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Python Insider: Rust for CPython (Python Language Summit 2026)

Link: https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-rust-for-cpython/

David Hewitt shares a status update, first module, and potential acceptance criteria for the Rust for CPython project
Python Insider: Spicycrab (Python Language Summit 2026)

Link: https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-spicycrab/

Kushal Das shows off Spicycrab, a Python-to-Rust transpiler for Python users who need performance without learning Rust or leaving Python
Python Insider: Free-Threaded Python Post-Era (Python Language Summit 2026)

Link: https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-free-threading-post-era/

Tobias Wrigstad, Fridtjof Stoldt, and Donghee Na propose a safe and performant, high-level concurrency model for free-threaded Python
Python Insider: Python Language Summit 2026

Link: https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026/

The 2026 Python Language Summit was hosted in Kraków, Poland as part of EuroPython 2026. There were 15 talks covering free-threading, Rust, garbage collection, type annotations, and more.
Graham Dumpleton: Getting to know Tachyon

Link: https://grahamdumpleton.me/posts/2026/10/getting-to-know-tachyon/

Python 3.15 ships with a new profiler. It is called Tachyon, it lives in the standard library as the profiling.sampling module, and unlike cProfile it is a sampling profiler rather than a tracing one.
Python Insider: Python 3.10.22, 3.11.17, 3.12.15, 3.13.16 and 3.14.8 are now available!

Link: https://blog.python.org/2026/10/python-31022-31117/

Security updates across Python 3.10–3.14, the final maintenance release of 3.13, and a farewell to Python 3.10.
Django Weblog: Nominate Someone for the 2026 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/oct/01/nominate-someone-for-the-2026-malcolm-prize/

Hello Everyone 👋
It is that time of year again when we recognize someone from our community in memory of our friend Malcolm.
Malcolm was an early core contributor to Django and had a huge influence o
"Michiel's Blog": Monitoring my Samsung smart washing machine without a cloud

Link: https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/samsung-monitoring-my-washer-without-a-cloud.html

Two weeks ago I gave a talk at
Python Leiden on how I
monitor my Samsung Smart washer without using Samsung SmartThings.
As Samsung announced
using their SmartThings API will start costing USD 5 per m
EuroPython: Humans of EuroPython: Diego Russo

Link: https://blog.europython.eu/humans-of-ep-diego/

This week we’d love to spotlight Diego Russo, a member of the Programme Team, and his contributions to EuroPython 2026.In addition to helping ensure an interesting and varied conference programme, Die
Talk Python to Me: #565: Tachyon, Python 3.15's Built-in Sampling Profiler

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/565/tachyon-python-3.15s-built-in-sampling-profiler

Do you know what's actually slow in your Python app? Or are you guessing? Until now, profiling Python meant a tracing profiler that made your code 2 to 3 times slower. Or a third-party tool that broke
Brian Okken: PyBay 2026 Talk info and slides

Link: https://pythontest.com/tdd-pybay-2026/

Talk Title: Is TDD even relevant anymore? Yes, but don’t be dumb about it.
Event: PyBay 2026
Slides: tdd-pybay-2026.pdf
Mark Dufour: Shed Skin v0.9.14, v1.0 coming soon!

Link: http://shed-skin.blogspot.com/2026/10/shed-skin-v0914-v10-coming-soon.html

I have just released version 0.9.14 of Shed Skin, a restricted-python to C++ transpiler. Shed Skin allows one to effectively convert (or transpile) pure Python code to highly optimized machine code. T
Armin Ronacher: What is Codemode

Link: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/10/6/codemode/

More than a year ago I wrote a few posts here that recommended people not to
load custom tools into their context (or
MCP servers) but to just
use more scripts. Most importantly I wrote that Code Is
Django Weblog: Django security releases issued: 6.1.2, 6.0.9, and 5.2.18

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/oct/06/security-releases/

In accordance with our security release policy,
the Django team is issuing releases for
Django 6.1.2, Django
6.0.9, and Django
5.2.18.
These releases address the security issues detailed below. We enc