There’s an old compiler-building tutorial that has become part of the field’s lore: the Let’s Build a Compiler series by Jack Crenshaw (published between 1988 and 1995). I ran into it in 2003 and was very impressed, but it’s now 2025 and this tutorial is still being mentioned quite often in Hacker...

   In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the Python Inner Functions: What Are They Good For? tutorial. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how inner functions work with enclosing scopes, when to use nonlocal to update captured state, how closures retain data across calls, and how...

   712 - DECEMBER 9, 2025 View in Browser Exploring Quantum Computing & Python Frameworks What are the recent advances in the field of quantum computing and high-performance computing? And what Python tools can you use to develop programs that run on quantum computers? This week on the show, Real...

   We’re excited to invite you to this year’s General Assembly meeting We’ll gather on Wednesday, 17 December 2025 20:00 CET, held online via Zoom. EPS membership is required to participate and additional joining instructions will be shared closer to the date.You can find more...

   The Online Community Working Group has introduced a new GitHub repository designed to manage and track ideas, suggestions, and improvements across Django’s various online community platforms. Introducing the Online Community Working Group Repository Primarily inspired by the rollout of the New...

   Functional programming is a programming paradigm in which the primary method of computation is the evaluation of functions. But how does Python support functional programming? In this video course, you’ll learn: What the functional programming paradigm entails What it means to say that functions...

   We’re excited to announce that PyCharm 2025.3 is here This release continues our mission to make PyCharm the most powerful Python IDE for web, data, and AI ML development. It marks the migration of Community users to the unified PyCharm and brings full support for Jupyter notebooks in remote...

   lt;strong>Topics covered in this episode:< strong><br> <ul> <li><strong><a href https: discuss.python.org t pep-798-unpacking-in-comprehensions 99435?featured on pythonbytes >PEP 798: Unpacking in Comprehensions< a>< strong>< li>...

   Elon Musk is not happy with the EU fining his X platform and is currently on a tweet rampage complaining about it. Among other things, he wants the whole EU to be abolished. He sadly is hardly the first wealthy American to share their opinions on European politics lately. I’m not a fan of...

   The Python Steering Council election is on This year six candidates are running for the five seats. See PEP 8107 for links to their nomination statements and PEP 13 for more on Python language governance. I made a chart to show when the nominations arrived during the nomination period: six is fewer...

   A lot happened last month in the world of Python The core developers pushed ahead on Python 3.15, accepting PEP 810 to bring explicit lazy imports to the language. PyPI tightened account security, Django 6.0 landed with a slew of new features while celebrating twenty years of releases, and the...

   30 years It’s hard to believe, but it was in December 1995 (i.e., 30 years ago) that I went freelance, giving up a stable corporate paycheck. And somehow, I’ve managed to make it work: During that time, I’ve gotten married, bought a house, raised three children, gone on numerous vacations, and...

   Let’s be honest. There’s a huge gap between writing code that works and writing code that’s actually good. It’s the number one thing that separates a junior developer from a senior, and it’s something a surprising number of us never really learn. If you’re serious about your craft, you’ve probably...

   Things feel different in tech right now, don’t they? A few years back, landing a dev or data role felt like winning the lottery. You learned some syntax, built a portfolio, and you were set. But in 2025, that safety net feels thin. We all know why. Artificial Intelligence isn’t just a buzzword...

   Automate Microsoft 365 Like a Pro: Skip the OAuth Headaches 2025-12-08, by Dariusz Suchojad Are you tired of fighting with Microsoft 365 APIs and complex authentication flows? This practical tutorial cuts through the complexity, showing you how to build production-ready Python automations for...

   Last week urllib3 v2.6.0 was released which contained removals for several APIs that we’ve known were problematic since 2019 and have been deprecated since 2022. The deprecations were marked in the documentation, changelog, and what I incorrectly believed would be the most meaningful signal to...

   Remember the pure, unadulterated joy (and occasional rage) of games like Breakout and Arkanoid? Dodging, bouncing, and strategically smashing bricks for that satisfying thwack? Well, get ready for brkrs - a modern, full-featured brick-breaker that brings all that classic arcade action to a new...

   Tired of tutorial code that stops working the moment the lesson ends? Meet brkrs a fully playable, Arkanoid Breakout-style game written in Rust and built with the Bevy engine. But this isn’t just a game. It’s an open-source learning playground dedicated to spec-first development and AI-assisted...

   What are the recent advances in the field of quantum computing and high-performance computing? And what Python tools can you use to develop programs that run on quantum computers? This week on the show, Real Python author Negar Vahid discusses her tutorial, Quantum Computing Basics With Qiskit. [...

   I have just released version 0.9.11 of Shed Skin, a restricted-Python-to-C compiler. Most importantly, it adds support for Python 3.14. It also adds support for many 3.x features that were not yet implemented, in addition to basic support for the base64 module. It also optimizes a few more common...

   In our previous post, we introduced function calling and learned how to do it with OpenAI’s LLMs. In this post, we’ll call the same cactify name function from that post using Meta’s Llama 3.2 model, installed locally using Ollama. The techniques in this post should also work with other Ollama...

   This tutorial will teach you how to use Gemini CLI to bring Google’s AI-powered coding assistance directly into your terminal. After you authenticate with your Google account, this tool will be ready to help you analyze code, identify bugs, and suggest fixes all without leaving your familiar...

   The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 6.0. The release notes assembles a mosaic of modern tools and thoughtful design. A few highlights are: Template Partials: modularize templates using small, named fragments for cleaner, more maintainable code. (GSoC project by Farhan Ali...

   In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the How to Use Google’s Gemini CLI for AI Code Assistance tutorial. By working through these questions, you’ll revisit how to install and verify prerequisites like Node.js, explore authentication options, and understand the CLI’s permission and safety...