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Master the Python range() function and learn how it works under the hood. You most commonly use ranges in loops. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to iterate over ranges but also identify when there are better alternatives.

Time to make it public and official. The entire reposurgeon suite (not just repocutter and repomapper, which have already been ported) is changing implementation languages from Python to Go. Reposu…

CLIs are a fantastic way to build products. Unlike web applications, they take a small fraction of the time to build and are much more…

Unicode has solved a lot of problems. Anyone that remembers the mess of ISO-8859-* vs. CP437 (and of course it’s even worse for non-Western languages) can attest to that. And of course, these…

Creating a Python Website from the Bottom Up

How do I, someone who just dabbles in Python and uses it for daily data handling tasks, become an expert in Python? Anytime you learn a new skill, such as learning Python, you might feel anxiety about wether or not you are “ready”. You’re always looking around…

It occurred to me that Django's ORM could do with a bit of a revamp to make use of recent developments in the Python language. The main area where I think Django's models are missing out is the lack of type hinting (hardly surprising since Django pre-dates…

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A Python application for tracking, reporting on timing and complexity in Python code - tonybaloney/wily

The Transcrypt Python to JavaScript compiler makes it possible to program lean and fast browser applications in Python. Transcrypt applications can use any JavaScript library and can also run on top of Node.js or be used in combination with Django.

WebRTC and ORTC implementation for Python using asyncio - jlaine/aiortc

A VS Code snippet extension for both the Jinja2 and Django template engines. - EndlessTrax/python-template-snippets