#python

#python

At the end of August, Python: The Documentary premiered on YouTube, where you can watch it for free. It's an 84-minute film tracing Python's journey from Amsterdam side project to the world's most popular programming language: Produced by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot) and directed by Ida Bechtle, the documentary explores Python's evolution and the community that shaped it. It features Guido van Rossum and key contributors like Mariatta and recent Real Python Podcast guest, Travis Oliphant. The documentary also highlights the important role of PyLadies and addresses controversial topics including the Python 2 to 3 transition.

Ready to level up your Python code optimization skills? In this quiz, you'll revisit key concepts about profiling, benchmarking, and diagnosing performance bottlenecks. You'll practice with tools like cProfile and timeit, and see how deterministic and statistical profilers differ.

This quiz helps you sharpen your understanding of Python's .__dict__ attribute.

Here's how [he demonstrated](https://adamj.eu/tech/2025/07/30/python-check-package-version-importlib-metadata-version/) I should be doing it instead. ```toml # pyproject.toml [project] name = "air" version = "0.25.0" # This is the source of truth for the version number ```

Subinterpreters provide a means to run separate Python interpreters within a single process, allowing for better isolation. However, the community currently lacks a deep understanding of how to effectively implement them.

The termncolor package and its malicious dependency colorinal highlight the increasing sophistication of attacks targeting software repositories, enabling attackers to achieve remote code execution and system persistence.

To fetch all tracks from a Spotify playlist using the Spotipy library, you need to loop through the paginated results until no more pages are left.

The outputs of a tf.function must be return values, and side effects may behave unexpectedly, executing only for the first call with a set of inputs.

Polars offers significant speed advantages, particularly in data projects when compared to pandas, making it an optimal choice for performance-centric applications.

The Python Environments extension continued to receive bug fixes and improvements as part of the controlled roll-out currently available to 20% of Stable users.

TOML (Tom's Obvious Minimal Language) is a configuration format adopted widely in Python development, especially useful in popular Python packages which use pyproject.toml.

Litestar stands out in the Python web ecosystem as a unique async-first, type-hint-driven framework, attracting positive attention due to its simplicity and ease of use.

Pandas is a Python library used for data analysis and manipulation on labeled datasets. The core mission of the Pandas development team is to be the fundamental high-level building block for practical, real-world data analysis in Python. It provides tools and methods for aligning, merging, transforming, and managing data from various persistent stores, positioning itself as the definitive tool for data analysis in Python.

Python 3.14's t-strings allow you to intercept and transform input values before assembling them into a final representation.

This quiz will allow participants to practice indefinite iteration using the Python while loop, covering basic and complex while loops along with interrupting loop execution.

Ruff is a formatter written in Rust that is extremely fast and has special love for the Python community, including a PyPI wrapper for easy installation.

The quiz allows participants to test their knowledge of Flask application development through 9 questions related to views, blueprints, and application factory patterns.

This quiz consists of seven questions that test knowledge on core concepts of web scraping using Python, focusing on Beautiful Soup and MechanicalSoup.

Astral's uv tool simplifies Python project setup by automating the creation of temporary environments and managing dependencies, allowing smooth execution of programs without formal installation.

Dunder methods, or double-underscore methods, serve as hooks for customizing Python behavior, allowing programmers to define or modify functionalities like equality and comparison.

In Python, every object is either truthy or falsy. When using the built-in bool(), truthy objects return True and falsy objects return False.

Wing Python IDE version 11.0.2 enhances source code analysis and fixes integration issues with the ruff external code checker, along with other minor improvements.

Auth is crucial for application security and user experience. Propel Auth simplifies the integration process, allowing developers to focus on their core value propositions.

Debugging involves identifying, analyzing, and resolving issues in Python code. Important techniques include reading tracebacks, using print() for value tracking, and writing tests to catch errors.