#651 – OCTOBER 15, 2024
Exploring the New Features of Python 3.13
Python 3.13 is here! Our regular guests, Geir Arne Hjelle and Christopher Trudeau, return to discuss the new version. This year, Geir Arne coordinated a series of preview articles with members of the Real Python team and a showcase tutorial, “Python 3.13: Cool New Features for You to Try.” Christopher’s video course “What’s New in Python 3.13” covers the topics from the article and shows the new features in action.
REAL PYTHON podcast
HPy: A Better C API for Python
The HPy project is a wrapper to the Python C-API meant to make it easier to integrate with Python code. It allows for universal binaries and has a debug mode. Associated HN Discussion
HPYPROJECT.ORG
Posit Connect: Share the Work You Make With Streamlit, FastAPI, & Other FOSS Frameworks
People use Posit Connect to publish, host, & manage interactive apps, dashboards, Python models, APIs, & much more. It provides a centralized, self-service place to share the products of data science teams. Increase the impact of your work by making it easier for others to integrate with your work →
POSIT sponsor
PyCon Africa 2024: A Summary
This was Vuyisile’s first visit to PyCon Africa and so he posted a summary of the event.
VUYISILE NDLOVU
PEP 760: No More Bare Excepts (Withdrawn)
PYTHON.ORG
PEP 735: Dependency Groups in pyproject.toml (Accepted)
PYTHON.ORG
Django Bugfix Release Issued: 5.1.2
DJANGO SOFTWARE FOUNDATION
Python Developers Survey 2024
PSF
Quiz: When to Use a List Comprehension in Python
REAL PYTHON
Quiz: Modern Python String Formatting Tools
REAL PYTHON
Articles & Tutorials
__init__.py Files Are Optional. You Should Still Use Them
If you’ve ever googled the question “Why do Python packages have empty __init__.py files?”, you could get the idea that Python packages wouldn’t work without them. This is a common misconception—they’ve been optional since Python 3.3! Why then, do most Python projects still have them?
BOVENBERG.NET • Shared by Arie Bovenberg
Build a Contact Book App With Python, Textual, and SQLite
In this tutorial, you’ll be guided step by step through the process of building a basic contact book application. You’ll use Python and Textual to build the application’s text-based user interface (TUI), and then use SQLite to manage the database.
REAL PYTHON
Save 100+ Engineering Hours With the Highest Performing GPU Clusters on the Market
FluidStack provides GPU clusters for LLM training & inference for the top AI labs including Poolside and CharacterAI. Clusters are built on the latest Nvidia GPUs (A100s, H100s, H200s, GB200s) and are deployed on fully managed Kubernetes/Slurm with 24/7 support, 15 min response time and 99% uptime →
FLUIDSTACK sponsor
PEP 777: How to Re-Invent the Wheel
“The current wheel 1.0 specification was written over a decade ago, and has been extremely robust to changes in the Python packaging ecosystem… this PEP prescribes compatibility requirements on future wheel revisions.”
PYTHON.ORG
PEP 758: Allow except and except* Expressions Without Parentheses
“This PEP proposes to allow unparenthesized except and except* blocks in Python’s exception handling syntax. Currently, when catching multiple exceptions, parentheses are required around the exception types.”
PYTHON.ORG
PEP 761: Deprecating PGP Signatures for CPython Artifacts
Since Python 3.11.0, CPython has provided two verifiable digital signatures for all CPython artifacts: PGP and Sigstore. This PEP proposes moving to Sigstore as the only way of signing artifacts.
PYTHON.ORG
In the Making of Python Fitter and Faster
This post details how Python’s recent performance improvements work under the hood. It covers changes to the interpreter, better memory management, and the newly experimental JIT compiler.
SUMER CIP
The Ultimate Guide to Error Handling in Python
This detailed post covers the variety of ways to deal with errors in your code, why you might choose between the approaches, and what all this theory actually means in the real world.
MIGUEL GRINBERG
TypedDicts Are Better Than You Think
TypedDict was introduced in PEP-589 which landed in Python 3.8. The primary use case was to create type annotations for dictionaries. This post explains why you should use them.
CHANGS.CO.UK
Narrow State of a Django Model Using Python TypeGuard
Bruno came across a problem with type checking for a Django project which led him to use TypeGuard for the first time. This post explains why.
BRUNO ALLA
If We Had $1,000,000…
Jacob ponders what the Django Software Foundation would look like if they had 4x their current budget.
JACOB KAPLAN-MOSS
Projects & Code
srgn: Grep-Like Tool That Understands Code
GITHUB.COM/ALEXPOVEL
streamable: Stream-Like Manipulation of Iterables
GITHUB.COM/EBONNAL
httpdbg: Debug HTTP(S) Requests in a Python Program
GITHUB.COM/CLE-B
Secure.py: HTTP Security Headers Made Easy
GITHUB.COM/TYPEERROR • Shared by Caleb Kinney
django-admin-tui: Django Admin in the Terminal!
GITHUB.COM/VALBERG
Events
Weekly Real Python Office Hours Q&A (Virtual)
October 16, 2024
REALPYTHON.COM
Python Brasil 2024
October 16 to October 21, 2024
PYTHONBRASIL.ORG.BR
PyCon Panamá 2024
October 16 to October 19, 2024
PYCON.PA
Swiss Python Summit 2024
October 17 to October 19, 2024
PYTHON-SUMMIT.CH
PyData Bristol Meetup
October 17, 2024
MEETUP.COM
PyLadies Dublin
October 17, 2024
PYLADIES.COM
PyCon APAC 2024
October 25 to October 27, 2024
PYCON.ID
PyCon Korea 2024
October 25 to October 28, 2024
PYCON.KR
PythonHo Conference 2024
October 26 to October 28, 2024
PYTHONHO.COM
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