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Quansight Labs Blog: Support for ABI3 packages in conda!

Link: https://labs.quansight.org/blog/conda-abi3

See how Point72 teamed up with Quansight to fund support for ABI3 packages in the conda ecosystem.
Glyph Lefkowitz: R0ML’s Ratio

Link: https://blog.glyph.im/2025/08/r0mls-ratio.html

My father, also known as
“R0ML” once described a methodology for evaluating
volume purchases that I think needs to be more popular.
If you are a hardcore fan, you might know that he has already descri
Django Weblog: Django’s accessibility contributing guide

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/aug/09/django-accessibility-contributing-guide/

The Django accessibility team is excited to announce that our accessibility contribution guidelines are now live in the documentation 🎉
These new guidelines are designed to support contributors in mak
Real Python: Quiz: Python Basics: Setting Up Python

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/setting-up-python/

In this quiz, you will review the key steps for installing Python on Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu Linux. You will recall what the PATH environment variable is for, and what Python distribution to choose
Python Software Foundation: The PSF has paused our Grants Program

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-psf-has-paused-our-grants-program.html

TL;DR:Effective August 1st, 2025, the PSF is temporarily pausing our Grants Program after reaching our 2025 grant budget cap earlier than expected. We know how important this program is to many in our
Python Software Foundation: Unmasking Phantom Dependencies with Software Bill-of-Materials as Ecosystem Neutral Metadata

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/08/unmasking-phantom-dependencies-with.html

The Python Software Foundation Security Developer-in-Residence, Seth Larson, published a new white paper with Alpha-Omega about the work to solve the "Phantom Dependency" problem. The white paper deta
Python Software Foundation: Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q2 2025! 🎉

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/08/announcing-python-software-foundation.html

The PSF is pleased to announce its second batch of PSF Fellows for 2025! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q2! The following people continue to do amazing things for the Python community:Hamdalah
Peter Bengtsson: Combining Django signals with in-memory LRU cache

Link: http://www.peterbe.com/plog/combining-django-signals-with-in-memory-lru-cache

It's easy to combine functools.lru_cache with Django signals to get a good memoization pattern on Django ORM queries.
Go Deh: Go Deh celebrations!

Link: http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/2025/08/go-deh-celebrations.html

   This year it's: Fifty years since I first learned to program!Thirty years of programming Python!And In July, this blog topped one million views since its inception! I first learned to program by cr
Real Python: Python 3.14 Release Candidate Lands: Faster Code, Smarter Concurrency

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

Last month, Python 3.14 reached its first release candidate, pushing the interpreter past beta and onto the home stretch toward its final release on October 7. But that headline was only the start—new
Ari Lamstein: New Tutorial: Building Data Apps in Python With Streamlit

Link: https://arilamstein.com/blog/2025/08/11/new-tutorial-building-data-apps-in-python-with-streamlit/

I just created a tutorial on building data apps in Python with Streamlit. In many ways, this is the resource I wish I had when I started working with Streamlit two years ago. You can take it for free
Django Weblog: Welcome Our New Fellow - Jacob Tyler Walls

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/aug/11/welcome-our-new-fellow-jacob-tyler-walls/

We are pleased to welcome Jacob Tyler Walls as the newest member of the Django Fellowship team. Jacob joins Natalia Bidart and Sarah Boyce, who continue in their roles as Django Fellows.
Jacob is a fu
Everyday Superpowers: Get started with event sourcing today

Link: https://everydaysuperpowers.dev/articles/get-started-with-event-sourcing-today/

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
Talk Python to Me: #515: Durable Python Execution with Temporal

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/515/durable-python-execution-with-temporal

What if your code was crash-proof? That's the value prop for a framework called Temporal. Temporal is a durable execution platform that enables developers to build scalable applications without sacrif
Test and Code: 237: FastAPI Cloud - Sebastián Ramírez

Link: https://testandcode.com/episodes/fastapi-cloud

In this episode, Brian interviews Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI, about its rapid rise in developer popularity and the launch of FastAPI Cloud. Sebastian explains how FastAPI Cloud addresses de
Python Engineering at Microsoft: mssql-python vs pyodbc: Benchmarking SQL Server Performance

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/mssql-python-vs-pyodbc-benchmarking-sql-server-performance/




Reviewed by Imran Masud and Sumit Sarabhai
When it comes to working with Microsoft SQL Server in Python, pyodbc has long been the de facto driver. It’s mature, trusted and has been serving the comm
Real Python: Working With Python's .__dict__ Attribute

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/working-dict-attributes/

Python’s .__dict__ is a special attribute in classes and instances that acts as a namespace, mapping attribute names to their corresponding values. You can use .__dict__ to inspect, modify, add, or de
Python Morsels: Checking for string prefixes and suffixes in Python

Link: https://www.pythonmorsels.com/prefixes-and-suffixes/

Python's strings have methods for checking whether a string starts or ends with specific text and for removing prefixes and suffixes.



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PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #694: Performance, Classes, t-strings, and More (Aug. 12, 2025)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/694

#694 – AUGUST 12, 2025 View in Browser » Python Performance Myths and Fairy Tales This post summarizes a talk by Antonio Cuni who is a long time contributor to PyPy, the alternate Python interpr