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Python Insider: Python 3.14.0rc2 and 3.13.7 are go!

Link: https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2025/08/python-3140rc2-and-3137-are-go.html

Not one but two expedited releases! 🎉 🎉
Python 3.14.0rc2
It’s the
final 🪄 penultimate 🪄 3.14 release candidate!
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140rc2/
Note: rc2 was originally plann
Glyph Lefkowitz: The Futzing Fraction

Link: https://blog.glyph.im/2025/08/futzing-fraction.html

The most optimistic vision of generative AI1 is that it will relieve us of
the tedious, repetitive elements of knowledge work so that we can get to work
on the really interesting problems that such te
Seth Michael Larson: Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack is great for digital and physical GameCube players

Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/nintendo-switch-online-expansion-pack-is-great-for-digital-and-physical-gamecube-players?utm_campaign=rss


Nintendo just announced that the GameCube game “Chibi Robo!” would be coming in exactly one week to Nintendo
Switch Online + Expansion Pack (NSO+).
Chibi Robo is known for being a hidden gem in the G
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #261: Selecting Inheritance or Composition in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/261/

When considering an object-oriented programming problem, should you prefer inheritance or composition? Why wouldn't it just be simpler to use functions? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this we
John Cook: Converting very long strings to integers in Python

Link: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/08/15/very-long-string-to-int/

In the process of writing the previous post, I wanted to confirm that the number in the post

really is prime. This was useful in debugging my manual conversion of the image to text: errors did not re
Test and Code: 238: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Link: https://testandcode.com/episodes/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish

A farewell to a fun 10 years.Also, I should have tested it better. :)In the audio I got the numbers wrong.  Doh!This is episode 238, not 237. Oh well.I'll still be around, of course, at:pythontest.com
Made With Mu: RIP Mu

Link: https://madewith.mu/mu/users/2025/08/16/rip.html

Late last year we announced we’d retire Mu. The core maintainers have all moved
onto other things, our lives have changed and the time we have available to
maintain Mu has significantly decreased. Per
Seth Michael Larson: How many RSS subscribers do I have?

Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/how-many-rss-subscribers-do-i-have?utm_campaign=rss

RSS is super rad way to consume internet content (“like a newspaper”). This blog gets syndicated via RSS and an email newsletter. Unlike with my newsletter, it's not clear how many
people are reading