Seth Michael Larson: Winning a bet about “six”, the Python 2 compatibility shim
Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/winning-a-bet-about-six-the-python-2-compatibility-shim?utm_campaign=rss
Exactly five years ago today Andrey Petrov and I made a bet about whether
“six”, the compatibility shim for Python 2 and 3 APIs, would
still be in the top 20 daily downloads on PyPI. I said it would,
Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/winning-a-bet-about-six-the-python-2-compatibility-shim?utm_campaign=rss
Exactly five years ago today Andrey Petrov and I made a bet about whether
“six”, the compatibility shim for Python 2 and 3 APIs, would
still be in the top 20 daily downloads on PyPI. I said it would,
sethmlarson.dev
Winning a bet about “six”, the Python 2 compatibility shim
Exactly five years ago today Andrey Petrov and I made a bet about whether
“six”, the compatibility shim for Python 2 and 3 APIs, would
still be in the top 20 daily downloads on PyPI. I said it woul...
“six”, the compatibility shim for Python 2 and 3 APIs, would
still be in the top 20 daily downloads on PyPI. I said it woul...
Django Weblog: Django security releases issued: 5.2.7, 5.1.13, and 4.2.25
Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/oct/01/security-releases/
In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team
is issuing releases for
Django 5.2.7,
Django 5.1.13, and
Django 4.2.25.
These releases address the security issues detailed below. We en
Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/oct/01/security-releases/
In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team
is issuing releases for
Django 5.2.7,
Django 5.1.13, and
Django 4.2.25.
These releases address the security issues detailed below. We en
Django Project
Django security releases issued: 5.2.7, 5.1.13, and 4.2.25
Posted by Jacob Walls on Oct. 1, 2025
Real Python: Python 3.14 Preview: Better Syntax Error Messages
Link: https://realpython.com/python314-error-messages/
Python 3.14 brings a fresh batch of improvements to error messages that’ll make debugging feel less like detective work and more like having a helpful colleague point out exactly what went wrong. Thes
Link: https://realpython.com/python314-error-messages/
Python 3.14 brings a fresh batch of improvements to error messages that’ll make debugging feel less like detective work and more like having a helpful colleague point out exactly what went wrong. Thes
Realpython
Python 3.14 Preview: Better Syntax Error Messages – Real Python
Python 3.14 includes ten improvements to error messages, which help you catch common coding mistakes and point you in the right direction.
Real Python: Quiz: Python MCP Server: Connect LLMs to Your Data
Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python-mcp/
This quiz helps you review the core ideas behind the Model Context Protocol (MCP). You will practice how MCP connects large language models with external systems, how to install it, and what role prom
Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python-mcp/
This quiz helps you review the core ideas behind the Model Context Protocol (MCP). You will practice how MCP connects large language models with external systems, how to install it, and what role prom
Realpython
Python MCP Server: Connect LLMs to Your Data Quiz – Real Python
Test your knowledge of Python MCP. Practice installation, tools, resources, transports, and how LLMs interact with MCP servers.
Real Python: Quiz: Python 3.14 Preview: Better Syntax Error Messages
Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python314-error-messages/
This quiz helps you get familiar with the upgraded error messages in Python 3.14. You’ll review new keyword typo suggestions, improved math errors, string prefix feedback, and more.
Put your understan
Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python314-error-messages/
This quiz helps you get familiar with the upgraded error messages in Python 3.14. You’ll review new keyword typo suggestions, improved math errors, string prefix feedback, and more.
Put your understan
Realpython
Python 3.14 Preview: Better Syntax Error Messages Quiz – Real Python
Explore how Python 3.14 improves error messages with clearer explanations, actionable hints, and better debugging support for developers.
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #268: Advice on Beginning to Learn Python
Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/268/
What's changed about learning Python over the last few years? What new techniques and updated advice should beginners have as they start their journey? This week on the show, Stephen Gruppetta and Mar
Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/268/
What's changed about learning Python over the last few years? What new techniques and updated advice should beginners have as they start their journey? This week on the show, Stephen Gruppetta and Mar
Realpython
Episode #268: Advice on Beginning to Learn Python – The Real Python Podcast
What's changed about learning Python over the last few years? What new techniques and updated advice should beginners have as they start their journey? This week on the show, Stephen Gruppetta and Martin Breuss return to discuss beginning to learn Python.
Luke Plant: Breaking “provably correct” Leftpad
Link: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/breaking-provably-correct-leftpad/
I don’t know much about about formal methods, so a while back I read Hillel Wayne’s post Let’s prove Leftpad with interest. However:
I know Donald Knuth’s famous quote: “Beware of bugs in the above c
Link: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/breaking-provably-correct-leftpad/
I don’t know much about about formal methods, so a while back I read Hillel Wayne’s post Let’s prove Leftpad with interest. However:
I know Donald Knuth’s famous quote: “Beware of bugs in the above c
Luke Plant's home page
Breaking “provably correct” Leftpad
Why? Because it’s fun.
