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Mark Dufour: Shed Skin restricted-Python-to-C++ compiler v0.9.11

Link: http://shed-skin.blogspot.com/2025/12/shed-skin-restricted-python-to-c.html

I have just released version 0.9.11 of Shed Skin, a restricted-Python-to-C++ compiler. Most importantly, it adds support for Python 3.14. It also adds support for many 3.x features that were not yet i
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #276: Exploring Quantum Computing & Python Frameworks

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/276/

What are the recent advances in the field of quantum computing and high-performance computing? And what Python tools can you use to develop programs that run on quantum computers? This week on the sho
Zato Blog: Automate Microsoft 365 Like a Pro: Skip the OAuth Headaches

Link: https://zato.io/en/blog/automate-microsoft-365-in-python.html


Automate Microsoft 365 Like a Pro: Skip the OAuth Headaches


2025-12-08, by Dariusz Suchojad


Are you tired of fighting with Microsoft 365 APIs and complex authentication flows? This
practical tu
Ahmed Bouchefra: Is AI Taking Your Dev Job? Here’s The Fix (Plus a 100% Free Python Course)

Link: https://efficientcoder.net/is-ai-taking-dev-job-free-python-course)/

Things feel different in tech right now, don’t they?
A few years back, landing a dev or data role felt like winning the lottery. You learned some syntax, built a portfolio, and you were set. But in 20
Reuven Lerner: 30 things I’ve learned from 30 years as a Python freelancer

Link: https://lerner.co.il/2025/12/08/30-things-ive-learned-from-30-years-in-business/

30 years! It’s hard to believe, but it was in December 1995 (i.e., 30 years ago) that I went freelance, giving up a stable corporate paycheck. And somehow, I’ve managed to make it work: During that ti
Real Python: Lazy Imports Land in Python and Other Python News for December 2025

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

A lot happened last month in the world of Python! The core developers pushed ahead on Python 3.15, accepting PEP 810 to bring explicit lazy imports to the language. PyPI tightened account security, Dj
Seth Michael Larson: Deprecations via warnings don’t work for Python libraries

Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/deprecations-via-warnings-dont-work-for-python-libraries?utm_campaign=rss

Last week urllib3 v2.6.0 was released which contained removals for
several APIs that we've known were problematic since 2019 and
have been deprecated since 2022. The deprecations
were marked in the do
Hugo van Kemenade: Steering Council election

Link: https://hugovk.dev/blog/2025/steering-council-election/

The Python Steering Council election is on!
This year six candidates are running for the five seats. See
PEP 8107 for links to their nomination statements
and PEP 13 for more on Python language govern
Armin Ronacher: Let’s Destroy The European Union!

Link: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/9/fixing-europe/

Elon Musk is not
happy
with the EU fining his X platform and is currently on a tweet rampage
complaining about it. Among other things, he wants the whole EU to be
abolished. He sadly is hardly the f
Real Python: Using Functional Programming in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/using-functional-programming/

Functional programming is a programming paradigm in which the primary method of computation is the evaluation of functions. But how does Python support functional programming?
In this video course, yo
Django Weblog: Online Community Working Group GitHub repo and project

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/dec/09/online-community-working-group-github-repo-and-pro/

The Online Community Working Group has introduced a new GitHub repository designed to manage and track ideas, suggestions, and improvements across Django's various online community platforms.
Introduc
EuroPython Society: General Assembly 2025

Link: https://www.europython-society.org/general-assembly-2025/

We’re excited to invite you to this year’s General Assembly meeting! We’ll gather on Wednesday, 17 December 2025 20:00 CET, held online via Zoom. EPS membership is required to participate and addition
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #712: Quantum Computing in Python, DataFrame Libraries, Django 6, and More (Dec. 9, 2025)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/712

#712 – DECEMBER 9, 2025 View in Browser » Exploring Quantum Computing & Python Frameworks What are the recent advances in the field of quantum computing and high-performance computing? And what
Eli Bendersky: Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"

Link: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/revisiting-lets-build-a-compiler/

There's an old compiler-building tutorial that has become part of the field's
lore: the Let's Build a Compiler
series by Jack Crenshaw (published between 1988 and 1995).
I ran into it in 2003
and was
Real Python: Quiz: Python Inner Functions: What Are They Good For?

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/inner-functions-what-are-they-good-for/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the Python Inner Functions: What Are They Good For? tutorial.
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how inner functions work with enclosing scope
Seth Michael Larson: Extracting Nintendo Switch “Play Activity” with OCR

Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/nintendo-switch-play-activity-ocr?utm_campaign=rss

Despite considering myself a “gamer”,
I realized I had only played ~5 hours of video-games
in the whole year 2022 and ~6 hours in 2021. Honestly, these numbers
made me a bit sad to see... You can't “i