⏰ Only 3 days left to submit your talk for #PyCascades 2026!

We’re heading to Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦, and we want to hear your story — from first-time speakers to seasoned Pythonistas. 🐍✨

🗓️ Deadline: Oct 27, 2025 (AoE)
👉 https://www.pycascades.com/news/cfp-review/

#Python #CFP #Community #PSF

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Inspired by a talk I had with @BajoranEngineer at #PyTorchCon, I've jotted down some thoughts about #Python as a scripting engine for apps.

https://phildini.dev/python-in-every-app

Shares appreciated! Commentary welcome, but if you're a jerk I'll block you 😇

@freakboy3742 @glyph @brettcannon this is why I was asking about built python ✨

Also included: a thought on how @conda monetizes this 😅

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Hey #Python is there a PEP or open proposal for tree-shaking as part of packaging, to produce a streamlined, shippable interpreter?

cc @freakboy3742 and @brettcannon who are likely to have thoughts here. ✨

Let's all give a shout out (and a follow) to the new @ThePSF Fellows!

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/announcing-python-software-foundation.html

Thank you for all you do for us! 🥂

🎉 Abhijeet Mote

🎉 Abigail Afi Gbadago

🎉 Becky Smith @rebkwok

🎉 Christopher Bailey @digiglean

🎉 Dawn Wages @BajoranEngineer

🎉 Leah Wasser @leahawasser

🎉 Maaya Ishida

🎉 Mason Egger @masonegger

🎉 Miguel Grinberg @miguelgrinberg

🎉 William Vincent @wsvincent

https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115418574313245306

#Python #PSF #PSFFellows

I'm not sure I can see the ground from the top of this teetering yak stack I am perched atop right now but does anyone happen to know why a fcntl struct on macOS would be laid out with no alignment, at least as per the distinction between the #python struct module's "=" vs. "@" layout

Real World Python https://leanpub.com/set/leanpub/realworldpython by Lukas Rieger and Christian Mayer is the featured Track of online courses on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com

Kickstart your programming skills now and learn to solve real world problems with Python!

#python #programming #onlinecourses

Please congratulate our newest PSF Fellow Members for Q3, 2025! Their continued contributions to the Python ecosystem are so very important to our community. #python
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/announcing-python-software-foundation.html

Just launched Lazy Cats, a visual exploration of cat behaviour.

Meet Lily + 27 other cats and find out what they do all day (spoiler: they mostly chill) 🐱🐾 Does your cat fit their profile?
🔗 https://lazy-cats.netlify.app/

Very proud to share my first interactive #dataviz project built with #Svelte + #D3! 📊 It's been quite a learning curve coming from #python but found super helpful tutorials by Matthias Stahl and Connor Rothschild. Links in this repo https://github.com/Lisa-Ho/d3-playground.

#creativecoding #cats

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screenshot recording of the project page showing the header – Lazy Cats – and scrolling down the page. The page includes a range of charts (bar chart, dot plot, sankey, beeswarm) that the user can interact with to get more details in popups or show data for winter or summer seasons

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A beeswarm chart illustrating the relationship between cats’ activity levels, seasonal laziness, weight, categorized by indoor versus indoor/outdoor lifestyle. The xaxis shows the percentage of time spent lying or sitting (ranging from ~60% to 85%), while the yaxis represents whether cats are more lazy in winter or summer. Cat icons in sitting or lying positions indicate the specific cat’s most favourite pose. Green icons represent indoor cats; blue icons represent indoor/outdoor cats. The number of stripes in a cat’s tail indicate the weight (Ideal, Overweight, Heavy, or Obese). The chart suggests that indoor cats tend to be slightly less active.

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Sankey diagram showing the top three winter activities of cats ranked by time spent. The diagram has three columns labeled “Most popular,” “Second,” and “Third.” Each column lists activities such as sitting, lying, standing, and eating, with colored flows connecting them to show how rankings shift. For example, “Sitting” is the most popular activity for 14 cats; 8 others rank it second, and 5 rank it third. “Lying” is also most popular for 14 cats, the other 14 cats rank it second. “Standing” appears most often as a third-ranked activity. The chart highlights how feline preferences vary in winter, with sitting and lying dominating the top ranks and standing emerging as a frequent third choice

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Dot plot titled “Average time cats spend by activity,” comparing one cat named Lily to a group of other cats. The yaxis lists activities: Sitting, Lying, Standing, Grooming, Eating, Active, Scratching, and Littering. The xaxis shows percentage of time spent, from 0% to 60%. Each activity has three markers: light blue circles for individual other cats, a black triangle for the median value, and a blue-outlined circle for Lily. For example, Lily spends more time sitting than most cats, but less time grooming. The chart highlights how Lily’s behavior aligns or diverges from typical feline patterns

📢 The Call for Speakers for #PyCascades 2026 is still open! 🐍✨

Have a story to share, a lesson learned, or an idea worth spreading?
Whether it’s your first talk or your tenth, we’d love to hear from you.

