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Python GUIs: Build a Desktop Sticky Notes Application with PySide6 — Create moveable desktop reminders with Python

Link: https://www.pythonguis.com/examples/pyside6-desktop-sticky-notes/

Do you ever find yourself needing to take a quick note of some information but have nowhere to put it? Then this app is for you! This virtual sticky notes (or Post-it notes) app allows you to keep sho
Mike Driscoll: ANN: Spring Python eBook Sale 2025

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2025/04/03/ann-spring-python-ebook-sale-2025/

I am running a Spring sale on all my currently published Python books. You can get 25% off any of my complete books by using this code at checkout: MSON4QP

 
Learn Python Today!
I have books on the f
Everyday Superpowers: Why I Finally Embraced Event Sourcing—And Why You Should Too

Link: https://everydaysuperpowers.dev/articles/why-i-finally-embraced-event-sourcingand-why-you-should-too/

This is the first entry in a five-part series about event sourcing:Why I Finally Embraced Event Sourcing—And Why You Should TooWhat is event sourcing and why you should carePreventing painful coupling
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #245: GUIs & TUIs: Choosing a User Interface for Your Python Project

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/245/

What are the current Python graphical user interface libraries? Should you build everything in the terminal and create a text-based user interface instead? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this
Giampaolo Rodola: Speedup pytest startup

Link: https://gmpy.dev/blog/2025/speedup-pytest-startup

Preface: the migration to pytest
Last year, after 17 years since the inception of the project, I decided to
start adopting pytest into psutil (see
psutil/#2446). The
advantages over unittest are numer
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2025 Release

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-visual-studio-code-april-2025-release/

We’re excited to announce the April 2025 release of the Python, Pylance and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code!
This release includes the following announcements:

Enhanced Python development u
TechBeamers Python: Code Without Limits: The Best Online Python Compilers for Every Dev

Link: https://techbeamers.com/the-best-online-python-compilers/

Explore the top online Python compilers for free. With these, your development environment is always just one browser tab away. Imagine this: You’re sitting in a coffee shop when inspiration strikes.
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Build AI agents with Python in #AgentsHack

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/agentshack-python/

2025 is the year of AI agents! But what exactly is an agent, and how can you build one? Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just starting out, this free three-week virtual hackathon is your chance
Eli Bendersky: Reproducing word2vec with JAX

Link: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/reproducing-word2vec-with-jax/

The word2vec model was proposed in a 2013 paper by Google researchers called
"Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space",
and was further refined by additional papers from the same
Real Python: Python News Roundup: April 2025

Link: https://realpython.com/python-news-april-2025/

Last month brought significant progress toward Python 3.14, exciting news from PyCon US, notable community awards, and important updates to several popular Python libraries.
In this news roundup, you’
Ed Crewe: Talk about Cloud Prices at PyConLT 2025

Link: http://edcrewe.blogspot.com/2025/04/talk-about-cloud-prices-at-pyconlt-2025.html

Introduction to Cloud PricingI am looking forward to speaking at PyConLT 2025 in two weeks. Its been a while (12 years!) since my last Python conference EuroPython Florence 2012, when I spoke as a Dja
Python Morsels: Mutable default arguments

Link: https://www.pythonmorsels.com/mutable-default-arguments/

In Python, default argument values are defined only one time (when a function is defined).



Table of contents

Functions can have default values
A shared default value
Default values are only evalua
Erik Marsja: How to Extract GPS Coordinates from a Photo: The USAID Mystery

Link: https://www.marsja.se/how-to-extract-gps-coordinates-from-a-photo-the-usaid-mystery/

The post How to Extract GPS Coordinates from a Photo: The USAID Mystery appeared first on Erik Marsja.
In today’s digital world, people do not just snap photos for memories; they capture hidden data.
Python Bytes: #427 Rise of the Python Lord

Link: https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/427/rise-of-the-python-lord

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

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.git-town.com/?featured_on=pythonbytes"><strong>Git Town</strong></a> solves the problem that using the Git CLI corr
Mike Driscoll: How to Download the Latest Release Assets from GitHub with Python

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2025/04/07/how-to-download-the-latest-release-assets-from-github-with-python/

I recently needed to figure out how to write an updater script for a project I was working on. The application is released on an internal GitHub page with compressed files and an executable. I needed
Real Python: Checking for Membership Using Python's "in" and "not in" Operators

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/checking-membership-in-not-in-operators/

Python’s in and not in operators allow you to quickly check if a given value is or isn’t part of a collection of values. This type of check is generally known as a membership test in Python. Therefore
Everyday Superpowers: What is event sourcing and why you should care

Link: https://everydaysuperpowers.dev/articles/what-is-event-sourcing-and-why-you-should-care/

This is the second entry in a five-part series about event sourcing:Why I Finally Embraced Event Sourcing—And Why You Should TooWhat is event sourcing and why you should carePreventing painful couplin
Trey Hunner: Which social network are we using for PyCon?

Link: https://treyhunner.com/2025/04/which-social-network-are-we-using-for-pycon/

Last year I updated my [having a great first PyCon][pycon post] post to note that Mastodon would likely be more popular than Twitter at PyCon.
My guess was correct.
During PyCon US 2024, Mastodon over
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #676: Bytearray, Underground Scripts, DjangoCon, and More (April 8, 2025)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/676

#676 – APRIL 8, 2025 View in Browser » Python’s Bytearray: A Mutable Sequence of Bytes In this tutorial, you’ll learn about Python’s bytearray, a mutable sequence of bytes for efficient binary d
Python Insider: Python 3.14.0a7, 3.13.3, 3.12.10, 3.11.12, 3.10.17 and 3.9.22 are now available

Link: https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2025/04/python-3140a7-3133-31210-31112-31017.html

Not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six releases! Is
this the most in a single day?
3.12-3.14 were regularly scheduled, and we had some security fixes to
release in 3.9-3.11 so let’s