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eGenix.com: Python Meeting Düsseldorf - 2025-04-09

Link: https://www.egenix.com/company/news/Python-Meeting-Duesseldorf-2025-04-09

The following text is in German, since we're announcing a regional user group meeting in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Ankündigung
Das nächste Python Meeting Düsseldorf findet an folgendem Termin statt:

09.0
Mike Driscoll: Textual – How to Add Widgets to a Container

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2025/04/01/textual-how-to-add-widgets-to-a-container/

Textual is an excellent Python package for creating beautiful user interfaces in your terminal. By default, Textual will arrange your widgets starting at the top of the screen and appending them in a
Real Python: Building a Code Image Generator With Python

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/code-image-generator/

If you’re active on social media, then you know that images and videos are popular forms of content. As a programmer, you mainly work with text, so sharing the content that you create on a daily basis
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #675: Optimization, DuckDB, Outliers, and More (April 1, 2025)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/675

#675 – APRIL 1, 2025 View in Browser » An April Fool’s free issue. All content was curated before April 1st and is guranteed to be April Fool’s free. Optimizing With Generators, Expressions, &
Test and Code: Python 3.14 won't repeat with pytest-repeat

Link: https://testandcode.com/episodes/python-3-14-wont-repeat-with-pytest-repeat

pytest-repeat is a pytest plugin that makes it easy to repeat a single test, or multiple tests, a specific number of times.  Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work with Python 3.14, even though there
Python GUIs: Getting Started with Streamlit — Build your first Streamlit app and explore some basic features

Link: https://www.pythonguis.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-streamlit/

Streamlit is an open-source Python library that makes it easy to create and share custom web apps for machine learning and data science. In this tutorial we'll take a first look at Streamlit, installi
Django Weblog: Django security releases issued: 5.1.8 and 5.0.14

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/apr/02/security-releases/

In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team
is issuing releases for
Django 5.1.8 and
Django 5.0.14.
These releases address the security issues detailed below. We encourage all
user
Django Weblog: Django 5.2 released

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/apr/02/django-52-released/

The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 5.2.
The release notes
showcase a composite of new features. A few highlights are:

All models are automatically imported in the shell by def
Real Python: How to Strip Characters From a Python String

Link: https://realpython.com/python-strip/

By default, Python’s .strip() method removes whitespace characters from both ends of a string. To remove different characters, you can pass a string as an argument that specifies a set of characters t
Seth Michael Larson: Nintendo Switch 2: DRM, expensive, and GameCube

Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/switch-2-drm-expensive-and-gamecube?utm_campaign=rss

So the Switch 2 got announced in a Nintendo Direct yesterday. The event
itself was essentially an unending series of incredible new
information about the Switch 2 console and games. Here are my mixed
Python GUIs: Build a Desktop Sticky Notes Application with PySide6 — Create moveable desktop reminders with Python

Link: https://www.pythonguis.com/examples/pyside6-desktop-sticky-notes/

Do you ever find yourself needing to take a quick note of some information but have nowhere to put it? Then this app is for you! This virtual sticky notes (or Post-it notes) app allows you to keep sho
Mike Driscoll: ANN: Spring Python eBook Sale 2025

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2025/04/03/ann-spring-python-ebook-sale-2025/

I am running a Spring sale on all my currently published Python books. You can get 25% off any of my complete books by using this code at checkout: MSON4QP

 
Learn Python Today!
I have books on the f
Everyday Superpowers: Why I Finally Embraced Event Sourcing—And Why You Should Too

Link: https://everydaysuperpowers.dev/articles/why-i-finally-embraced-event-sourcingand-why-you-should-too/

This is the first entry in a five-part series about event sourcing:Why I Finally Embraced Event Sourcing—And Why You Should TooWhat is event sourcing and why you should carePreventing painful coupling
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #245: GUIs & TUIs: Choosing a User Interface for Your Python Project

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/245/

What are the current Python graphical user interface libraries? Should you build everything in the terminal and create a text-based user interface instead? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this
Giampaolo Rodola: Speedup pytest startup

Link: https://gmpy.dev/blog/2025/speedup-pytest-startup

Preface: the migration to pytest
Last year, after 17 years since the inception of the project, I decided to
start adopting pytest into psutil (see
psutil/#2446). The
advantages over unittest are numer
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2025 Release

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-visual-studio-code-april-2025-release/

We’re excited to announce the April 2025 release of the Python, Pylance and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code!
This release includes the following announcements:

Enhanced Python development u
TechBeamers Python: Code Without Limits: The Best Online Python Compilers for Every Dev

Link: https://techbeamers.com/the-best-online-python-compilers/

Explore the top online Python compilers for free. With these, your development environment is always just one browser tab away. Imagine this: You’re sitting in a coffee shop when inspiration strikes.
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Build AI agents with Python in #AgentsHack

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/agentshack-python/

2025 is the year of AI agents! But what exactly is an agent, and how can you build one? Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just starting out, this free three-week virtual hackathon is your chance
Eli Bendersky: Reproducing word2vec with JAX

Link: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/reproducing-word2vec-with-jax/

The word2vec model was proposed in a 2013 paper by Google researchers called
"Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space",
and was further refined by additional papers from the same