Python Morsels: When to use NotImplemented

Link: https://www.pythonmorsels.com/when-to-use-notimplemented/

When should you return NotImplemented from a dunder method? Why not return False or raise an exception instead?



Table of contents

Dunder methods return NotImplemented
NotImplemented means "I don't

PyCharm: Security Incident Affecting JetBrains Cadence

Link: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2026/08/cadence-security-incident-august-2026/

We are investigating a security incident affecting JetBrains Cadence. Cadence is a JetBrains-hosted service that integrates with PyCharm through an optional plugin, and lets you run your projects on c

PyCharm: The State of Django 2026: Boring is so back

Link: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2026/08/the-state-of-django-2026-boring-is-so-back/

Welcome to the highlights from the fifth annual Django Developers Survey, a collaboration between the Django Software Foundation and PyCharm. This year’s report draws on responses from nearly 3,500 Dj

Django Weblog: Django Developers Survey 2026 results

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/aug/28/django-developers-survey-2026-results/

The results from the 2026 Django Developers Survey are now available. This is the fifth annual report conducted from May to July 2026 by the Django Software Foundation in collaboration with JetBrains

Graham Dumpleton: Introducing wrapture

Link: https://grahamdumpleton.me/posts/2026/08/introducing-wrapture/

For the best part of two decades, through wrapt, I have been dealing with the mechanics of monkey patching in Python. Anyone who has followed wrapt will know I am quite pedantic about correctness, to

Paolo Melchiorre: My DjangoCon US 2026

Link: https://www.paulox.net/2026/08/31/my-djangocon-us-2026/

My DjangoCon US 2026 experience in Chicago, captured through Mastodon posts about talks, my UUID talk, Django community activities, people, and moments along the way.

Python Software Foundation: Kojo Idrissa: 2026 PSF Board Election Candidate Interview

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/08/kojo-idrissa-2026-psf-board-election.html

Who are you? I'm a software engineer at REVSYS. Before that I was an accountant. I was also a university instructor in the US and China.  I taught English, Western Culture, Problem-Solving, Accounting

PyCharm: Fine-Tuning SOTA Object Detection Models on Real-World Datasets

Link: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2026/08/fine-tuning-sota-object-detection-models-on-real-world-datasets/

In our previous blog post in this series, we discussed state-of-the-art models for object detection: the architectures, the theory, and what makes YOLO12, YOLO26, and RF-DETR tick. If you want the the

Graham Dumpleton: Unit testing with wrapture

Link: https://grahamdumpleton.me/posts/2026/09/unit-testing-with-wrapture/

In introducing wrapture I said the one idea everything sits on is to wrap rather than replace. That is easy to say and harder to see the point of, so this post takes a small piece of code and writes t

Seth Michael Larson: Buying GameCube games from other regions

Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/buying-gamecube-games-from-another-region?utm_campaign=rss

This blog post was inspired by discovering that Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire,
a legendarily rare and expensive GameCube game in the United States (>$2,500 USD),
could be purchased complete-in-box (CIB

Python Insider: Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here!

Link: https://blog.python.org/2026/09/python-3150-rc2/

Last chance to test before the big day!

Python Software Foundation: Inaugural Python Packaging Council Election: Voting is now open!

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/09/inaugural-python-packaging-council.html

It’s time to cast your vote! Voting for the inaugural 2026 Python Packaging Council (PPC) Election is open now through September 15 at 2:00 pm UTC.Find Your BallotIf you are a voting member of the PSF

Python Software Foundation: The 2026 PSF Board Election is Open!

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-2026-psf-board-election-is-open.html

It’s time to cast your vote! Voting for the 2026 PSF Board Election is open starting today Tuesday, September 1st, 2:00 pm UTC, through Tuesday, September 15th, 2:00 pm UTC. How to VoteIf you are a vo

Hugo van Kemenade: Help test Python 3.15!

Link: https://hugovk.dev/blog/2026/help-test-python-315/

Calling all Python library maintainers! 🐍
The second and final Python 3.15 release candidate is out! 🎉
It’s your last chance to join the cool testers’ club and say that YOU helped test 3.15
before the

Python Bytes: #494 Python Wrapture

Link: https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/494/python-wrapture

Topics covered in this episode:

OpenAI's Python SDK has migrated to HTTPX2
TMOG - Native Task Manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux
wrapture - one wrapper for mocking, tracing, and observability
link

James Bennett: Boring Python: dependency management

Link: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2022/may/13/boring-python-dependencies/

This is the first in hopefully a series of posts I intend to write about how to build/manage/deploy/etc. Python applications in as boring a way as possible.
So before I go any further, I want to be ab

Django Weblog: Djangonaut Space - Session 7 Accepting Applications

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/sep/01/djangonaut-space-session-7-accepting-applications/

We are thrilled to announce that Djangonaut Space, a mentorship program for contributing to Django, is open for applicants for our next cohort! 🚀
Session 7 launches October 12th, 2026. We are currentl

PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #750: State of Django, PSF Elections, Python 3.15, and More (2026-09-01)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/750

#750 – SEPTEMBER 1, 2026 View in Browser » The State of Django 2026: Boring Is So Back A summary of this year’s State of Django report which draws on responses from nearly 3,500 developers acros

Graham Dumpleton: Recording calls with wrapture

Link: https://grahamdumpleton.me/posts/2026/09/recording-calls-with-wrapture/

In unit testing with wrapture the tests leaned on a timeline and a tape to assert on what happened, and I skipped over what those actually are. This post is about the recording side of wrapture: what

Mark Dufour: Shed Skin restricted-Python-to-C++ compiler v0.9.13 released

Link: http://shed-skin.blogspot.com/2026/09/shed-skin-restricted-python-to-c.html

I have just released version 0.9.13 of Shed Skin, a restricted-python to C++ transpiler. Shed Skin allows one to effectively convert (or transpile) pure Python code to highly optimized machine code. T