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Python Software Foundation: Announcing PSF Community Service Award Recipients!

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/05/announcing-psf-community-service-award.html

The PSF Community Service Awards (CSAs) are a formal way for the PSF Board of Directors to offer recognition of work which, in its opinion, significantly improves the Foundation's fulfillment of its m
Django Weblog: 2026 Django Developers Survey

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/may/12/2026-django-developers-survey/

The Django Software Foundation is once again partnering with JetBrains to run the 2026 Django Developers Survey 🌈
It’s an important metric of Django usage and is immensely helpful to guide future tech
Real Python: Building Type-Safe LLM Agents With Pydantic AI

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/building-type-safe-llm-agents-with-pydantic-ai/

Pydantic AI is a Python framework for building LLM agents that return validated, structured outputs using Pydantic models. Instead of parsing raw strings from LLMs, you get type-safe objects with auto
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #734: Dunder-Gets, Django Tasks in Prod, Codex CLI, and More (2026-05-12)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/734

#734 – MAY 12, 2026 View in Browser » Do You Get It Now? Learn about Python’s .__getitem__(), .__getattr__(), .__getattribute__(), and .__get__(): how they’re different and where to use them. ST
Marcos Dione: Monitoring Apache with SQL and Grafana

Link: https://www.grulic.org.ar/~mdione/glob/posts/monitoring-apache-with-sql-and-grafana/

Ever since my last job I have been wanting to make this. I think it's not the first time I do it, but
for one reason or another, I did it (again?) in two evenings only.
In that job we had an internet
Python GUIs: How to Add Custom Widgets to Qt Designer — Use widget promotion to integrate your own Python widgets into Qt Designer layouts

Link: https://www.pythonguis.com/faq/add-widgets-in-a-kind-of-library-show-in-the-qt-designer/


Can I use custom widgets in Qt Designer?

When you're building Python GUI applications with PyQt6 and Qt Designer, you'll reach a point where the built-in widgets aren't enough. Maybe you've created
PyCharm: Support for uv, Poetry, and Hatch Workspaces (Beta)

Link: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2026/05/support-for-uv-poetry-and-hatch-workspaces-beta/

Workspaces are increasingly the go-to choice for companies and open-source teams aiming to manage shared code, enforce consistency, and simplify dependency management across multiple services. Working
Real Python: How to Use OpenCode for AI-Assisted Python Coding

Link: https://realpython.com/opencode-guide/

OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that runs in your terminal and lets you analyze and refactor a Python project through conversational commands. In this guide, you’ll install it on your syste
"Michiel's Blog": httpx2!

Link: https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/httpx2.html

It’s six weeks after we forked httpx and
named our package httpxyz. Yesterday, the Pydantic
people started their own fork, httpx2.
TL;DR: while we think httpxyz was definitely needed, we welcome httpx
Python Software Foundation: PSF Welcomes Hudson River Trading (HRT) as a Visionary Sponsor

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/05/psf-welcomes-hudson-river-trading-hrt.html

[May 13, 2026] – The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is excited to announce that Hudson River Trading (HRT), a global leader in quantitative trading, has made a commitment to support Python and the P
Python Engineering at Microsoft: PyCon US 2026

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/pycon-us-2026/

Come See Us at PyCon US 2026!
Microsoft and GitHub will be at PyCon US 2026, May 14–17 in Long Beach, CA. Stop by our booth, say hello, and tell us about your experience with our tools and services. W
Real Python: Quiz: Python Metaclasses

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python-metaclasses/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of
Python Metaclasses.
Metaclasses sit behind every class you write in Python, and they’re one of the language’s deeper object-oriented concepts. By workin
Real Python: Quiz: Cursor vs Windsurf: Which AI Code Editor Is Best for Python?

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/cursor-vs-windsurf-python/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of
Cursor vs Windsurf: Which AI Code Editor Is Best for Python?
By working through these questions, you’ll revisit how the two editors differ across code c
EuroPython: May Newsletter: Sessions, Speakers, Sprints

Link: https://blog.europython.eu/may-newsletter-sessions-speakers-sprints/

Hi all Pythonistas! 👋 Hope you’ve been enjoying these last few weeks, and hopefully planning your trip to Kraków in July! With two months left before the conference, the EuroPython organising team has
Kay Hayen: Nuitka Release 4.1

Link: https://nuitka.net/posts/nuitka-release-41.html

This is to inform you about the new stable release of Nuitka. It is the extremely compatible Python compiler,
“download now”.
This release adds many new features and corrections with a focus on
async
Bob Belderbos: A Race Condition Rust Wouldn't Have Let Me Write

Link: https://belderbos.dev/blog/race-condition-rust-wouldnt-let-me-write/

A two-agent Python service ran fine in tests. Two concurrent users hit it and one user's search results showed up in the other user's response. The pattern looked safe. The Rust port doesn't compile.
Bob Belderbos: Coding exercises that run in the browser with Pyodide

Link: https://belderbos.dev/blog/python-exercises-browser-pyodide/

I've built coding-exercise platforms before (Python, Rust). AWS API Gateway + Lambda, Docker, etc. It works great, but that's a lot of infrastructure to teach someone a four-line function.

For our ne
Bob Belderbos: Learn agentic AI in Python with 10 small exercises

Link: https://belderbos.dev/blog/learn-agentic-ai-python-10-step-journey/

Most "build an AI agent" tutorials hand you a framework and skip the part where you actually understand what it's doing under the hood. When the abstraction breaks, you can't debug it because you neve
Bob Belderbos: 10 Days of Rust for Python Developers: A Recap

Link: https://belderbos.dev/blog/10-days-rust-python-developers-recap/

I ran a 10-day beginner Rust challenge on LinkedIn, one small exercise per day, written for Python developers. The goal was to give developers enough exposure to decide whether Rust deserves a real pu