This year, PyCascades returns to beautiful Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 — and we’re looking for talks that celebrate creativity, curiosity, and the power of #Python.

🗓️ Submit your proposal by October 27, 2025 (AoE)
💡 Need tips on crafting a great proposal? Check out
👉 https://www.pycascades.com/news/cfp-review/

From the Leanpub Blog:

Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for Practical Pydantic: The Missing Guide to Data Validation in Python by Nuno Bispo!

https://leanpub.com/blog/leanpub-book-launch-practical-pydantic-the-missing-guide-to-data-validation-in-python-by-nuno-bispo

#books #ebooks #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #booklaunch #FastAPI #python #apis #programming

Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Practical Pydantic: The Missing Guide to Data Validation in Python by Nuno Bispo

Watch here: https://youtu.be/Ry-MckK7I-I

#books #ebooks #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #booklaunch #FastAPI #python #apis #programming

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I am simultaneously excited for the implementation techniques that #python free threading is going to open up for framework authors and deeply concerned about the way I see discussions going around it, as it seems application authors will be speedrunning the “you can fit so many untestable data races in here” to “you can fit so many intractable mutex deadlocks in here” pipeline that java previewed for us all in the early aughts

The Python Craftsman https://leanpub.com/b/python-craftsman by Robert Smallshire, Austin Bingham, and Sixty North is the featured bundle of ebooks 📚 on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #Python

Find it on Leanpub!

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Now that #Python 3.14 is out and Python 3.9 is finally EOL, I'm really looking forward to using pattern matching, string enums, and keyword-only dataclasses in more codebases.

From the Leanpub Blog:

Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for Practical Pydantic: The Missing Guide to Data Validation in Python by Nuno Bispo!

https://leanpub.com/blog/leanpub-book-launch-practical-pydantic-the-missing-guide-to-data-validation-in-python-by-nuno-bispo

#books #ebooks #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #booklaunch #FastAPI #python #apis #programming

Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Practical Pydantic: The Missing Guide to Data Validation in Python by Nuno Bispo

Watch here: https://youtu.be/Ry-MckK7I-I

#books #ebooks #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #booklaunch #FastAPI #python #apis #programming

Real World Python http://leanpub.com/set/leanpub/realworldpython by Lukas Rieger and Christian Mayer is the featured Track of online courses on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com

#courses #python #pythonprogramming

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Introduction to GIS Programming: A Practical Python Guide to Open Source Geospatial Tools https://leanpub.com/gispro by Qiusheng Wu is the featured book on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #Python

Find it on Leanpub!

The Python docstring alignment chart.

#Python

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Lawful good: Every function requires a docstring describing inputs and outputs Neutral good: Public functions require a docstring. Where helpful, inputs and outputs are documented Chaotic good: Public functions require docstrings. Lawful Neutral: The linter fails if the docstring does not match the template True neutral: I document whatever I won't remember Chaotic neutral: The linter checks for a string at the top of a function Lawful evil: "The Foo Function" Neutral evil: "Docstring" Chaotic evil: def Foo: eval(BODY) Foo.__doc__ = BODY

🎉 I hadn't kept up with what Django's Steering Council had been up to outside of random board updates, and I'm happy to share how impressed I am with how transparent they are.

They are meeting several times a month and sharing their minutes as they go. https://github.com/django/steering-council

They are even sharing on the Django Forum to bring more visibility to what they are doing https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2025/38306

These are very welcoming changes. 👏👏

#Django #Python

Just released: Python 3.14.0 release candidate 2! 🚀🐍

🪄 This was planned for 2025-08-26, but we fixed a bug that required bumping the magic number stored in bytecode (.pyc) files

🪄 This means .pyc files created for rc1 will be recompiled for rc2

🪄 The ABI isn’t changing

🪄 Wheels built for rc1 should be fine for rc2, rc3 and 3.14.x

🤖 Did I mention Android binaries?

🏆 Bonus: We also released an early Python 3.13.7!

https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-14-0rc2-and-3-13-7-are-go/102403
#Python #CPython #Python314 #Python313 #release

Just released: UltraJSON 5.11.0! 🚀

⌨️ Inline type stubs
🐍 Support for Python 3.14 & PyPy3.11
🛞 Windows ARM64 wheels (thanks @tonybaloney!)
💧Drop EOL Python 3.8 & PyPy3.8-PyPy3.10
➕ And more!

https://github.com/ultrajson/ultrajson/releases/tag/5.11.0
#Python #release #ujson #UltraJSON

Just released: Cherry Picker 2.6.0! 🚀

🌸 Fix bug when local branch does not exist (thanks, @webknjaz!)
🌸 Use PEP 639 licence expression and remove deprecated Trove classifier

https://github.com/python/cherry-picker/releases/tag/cherry-picker-v2.6.0

#Python #release #CherryPicker

Just released: OSMViz 4.5.0! 🚀

An OpenStreetMap visualization toolkit for Python

🥧 Support for Python 3.14
🪪 Replace deprecated classifier with licence expression (PEP 639)
🔍 Remove GitHub attestation, PyPI attestation is enough

https://pypi.org/project/osmviz/

#Python #release #OpenStreetMap #OSMViz #PEP639

Just released: humanize 4.13.0! 🚀

🤖 Optimise `naturalsize` algorithm by using `math.log`

🤖 Fix `precisedelta` rounding

https://github.com/python-humanize/humanize/releases/tag/4.13.0
#Python #humanize #release

