Interesting post from @stan.ulbrych.org with an annotated chart showing the growth of CPython's source code over the decades:
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#Python #CPython #history
Want to improve your testing process? You should check out "Effective BDD" by Nagy and @sebrose.bsky.social from @manning.com. It is about 2/3rds written and already has loads of great stuff in it. I've used BDD with my clients and still found useful tips and pointers throughout.
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On this week's episode, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about unittest.mock, match-case, time in programming and more.
With content from: @djangoproject.com @wagtail.org @thibaudcolas.bsky.social @pypi.org
@cnx-software.com @trey.io @shanrauf.bsky.social and others not on the 🦋
There is a Free Python conference next week. Check it out!
My friend @t-redactyl.bsky.social is one of the hosts.
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📰🐍 Get the best Python links of the week: PyCoder’s Weekly Issue #723: Chained Assignment, Great Tables, Docstrings, and More (Feb. 24, 2026) pycoders.com/issues/723
Looking to learn the basics of FastAPI? My new course is up, learn how to quickly create APIs, use Pydantic for your models, and HTTP methods to perform CRUD ops.
Yep same. And before you ask "star-star-keyword args"
Which is interesting because sometimes I use mainframe terminology and refer to "star" as "splat", but not in Python.
🎧🐍 Episode #285 of the Real Python Podcast is live: Exploring MCP Apps & Adding Interactive UIs to Clients realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...
📰🐍 Get the best Python links of the week: PyCoder’s Weekly Issue #722: Itertools, Circular Imports, Mock, and More (Feb. 17, 2026) pycoders.com/issues/722
🐍🎧 Running Local LLMs With Ollama and Connecting With Python
How do you integrate your Python projects with a local model? @trudeau.dev is back this week with another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...
On this week's episode, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about callables, GeoPandas, subprocess polling, and more.
🐍📩 Pycoders Weekly (Issue 721) — Classification With zstd, Callables, Gemini, and More
pycoders.com/issues/721
Woo hoo! 🎉
My book, #Python Workout (2nd edition), is now the #20 best-selling book in programming languages at Amazon.
Thanks so much to everyone who has bought it, and also to everyone leaving such kind reviews.
Looks like my new course is up, come learn how to improve your testing with Python's unittest.mock module.
🎧🐍 Episode #283 of the Real Python Podcast is live: Improving Your GitHub Developer Experience realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...
One place I was at years ago, the person calling in was claiming to be one of the employees and just needed someone's extension. Fortunately, that employee was standing at the receptionist's desk at the time. We quickly implemented a "don't give out digits policy".
📰🐍 Get the best Python links of the week: PyCoder’s Weekly Issue #720: Subprocess, Memray, Callables, and More (Feb. 3, 2026) pycoders.com/issues/720
🐍🎧 Testing Python Code for Scalability & What's New in pandas 3.0
What are the new features in pandas 3.0? @trudeau.dev is back on the show this week with another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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On this week's episode, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about pandas 3.0, unit testing performance, and more.
With content from: @djangoproject.com @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy @adamj.eu @opensource.google and others not on the 🦋
🐍📩 Pycoders Weekly (Issue 719) — Django Tasks, Dictionaries, Ollama, and More
pycoders.com/issues/719
You were a busy man over the holidays!
On this week's episode, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk performance topics, spec-driven dev, and more.
With content from: @misrasaurabh1.bsky.social @mkennedy.codes @di.github.io @andrewnez.bsky.social @francoisz.bsky.social @robbowley.net @free.law and others not on the 🦋
🎧🐍 Episode #279 of the Real Python Podcast is live: Coding Python With Confidence: Beginners Live Course Participants realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...
That's great! Assembly makes you a better programmer, even if you never go back to it. Understanding what the machine is doing makes a big difference in even high level languages.
📰🐍 Get the best Python links of the week: PyCoder’s Weekly Issue #716: Performance Numbers, async Web Apps, uv Speed, and More (Jan. 6, 2026) pycoders.com/issues/716
Happy New Year! On this week's episode, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about the most clicked PyCoders articles of 2025: what was popular as well as some hidden gems we missed in the podcast last year.
🎧🐍 Episode #277 of the Real Python Podcast is live: Moving Towards Spec-Driven Development
Firefox +1 for "tabclip" extension, use it all the time
📰🐍 Get the best Python links of the week: PyCoder’s Weekly Issue #713: Deprecations, Compression, Functional Programming, and More (Dec. 16, 2025) pycoders.com/issues/713
Yeah, I use the library it is based on all the time
