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Python Insider: Python 3.12.7 released

Link: https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2024/10/python-3127-released.html

  I'm pleased to announce the release of Python 3.12.7:https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3127/ This is the seventh maintenance release of Python 3.12Python 3.12 is the newest major relea
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #649 (Oct. 1, 2024)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/649

#649 – OCTOBER 1, 2024 View in Browser » Python 3.13: Cool New Features for You to Try In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the new features in Python 3.13. You’ll take a tour of the new REPL an
PyCharm: Python 3.13 and the Latest Trends: A Developer’s Guide to 2025

Link: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2024/10/python-3-13-and-the-latest-trends-a-developer-s-guide-to-2025/

We invite you to join us in just two days time, on October 3 at 5:00 pm CEST (11:00 am EDT), for a livestream shining a spotlight on Python 3.13 and the trends shaping its development.


Our speakers:
PyCharm: Prompt AI Directly in the Editor

Link: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2024/10/prompt-ai-directly-in-the-editor/

With PyCharm, you now have the support of AI Assistant at your fingertips. You can interact with it right where you do most of your work – in the editor. 
Stuck with an error in your code? Need to add
Python Software Foundation: Python 3.13 and the Latest Trends: A Developer's Guide to 2025 - Live Stream Event

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2024/10/python-313-and-latest-trends-developers.html

Join Tania Allard, PSF Board Member, and Łukasz Langa, CPython Developer-in-Residence, for ‘Python 3.13 and the Latest Trends: A Developer’s Guide to 2025’, a live stream event hosted by Paul Everitt
Real Python: Quiz: A Guide to Modern Python String Formatting Tools

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python-formatted-output/

Test your understanding of Python’s tools for string formatting, including f-strings and the .format() method.
Take this quiz after reading our A Guide to Modern Python String Formatting Tools tutoria
Kushal Das: Thank you Gnome Nautilus scripts

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/thank-you-gnome-nautilus-scripts.html


As I upload photos to various services, I generally resize them as required
based on portrait or landscape mode. I used to do that for all the photos in a
directory and then pick which ones to use. B
Real Python: A Guide to Modern Python String Formatting Tools

Link: https://realpython.com/python-formatted-output/

When working with strings in Python, you may need to interpolate values into your string and format these values to create new strings dynamically. In modern Python, you have f-strings and the .format
scikit-learn

Link: https://blog.scikit-learn.org/2024-09-02-survey-announcement/

We are excited to announce the launch of the scikit-learn user survey! Scikit-learn
continues to evolve thanks to contributions from its diverse user community. As we
plan for future releases, we wan
Real Python: Quiz: When to Use a List Comprehension in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/list-comprehension-python/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of
List Comprehension in Python.
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to rewrite loops as list comprehensions,
how to choose when to use list c
Trey Hunner: Switching from virtualenvwrapper to direnv, Starship, and uv

Link: https://treyhunner.com/2024/10/switching-from-virtualenvwrapper-to-direnv-starship-and-uv/

Earlier this week I considered whether I should finally switch away from virtualenvwrapper to using local .venv managed by direnv.
I’ve never seriously used direnv, but I’ve been hearing Jeff and Hyne
Real Python: Quiz: Python import: Advanced Techniques and Tips

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python-import/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of
Python’s import statement and related topics.
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to use modules in your scripts and import modules dynamic
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python in Visual Studio Code – October 2024 Release

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-visual-studio-code-october-2024-release/

We’re excited to announce the October 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code!
This release includes the following announcements:

Run Python tests with coverage
Defau
Julien Tayon: PySimpleGUI : surviving the rug pull of licence part I

Link: http://beauty-of-imagination.blogspot.com/2024/09/pysimplegui-surviving-rug-pull-of.html

I liked pySimpleGUI, because as a coder that likes tkinter (the Tk/Tcl bindings) and as a former tcl/tk coder I enoyed the syntaxic sugar that was avoiding all the boiler plates required to build the
Julien Tayon: Simpler than PySimpleGUI and python tkinter: talking directly to tcl/tk

Link: http://beauty-of-imagination.blogspot.com/2024/10/simpler-than-pysimplegui-and-python.html

Well, the PySimpleGUI pull rug of licence reminded me how much dependencies are not a good thing.

Even though FreeSimpleGUI is a good approach to simpler tk/tcl binding in python : we can do better,