Django Weblog: Django’s accessibility contributing guide

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/aug/09/django-accessibility-contributing-guide/

The Django accessibility team is excited to announce that our accessibility contribution guidelines are now live in the documentation 🎉
These new guidelines are designed to support contributors in mak

Real Python: Quiz: Python Basics: Setting Up Python

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/setting-up-python/

In this quiz, you will review the key steps for installing Python on Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu Linux. You will recall what the PATH environment variable is for, and what Python distribution to choose

Python Software Foundation: The PSF has paused our Grants Program

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-psf-has-paused-our-grants-program.html

TL;DR:Effective August 1st, 2025, the PSF is temporarily pausing our Grants Program after reaching our 2025 grant budget cap earlier than expected. We know how important this program is to many in our

Python Software Foundation: Unmasking Phantom Dependencies with Software Bill-of-Materials as Ecosystem Neutral Metadata

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/08/unmasking-phantom-dependencies-with.html

The Python Software Foundation Security Developer-in-Residence, Seth Larson, published a new white paper with Alpha-Omega about the work to solve the "Phantom Dependency" problem. The white paper deta

Python Software Foundation: Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q2 2025! 🎉

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/08/announcing-python-software-foundation.html

The PSF is pleased to announce its second batch of PSF Fellows for 2025! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q2! The following people continue to do amazing things for the Python community:Hamdalah

Peter Bengtsson: Combining Django signals with in-memory LRU cache

Link: http://www.peterbe.com/plog/combining-django-signals-with-in-memory-lru-cache

It's easy to combine functools.lru_cache with Django signals to get a good memoization pattern on Django ORM queries.

Go Deh: Go Deh celebrations!

Link: http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/2025/08/go-deh-celebrations.html

   This year it's: Fifty years since I first learned to program!Thirty years of programming Python!And In July, this blog topped one million views since its inception! I first learned to program by cr