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EuroPython: July Newsletter: Can’t make it to Prague? Join Us Online!

Link: https://blog.europython.eu/july-newsletter-cant-make-it-to-prague-join-us-online/

Hello, Pythonistas! 🐍EuroPython is coming fast, and we’re back with news about what you can yet do so you don’t miss any opportunities to learn and enjoy even more! 🎉🧑‍💻 Can’t make it to Prague? Join
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #257: Comparing Real-World Python Performance Against Big O

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/257/

How does the performance of an algorithm hold up when you put it into a realistic context? Where might Python code defy Big O notation expectations when using a profiler? Christopher Trudeau is back o
Python Anywhere: Direct interaction of LLM chats with PythonAnywhere via the Model Context Protocol

Link: https://blog.pythonanywhere.com/220/

tl;dr
Check out the instructions on
GitHub
and connect your Claude Desktop, GitHub Copilot, Cursor or any similar tool
supporting MCP to PythonAnywhere directly.
PyBites: From SQL to SQLModel: A Cleaner Way to Work with Databases in Python

Link: https://pybit.es/articles/from-sql-to-sqlmodel-a-cleaner-way-to-work-with-databases-in-python/

SQLModel is a library that lets you interact with databases through Python code with Python objects and type annotations instead of writing direct SQL queries.
Created by the same author of the extrem
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python in Visual Studio Code – July 2025 Release

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

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

Python Environments included a
Django Weblog: Happy 20th birthday Django!

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jul/13/happy-20th-birthday-django/

On July 13th 2005, Jacob Kaplan-Moss made the first commit to the public repository that would become Django. Twenty years and 400+ releases later, here we are – Happy 20th birthday Django! 🎉
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Python Engineering at Microsoft: Announcing Full Cross-Platform Support for the mssql-python Driver

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/announcing-full-cross-platform-support-for-the-mssql-python-driver/


After the successful release of Public Preview of mssql-python driver, we’re thrilled to announce a major milestone for the mssql-python driver: full support for all three major operating systems—Win
Real Python: Quiz: How to Debug Common Python Errors

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/debug-python-errors/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of How to Debug Common Python Errors.
Debugging means identifying, analyzing, and resolving issues in your Python code. You’ll revisit reading tracebacks,
Talk Python to Me: #513: Stories from Python History

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/513/stories-from-python-history

Why do people list to this podcast? Sure, they're looking for technical explorations of new libraries and ideas. But often it's to hear the story behind them. If that speaks to you, then I have the pe
Real Python: How to Debug Common Python Errors

Link: https://realpython.com/debug-python-errors/

Python debugging involves identifying and fixing errors in your code using tools like tracebacks, print() calls, breakpoints, and tests. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to interpret error messages,
death and gravity: Inheritance over composition, sometimes

Link: https://death.andgravity.com/over-composition

In Process​Thread​Pool​Executor: when I‍/‍O becomes CPU-bound,
we built a hybrid concurrent.​futures executor
that runs tasks in multiple threads on all available CPUs,
bypassing Python's global inter
Seth Michael Larson: Email has algorithmic curation, too

Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/email-has-algorithmic-curation-too?utm_campaign=rss

Communication technologies should optimally be reliable, especially when both parties have opted-in to consistent reliable delivery. I don't want someone else to decide whether I receive a text messag
Ned Batchelder: 2048: iterators and iterables

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202507/2048_iterators_and_iterables.html

I wrote a low-tech terminal-based version of the
classic 2048 game and had some interesting difficulties
with iterators along the way.2048 has a 4×4 grid with sliding tiles. Because the tiles can sli
Real Python: Getting Started With marimo Notebooks

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/getting-started-with-marimo-notebooks/

marimo notebooks redefine the notebook experience by offering a reactive environment that addresses the limitations of traditional linear notebooks. With marimo, you can seamlessly reproduce and share
Ruslan Spivak: Book Notes: The Dark Art of Linear Algebra by Seth Braver — Chapter 1 Review

Link: https://ruslanspivak.com/bb06/


“Mathematics is the art of reducing any problem to linear algebra.” — William Stein

If you’ve ever looked at a vector and thought, “Just a column of numbers, right?”, this chapter will change that.
Mike Driscoll: Creating TUI Applications with Textual and Python is Released

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2025/07/15/creating-tuis-with-textual-and-python-is-released/

Learn how to create text-based user interfaces (TUIs) using Python and the amazing Textual package.

Textual is a rapid application development framework for your terminal or web browser. You can buil
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #690: JIT, __init__, dis, and That's Not It (July 15, 2025)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/690

#690 – JULY 15, 2025 View in Browser » Reflections on 2 Years of CPython’s JIT Compiler Ken is one of the contributors to CPython’s JIT compiler. This retrospective talks about what is going wel
Mike Driscoll: An Intro to Asciimatics – Another Python TUI Package

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2025/07/16/an-intro-to-asciimatics-another-python-tui-package/

Text-based user interfaces (TUIs) have gained significant popularity in recent years. Even Rust has its own library called Ratatui after all. Python has several different TUI packages to choose from.