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The Python Coding Stack: Need a Constant in Python? Enums Can Come in Useful

Link: https://www.thepythoncodingstack.com/p/python-enums-constants

Python doesn’t have constants. You probably learnt this early on when learning Python. Unlike many other programming languages, you can’t define a constant in Python. All variables are variable!“Ah, b
Real Python: Python's deque: Implement Efficient Queues and Stacks

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

You can use Python’s deque for efficient appends and pops at both ends of a sequence-like data type. These capabilities are critical when you need to implement queue and stack data structures that ope
Wingware: Wing Python IDE Version 11.0.7 - January 12, 2026

Link: https://wingware.com/news/2026-01-12

Wing Python IDE version 11.0.7 has been released. It improves performance of Search in
Files on some machines, fixes using stdout.writelines in unit tests run from the
Testing tool, reduces CPU used b
Python Bytes: #465 Stack Overflow is Cooked

Link: https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/465/stack-overflow-is-cooked

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Talk Python to Me: #534: diskcache: Your secret Python perf weapon

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/534/diskcache-your-secret-python-perf-weapon

Your cloud SSD is sitting there, bored, and it would like a job. Today we’re putting it to work with DiskCache, a simple, practical cache built on SQLite that can speed things up without spinning up R
Python Software Foundation: Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/12/anthropic-invests-in-python.html

We are thrilled to announce that Anthropic has entered into a two-year partnership with the Python Software Foundation (PSF) to contribute a landmark total of $1.5 million to support the foundation’s
Zato Blog: SSH API Service in Python

Link: https://zato.io/en/blog/ssh-api-service.html


SSH API Service in Python


2026-01-12, by Dariusz Suchojad


This is a quick guide on how to turn SSH commands into a REST API service. The use-case may be remote administration
of devices or equi
Real Python: Intro to Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/intro-object-oriented-programming/

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is one of the most significant and essential topics in programming. This course will give you a foundational conceptual understanding of object-oriented programming t
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The next edit suggestions feature is now enabled in all JetBrains IDEs for JetBrains AI Pro, AI Ultimate, and AI Enterprise subscribers.
Yes, you read that right! JetBrains-native diff suggestions are
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #717: Unit Testing Performance, Cursor, Recursive match, and More (Jan. 13, 2026)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/717

#717 – JANUARY 13, 2026 View in Browser » Unit Testing Your Code’s Performance Testing your code is important, but not just for correctness also for performance. One approach is to check perform
Armin Ronacher: Porting MiniJinja to Go With an Agent

Link: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/14/minijinja-go-port/

Turns out you can just port things now. I already attempted this experiment in
the summer, but it turned out to be a bit too much for what I had time for.
However, things have advanced since. Yester
scikit-learn: Enhancing user experience through interactive inspection

Link: https://blog.scikit-learn.org/updates/enhancing-user-experience/

Author: Dea María Léon

User experience (UX) has always been an important focus for scikit-learn.
As we know, UX encompasses many aspects, but here we will focus
Real Python: Quiz: How to Create a Django Project

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/django-setup/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of
creating a Django project.
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to create and activate a virtual environment, install Django and pin your de
Gaël Varoquaux: Stepping up as probabl’s CSO to supercharge scikit-learn and its ecosystem

Link: https://gael-varoquaux.info/programming/stepping-up-as-probabls-cso-to-supercharge-scikit-learn-and-its-ecosystem.html


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Probabl’s get together, in falls 2025

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m stepping up as Probabl’s CSO (Chief Science Officer) to supercharge
scikit-learn and its ecosystem, pursuing my dreams
Real Python: How to Create a Django Project

Link: https://realpython.com/django-setup/

Before you can start building your Django web application, you need to set up your Django project. In this guide you’ll learn how to create a new Django project in four straightforward steps and only
Mike Driscoll: How to Type Hint a Decorator in Python

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2026/01/14/how-to-type-hint-a-decorator-in-python/

Decorators are a concept that can trip up new Python users. You may find this definition helpful: A decorator is a function that takes in another function and adds new functionality to it without modi
Django Weblog: DSF member of the month - Omar Abou Mrad

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/jan/15/dsf-member-of-the-month-omar-abou-mrad/

For January 2026, we welcome Omar Abou Mrad as our DSF member of the month! ⭐

Omar is a helper in Django Discord server, he has helped and continuesly help folks around the world in their Django jour
Daniel Roy Greenfeld: Writing tools to download everything

Link: https://daniel.feldroy.com/posts/2026-01-downloading-everything

Over the years, Audrey and I have accumulated photos across a variety of services. Flickr, SmugMug, and others all have chunks of our memories sitting on their servers. Some of these services we haven
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #280: Considering Fast and Slow in Python Programming

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/280/

How often have you heard about the speed of Python? What's actually being measured, where are the bottlenecks---development time or run time---and which matters more for productivity? Christopher Trud
Python Morsels: Self-concatenation

Link: https://www.pythonmorsels.com/self-concatenation/

Strings and other sequences can be multiplied by numbers to self-concatenate them.



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Concatenating strings to numbers doesn't work
Multiplying strings by numbers
Self-concatenation