Mariatta: Disabling Signup in Django allauth
Link: https://mariatta.ca/posts/disabling-signup-django-allauth/
Django allauth
Django allauth is a popular third party package that provides a lot of functionality for handling user authentication,
with support for social authentication, email verification, multi-
Link: https://mariatta.ca/posts/disabling-signup-django-allauth/
Django allauth
Django allauth is a popular third party package that provides a lot of functionality for handling user authentication,
with support for social authentication, email verification, multi-
Mariatta
Disabling Signup in Django allauth
Django allauth Django allauth is a popular third party package that provides a lot of functionality for handling user authentication, with support for social authentication, email verification, multi-factor authentication, and more.
It is a powerful library…
It is a powerful library…
Graham Dumpleton: Lazy imports using wrapt
Link: https://grahamdumpleton.me/posts/2025/10/lazy-imports-using-wrapt/
PEP 810 (explicit lazy imports) was recently released for Python. The idea with this PEP is to add explicit syntax for implementing lazy imports for modules in Python.
lazy import json
Lazily importi
Link: https://grahamdumpleton.me/posts/2025/10/lazy-imports-using-wrapt/
PEP 810 (explicit lazy imports) was recently released for Python. The idea with this PEP is to add explicit syntax for implementing lazy imports for modules in Python.
lazy import json
Lazily importi
grahamdumpleton.me
Lazy imports using wrapt - Graham Dumpleton
How to implement Python lazy import mechanism using wrapt.
Rodrigo Girão Serrão: TIL #134 – = alignment in string formatting
Link: https://mathspp.com/blog/til/-alignment-in-string-formatting
Today I learned how to use the equals sign to align numbers when doing string formatting in Python.
There are three main alignment options in Python's string formatting:
Character
Meaning
<
al
Link: https://mathspp.com/blog/til/-alignment-in-string-formatting
Today I learned how to use the equals sign to align numbers when doing string formatting in Python.
There are three main alignment options in Python's string formatting:
Character
Meaning
<
al
Mathspp
TIL 134 – = alignment in string formatting
Today I learned how to use the equals sign to align numbers when doing string formatting in Python.
Paolo Melchiorre: My DjangoCon US 2025
Link: https://www.paulox.net/2025/10/05/my-djangocon-us-2025/
A summary of my experience at DjangoCon US 2025 told through the posts I published on Mastodon during the conference.
Link: https://www.paulox.net/2025/10/05/my-djangocon-us-2025/
A summary of my experience at DjangoCon US 2025 told through the posts I published on Mastodon during the conference.
Paolo Melchiorre
My DjangoCon US 2025
A summary of my experience at DjangoCon US 2025 told through the posts I published on Mastodon during the conference.
Daniel Roy Greenfeld: Using pyinstrument to profile Air apps
Link: https://daniel.feldroy.com/posts/2025-10-using-pyinstrument-to-profile-air-apps
Air is built on FastAPI, so we could use pyinstrument's instructions modified. However, because profilers reveal a LOT of internal data, in our example we actively use an environment variable.
You wil
Link: https://daniel.feldroy.com/posts/2025-10-using-pyinstrument-to-profile-air-apps
Air is built on FastAPI, so we could use pyinstrument's instructions modified. However, because profilers reveal a LOT of internal data, in our example we actively use an environment variable.
You wil
https://daniel.feldroy.com
Using pyinstrument to profile Air apps
Quick instructions for a drop-in Air middleware for identifying performance bottlenecks in Air apps
Christian Ledermann: Python Code Quality Tools Beyond Linting
Link: https://dev.to/ldrscke/python-code-quality-tools-beyond-linting-42d8
The landscape of Python software quality tooling is currently defined by two contrasting forces: high-velocity convergence and deep specialization. The recent, rapid adoption of Ruff has solved the lo
Link: https://dev.to/ldrscke/python-code-quality-tools-beyond-linting-42d8
The landscape of Python software quality tooling is currently defined by two contrasting forces: high-velocity convergence and deep specialization. The recent, rapid adoption of Ruff has solved the lo
DEV Community
Python Code Quality Tools Beyond Linting
The rapid adoption of **Ruff** has solved the long-standing community problem of coordinating dozens of separate linters and formatters, establishing a unified, high-performance axis for standard code quality. A second category of tools continues to operate…
Paolo Melchiorre: Django: one ORM to rule all databases 💍
Link: https://www.paulox.net/2025/10/06/django-orm-comparison/
Comparing the Django ORM support across official database backends, so you don’t have to learn it the hard way.
Link: https://www.paulox.net/2025/10/06/django-orm-comparison/
Comparing the Django ORM support across official database backends, so you don’t have to learn it the hard way.