Just released: Python Docs Sphinx Theme 2025.9! 🚀

This enables translations of the theme and adds translations for:

Brazilian Portuguese
Greek
Japanese
Polish
Simplified Chinese
Spanish
Swedish
Traditional Chinese
Turkish

Thanks to all our translators!

https://github.com/python/python-docs-theme/releases/tag/2025.9
#Python #docs #Sphinx #PythonDocsTheme #PythonDocsSphinxTheme

Just released: Python Docs Sphinx Theme 2025.9.2! 🚀

Add German, Korean and Indonesian translations
Fix html page translation
Fix Copy button copying line numbers
Fix search button cutting off long translations

https://github.com/python/python-docs-theme/releases/tag/2025.9.2
#Python #docs #Sphinx #PythonDocsTheme #PythonDocsSphinxTheme

Just released: Python 3.14.0 release candidate 3! 🚀🐍

🪄 Finally, the final release candidate

🪄 We fixed *another* bug that required the ".pyc magic number" to be increased

🪄 The ABI isn't changing, and wheels built for rc1 and rc2 should still work

👤 This was the first release @savannah shadowed!

🏆 Please test and report bugs!

https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-14-0rc3-is-go/103815?u=hugovk

#Python #CPython #Python314 #release

Just released! 🚀

🎶 pylast 6.0.0

🎤 A Python interface to Last.fm and Libre.fm

📯 Restore proxy support (potential breaking change: proxies are now always stored as a dict, before it was a str or dict)

🪇 Drop support for almost-EOL Python 3.9

https://github.com/pylast/pylast/releases/tag/6.0.0

#Python #pylast #LastFM #LibreFM #release #Python39

Just released! 🚀

em-keyboard 5.3.0

🎲 Pick a random emoji from a search. For example:

❯ em --search music --random
Copied! 👩‍🎤 woman_singer

🧛‍♂️ Drop support for Python 3.9

https://github.com/hugovk/em-keyboard/releases/tag/v5.3.0

#Python #EmKeyboard #em #CLI #release #emoji

Just released! 🚀

flake8-implicit-str-concat 0.6.0

A Flake8 plugin to identify those unjoined strings that a first Black run leaves behind:
"111111111111111111111" "222222222222222222222"

I hear there's another big release tomorrow? This release adds support for Python 3.14 and for once code changes were needed due to AST deprecation removals.

Also drop support for almost-very-nearly-EOL Python 3.9.

https://github.com/flake8-implicit-str-concat/flake8-implicit-str-concat/releases/tag/0.6.0
#Python #flake8 #release #Python314 #Python39

Forget* about Python 3.14, all the cool kids are trying out Python 3.15.0 alpha 1 (but not on production)! 🚀

🔬 PEP 799: A dedicated profiling package for Python profiling tools
💬 PEP 686: Python now uses UTF-8 as the default encoding
🌊 PEP 782: A new PyBytesWriter C API to create a Python bytes object
⚠️ Better error messages

https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-15-alpha-1/104358?u=hugovk

* Please don't forget about 3.14...

#Python #Python315 #release #PEP799 #PEP686 #PEP782

Just released! 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

Pillow 12.0.0
https://fosstodon.org/@pillow/115379893139846791

norwegianblue 0.23.0
https://github.com/hugovk/norwegianblue/releases/tag/0.23.0

pypinfo 23.0.0
https://github.com/ofek/pypinfo/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst#2300

Humanize 4.14.0
https://github.com/python-humanize/humanize/releases/tag/4.14.0

Tablib 3.9.0
https://github.com/jazzband/tablib/releases/tag/v3.9.0

#Python #release #Pillow #pypinfo #Humanize #norwegianblue #Tablib

15 Cheat Sheet Collection in Python + Git + NumPy + ML + Mindset by Christian Mayer is free with a Leanpub Reader membership! Or you can buy it for $7.99! http://leanpub.com/python-cheat-sheet #DataScience #ComputerProgramming #Ai #FunctionalProgramming #MachineLearning #Python

And here I thought I was going to get work done today lol. Fuck #python and the cultural "fuck you" it gives to any semblance of stability.

Let me just figure out which funky set of symlinks and different versions of different modules I have to bodge together to get this one thing working, and will it break other stuff I need?

You're goddamn fucking right it will. Fuck Python.

Congrats to the newest PSF’s Community Service Award recipients!

@glasnt, @sarahkuchinsky, and @mathsppblog have each made lasting contributions to the #Python community 🐍🗺️ From conferences to tutorials to education worldwide, their service to the Python community deserves recognition and celebration!
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/announcing-psf-community-service-award.html

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