/dec/02/security-releases/

In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team
is issuing releases for
Django 5.2.9,
Django 5.1.15, and
Django 4.2.27.
These releases address the security issues detailed below. We en
Real Python: Introduction to pandas

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/introduction-pandas/

The pandas DataFrame is a structure that contains two-dimensional data and its corresponding labels. DataFrames are widely used in data science, machine learning, scientific computing, and many other
Nicola Iarocci: Eve 2.2.4

Link: https://nicolaiarocci.com/eve-2.2.4/

Eve v2.2.4 was just released on PyPI. It is a minor update, with a validation fix contributed by smeng9. See the changelog for details.
Python Morsels: Wrapping text output in Python

Link: https://www.pythonmorsels.com/wrapping-text/

Python's textwrap module includes utilities for wrapping text to a maximum line length.



Table of contents

Improving readability with text wrapping
Wrapping text to a fixed width with textwrap.wrap
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #711: pairwise(), Mocks, Claude, and More (Dec. 2, 2025)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/711

#711 – DECEMBER 2, 2025 View in Browser » Generalising itertools.pairwise This article teaches you about itertools.pairwise, a function for accessing pairs of components over an iterable. Learn