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PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #746: Free-Threaded NumPy, __all__, PyTorch, and More (2026-08-04)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/746

#746 – AUGUST 4, 2026 View in Browser » Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python A recap on the work done in NumPy and CPython to make multi-threaded NumPy workloads scale on the free-threaded buil
Marc-André Lemburg: Pymmich – an AI-first OSS project 🐍✨

Link: https://malemburg.com/pymmich-an-ai-first-oss-project/

A couple of months ago, I decided to switch to Immich, the photo management software, for storing and managing photos.I had used Nextcloud Memories before that, but found the Immich app more intuitive
Python GUIs: Handling Image Drag and Drop from Web Browsers in PyQt6 — Why toLocalFile() returns an empty string and how to handle remote image drops correctly

Link: https://www.pythonguis.com/faq/dragging-and-dropping-in-rich-text-example-app/


When dragging and dropping images from a web browser into a PyQt6 rich text editor, toLocalFile() sometimes returns a blank string. It works for some images (like Google image search results) but fai
Core Dispatch: Core Dispatch #9

Link: https://coredispatch.xyz/editions/9

Welcome back to Core Dispatch! This edition covers July 18 through August 5, 2026.
Python 3.15.0 release candidate 1 landed on August 4, followed by Python 3.14.7
and 3.13.15 on August 5. With the fir
Django Weblog: Django 6.1 released

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/aug/05/django-61-released/

The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 6.1.
The release notes
offer a harmonious mélange of new features and usability improvements. A few highlights are:


Model field fetch modes
Hynek Schlawack: Production-ready Python Docker Containers with uv

Link: https://hynek.me/articles/docker-uv/

Starting with 0.3.0, Astral’s uv brought many great features, including support for cross-platform lock files uv.lock. Together with subsequent fixes, it has become Python’s finest workflow tool for m
Django Weblog: Call for applicants for a Django Executive Director

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/aug/06/call-for-applicants-for-a-django-executive-directo/

The Django Software Foundation is announcing a call for an Executive Director. The Executive Director is the operational leader of the Django Software Foundation, a paid position reporting to the Boar
Ed Crewe: From Routing Checks to Trajectory Testing: Evaluating an Agentic Chatbot

Link: http://edcrewe.blogspot.com/2026/08/from-routing-checks-to-trajectory.html

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Which Agentic Chatbot?
I have been working on a Python based AI test framework for a chatbot interface for my com
LernerPython blog, from Reuven Lerner: Free real-world Pandas exercises, with solutions

Link: https://lernerpython.com/2026/08/09/free-real-world-pandas-exercises/

If you want to get better at Pandas, the hard part isn’t finding tutorials. It’s finding problems worth solving. Most exercises hand you a tidy little table of five rows and ask you to sum a column —
Ned Batchelder: Caller-specific coverage

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202608/callerspecific_coverage

I’ve had an idea rattling around to get more detail from coverage
measurement. Can we measure the coverage in a function separately for each
caller of the function?Here’s why I want it: in Acidica, m
Django Weblog: Django is moving to an annual release cycle

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/aug/10/annual-release-cycle/

Django's Steering Council has accepted the Django Enhancement Proposal DEP
20 to move Django to an annual release cycle. From January 2028, Django
will make one feature release a year, giving every fe
Talk Python to Me: #558: Hyper-Personal Software with Python

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/558/hyper-personal-software-with-python

Every company has one. The little internal tool that Jane built back in 2021, and then Jane left. Nobody understands it, nobody will touch it. There are two unwritten rules around it: don't change it,
James Bennett: Breaking up (lines) is hard to do

Link: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/aug/10/newlines/

Here’s a seemingly simple question: given a chunk of multi-line text, how do you split it and return an array whose members are the constituent lines of the text?
Hopefully, your first instinct is to
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #747: Modern OOP, bisect, Django Async, and More (2026-08-11)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/747

#747 – AUGUST 11, 2026 View in Browser » New Book: Modern Object-Oriented Python Real Python’s new book on classes, Python’s data model, and object-oriented design is out in Early Access. Nine c
TestDriven.io: Storing Django Static and Media Files on Cloudflare R2

Link: https://testdriven.io/blog/django-cloudflare-r2/

This tutorial shows how to configure Django to load and serve up static and media files, public and private, via Cloudflare R2.
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