Paolo Melchiorre
Django: one ORM to rule all databases 💍
Comparing the Django ORM support across official database backends, so you don’t have to learn it the hard way.
Rodrigo Girão Serrão: Functions: a complete reference | Pydon't 🐍
Link: https://mathspp.com/blog/pydonts/functions-a-complete-reference
This article serves as a complete reference for all the non-trivial things you should know about Python functions.
Functions are the basic building block of any Python program you write, and yet, man
Link: https://mathspp.com/blog/pydonts/functions-a-complete-reference
This article serves as a complete reference for all the non-trivial things you should know about Python functions.
Functions are the basic building block of any Python program you write, and yet, man
Mathspp
Functions: a complete reference | Pydon't 🐍
This article serves as a complete reference for all the non-trivial things you should know about Python functions.
Real Python: It's Almost Time for Python 3.14 and Other Python News
Link: https://realpython.com/python-news-october-2025/
Python 3.14 nears release with new features in sight, and Django 6.0 alpha hints at what’s next for the web framework. Several PEPs have landed, including improvements to type annotations and support
Link: https://realpython.com/python-news-october-2025/
Python 3.14 nears release with new features in sight, and Django 6.0 alpha hints at what’s next for the web framework. Several PEPs have landed, including improvements to type annotations and support
Realpython
It's Almost Time for Python 3.14 and Other Python News – Real Python
The final release of Python 3.14 is almost here! Plus, there's Django 6.0 alpha, key PEP updates, PSF board results, and fresh Real Python resources.
Ari Lamstein: Visualizing 25 years of Border Patrol Data with Python
Link: https://arilamstein.com/blog/2025/10/06/visualizing-25-years-border-patrol-data-python/
I recently had the chance to speak with a statistician at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about my Streamlit app that visualizes trends in US Immigration Enforcement data (link). Our convers
Link: https://arilamstein.com/blog/2025/10/06/visualizing-25-years-border-patrol-data-python/
I recently had the chance to speak with a statistician at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about my Streamlit app that visualizes trends in US Immigration Enforcement data (link). Our convers
Ari Lamstein
Visualizing 25 years of Border Patrol Data with Python
I recently had the chance to speak with a statistician at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about my Streamlit app that visualizes trends in US Immigration Enforcement data (link). Our conv…
Talk Python to Me: #522: Data Sci Tips and Tricks from CodeCut.ai
Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/522/data-sci-tips-and-tricks-from-codecut.ai
Today we’re turning tiny tips into big wins. Khuyen Tran, creator of CodeCut.ai, has shipped hundreds of bite-size Python and data science snippets across four years. We dig into open-source tools you
Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/522/data-sci-tips-and-tricks-from-codecut.ai
Today we’re turning tiny tips into big wins. Khuyen Tran, creator of CodeCut.ai, has shipped hundreds of bite-size Python and data science snippets across four years. We dig into open-source tools you
talkpython.fm
Data Sci Tips and Tricks from CodeCut.ai
Today we’re turning tiny tips into big wins. Khuyen Tran, creator of CodeCut.ai, has shipped hundreds of bite-size Python and data science snippets across four years. We dig into open-source tools you can use right now, cleaner workflows, and why notebooks…
Brian Okken: pytest 2.6.0 release
Link: https://pythontest.com/pytest-check-2-6-0/
There’s a new release of pytest-check. Version 2.6.0.
This is a cool contribution from the community.
The problem
In July, bluenote10 reported that check.raises() doesn’t behave like pytest.raises() i
Link: https://pythontest.com/pytest-check-2-6-0/
There’s a new release of pytest-check. Version 2.6.0.
This is a cool contribution from the community.
The problem
In July, bluenote10 reported that check.raises() doesn’t behave like pytest.raises() i
Pythontest
pytest 2.6.0 release | PythonTest
check.raises() exception now has a `.value`
Seth Michael Larson: Is the "Nintendo Classics" collection a good value?
Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/nintendo-classics?utm_campaign=rss
Nintendo Classics is a collection of hundreds of retro
video games from Nintendo (and Sega) consoles from the NES to the GameCube.
Nintendo Classics is included with the Nintendo Switch Online (NSO)
s
Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/nintendo-classics?utm_campaign=rss
Nintendo Classics is a collection of hundreds of retro
video games from Nintendo (and Sega) consoles from the NES to the GameCube.
Nintendo Classics is included with the Nintendo Switch Online (NSO)
s
sethmlarson.dev
Is the "Nintendo Classics" collection a good value?
Nintendo Classics is a collection of hundreds of retro
video games from Nintendo (and Sega) consoles from the NES to the GameCube.
Nintendo Classics is included with the Nintendo Switch Online (NSO...
video games from Nintendo (and Sega) consoles from the NES to the GameCube.
Nintendo Classics is included with the Nintendo Switch Online (NSO...