Planet Python RSS
217 subscribers
16.6K links
Unofficial Planet Python RSS feed from planetpython.org. Maintained by @cfinnberg
Download Telegram
Django Weblog: DjangoCon Africa 2025 Heads to Arusha 🇹🇿

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jul/25/djangocon-africa-2025-heads-to-arusha/

We’re excited to share that DjangoCon Africa is returning this year — and this time we’re heading to Arusha, Tanzania from August 11–15, 2025! 🎉

Arusha city view with Mount Meru in the background, cr
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #258: Supporting the Python Package Index

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/258/

What goes into supporting more than 650,000 projects and nearly a million users of the Python Package Index? This week on the show, we speak with Maria Ashna about her first year as the inaugural PyPI
Armin Ronacher: From Async/Await to Virtual Threads

Link: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/26/virtual-threads/

Last November I wrote a post about how the programming interface of threads
beats the one of async/await. In May,
Mark Shannon brought up the idea of virtual threads for
Python
on Python’s discussion
Daniel Roy Greenfeld: TIL: How to type args and kwargs

Link: https://daniel.feldroy.com/posts/til-2025-07-how-to-type-args-and-kwargs

An oddity of my work for a while has been that I haven't used *args and **kwargs with type annotations. Recently, however I've been working on code that leans on those things a lot. And I've been igno
Luke Plant: Why I’m not letting the juniors use GenAI for coding

Link: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-im-not-letting-the-juniors-use-genai-for-coding/

In my current project, I am training some junior developers — some of them pretty much brand new developers — and one of the first rules I gave them was “ensure that Copilot (or any other AI assistant
Reuven Lerner: How to conference

Link: https://lerner.co.il/2025/07/27/how-to-conference/

I love conferences. I enjoy everything about them — the nonstop stream of learning, the chance to see old friends and meet new ones, and just generally to be around a lot of interesting, smart, and fu
John Cook: Monero’s elliptic curve

Link: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/07/27/moneros-elliptic-curve/


Digital signatures often use elliptic curves. For example, Bitcoin and Ethereum use the elliptic curve secp256k1 [1]. This post will discuss the elliptic curve Ed25519 [2] using in Monero and in many
Daniel Roy Greenfeld: Unpack for keyword arguments

Link: https://daniel.feldroy.com/posts/2025-07-unpack-for-keyword-arguments

Previously I wrote a TIL on how to better type annotate callables with *args and **kwargs - in essence you ignore the container and worry just about the content of the container. This makes sense, as
Anwesha Das: Joy of automation

Link: http://anweshadas.in/joy-of-automation/

After 145+ commits spread over multiple PRs, 450+ conversations and feedback, and accountable communication via several different communication mediums spanning over 2 years, the Ansible Release Manag
Real Python: Quiz: Bitwise Operators in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/bitwise-operators/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the Bitwise Operators in Python.
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to use Python’s bitwise AND (&), OR (|), XOR (^), NOT (~), left and ri