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Real Python: Quiz: How to Use Ollama to Run Large Language Models Locally

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/ollama/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of How to Use Ollama to Run Large Language Models Locally.
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to install Ollama, pull and manage models, chat
eGenix.com: PyDDF Python Spring Sprint 2026

Link: https://www.egenix.com/company/news/PyDDF-Spring-Sprint-2026

The following text is in German, since we're announcing a Python sprint in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Ankündigung
Python Meeting Spring Sprint 2026 in
Düsseldorf

Samstag, 21.03.2026, 10:00-18:00 Uhr
Sonnt
Real Python: Quiz: Splitting, Concatenating, and Joining Python Strings

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/splitting-concatenating-and-joining-strings-python/

How well do you know Python string manipulation? In this quiz, you’ll revisit concepts like string immutability, splitting and joining with different arguments, and building safe string operations for
PyCon: Launching the PyCon US 2026 Schedule!

Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2026/03/launching-pycon-us-2026-schedule.html

We’re excited to announce the full schedule for PyCon US 2026!For another year, PyCon US received an overwhelming number of incredible proposal submissions, with this year’s final count totaling an im
Seth Michael Larson: I’ve added human.json to my website

Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/ive-added-human-dot-json-to-my-website?utm_campaign=rss

Evan Hahn recently blogged about adding
support for the “human.json protocol” to his website.
I read the specification and thought this
seemed like a straightforward protocol
to implement.
I've follow
The Python Coding Stack: The Price is Right • From Properties to Descriptors

Link: https://www.thepythoncodingstack.com/p/python-descriptors-the-price-is-right

You have a class called Product that has an attribute called .selling_price. You also have an instance of Product assigned to the variable name coffee.What happens when you write coffee.selling_price?
Real Python: Quiz: Speed Up Python With Concurrency

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/speed-python-concurrency/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of
Speed Up Python With Concurrency.
You’ll explore how I/O-bound programs face latency, which concurrency patterns to use, the differences between threadi
Real Python: Spyder: Your IDE for Data Science Development in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/spyder-ide/

There are many different integrated development environments (IDEs) to choose from for Python development. One popular option for data-focused work is Spyder, an open-source Python IDE geared toward s
Ari Lamstein: acs-nativity: A Python Package for Analyzing Changes in the Foreign-Born Population

Link: https://arilamstein.com/blog/2026/03/16/acs-nativity-a-python-package-for-analyzing-changes-in-the-foreign-born-population/

President Trump has made reducing illegal immigration and increasing deportations central goals of his second administration (1, 2). This is causing many people to ask: how are these policies changing
Python Bytes: #473 A clean room rewrite?

Link: https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/473/a-clean-room-rewrite

Topics covered in this episode:

chardet ,AI, and licensing
refined-github
pgdog: PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder
Agentic Engineering Patterns
Extras
Joke
Watch on You
PyCon: Attend PyCon US for a day of Trailblazing Python Security!

Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2026/03/attend-pycon-us-for-a-day-of-trailblazing-python-security.html

PyCon US is coming to Long Beach, California in 2026. This year for the first time ever there is a day-long talk track devoted to the latest in Python security. This new talk track is titled “Trailbla
Marcos Dione: Block sizes from OSM data

Link: https://www.grulic.org.ar/~mdione/glob/posts/block-sizes-from-osm-data/

My city has big blocks. One close to mine is around 6km of circumference. I wanted to make a map that show the sizes of
the blocks. What I have is a rendering DB for my area. Let's see what I can do.
Real Python: Quiz: Linked Lists in Python: An Introduction

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/linked-lists-python/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of
Linked Lists in Python.
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit what linked lists are, when to use collections.deque, how to implement your own lin
Real Python: Downloading Files From URLs With Python

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/downloading-files-urls/

Python makes it straightforward to download files from a URL with its robust set of libraries. For quick tasks, you can use the built-in urllib module or the requests library to fetch and save files.
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #726: Lazy Imports, Pydantic AI, Classes, and More (March 17, 2026)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/726

#726 – MARCH 17, 2026 View in Browser » The Story of Python’s Lazy Imports This article is about why lazy imports took 3 years and 2 attempts to be added to the language. From PEP 690’s rejectio
Seth Michael Larson: Python library “Requests” needs you to test type hints

Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/python-library-requests-is-adding-type-hints-and-needs-your-help?utm_campaign=rss

Requests is a popular HTTP client library available
on the Python Package Index (PyPI). Sitting in the
top 10 packages by downloads on PyPI, this library
is used by many, many projects. This library
i
Real Python: Quiz: Exploring Basic Data Types in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python-basic-data-types/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of
Python Data Types.
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit basic numeric, string, and Boolean types, how Python represents these objects, and commo
Real Python: Build Your Weekly Python Study Schedule: 7 Days to Consistent Progress

Link: https://realpython.com/weekly-study-schedule/

Staying consistent with learning Python can be challenging. This guide helps you create a weekly Python study schedule that you can stick to and shows you how it works in practice.
By the end of this
"Michael Kennedy's Thoughts on Technology": Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio

Link: https://mkennedy.codes/posts/fire-and-forget-or-never-with-python-s-asyncio/


TL;DR; Python’s asyncio.create_task() can silently garbage collect your fire-and-forget tasks starting in Python 3.12 - they may never run. The fix: store task references in a set and register a done
Nicola Iarocci: Eve 2.3.0

Link: https://nicolaiarocci.com/eve-2.3.0/

Eve v2.3 was just released on PyPI. It adds optimize_pagination_for_speed, a resource-level setting that allows granular control, overriding the equivalent global option that goes by the same name. Ma