| | | | How to Join Strings in Python
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Python’s built-in .join() method to combine string elements from an iterable into a single string with a specified separator. You’ll also learn about common pitfalls, and how CPython makes .join() work efficiently.
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Creating the MongoDB Database Backend for Django
Django supports a number of relational databases, but to go NoSQL you need to use third party tools. This is about to change as a backend for MongoDB is in development. This talks about the history of Mongo and Django and how the new code is structured.
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Postgres, Now with Built-in Warehousing
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PyPI Now Supports iOS and Android Wheels
PyPI now supports iOS and Android wheels, making it easier for Python developers to distribute mobile packages.
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Python Release 3.14.0a5
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PyPy v7.3.18 Released
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PEP 765: Disallow Return/Break/Continue That Exit a Finally Block (Accepted)
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Quiz: How to Join Strings in Python
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Quiz: Python for Loops: The Pythonic Way
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Charlie Marsh: Accelerating Python Tooling With Ruff and uv
Are you looking for fast tools to lint your code and manage your projects? How is the Rust programming language being used to speed up Python tools? This week on the show, we speak with Charlie Marsh about his company, Astral, and their tools, uv and Ruff.
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Managing Django’s Queue
Carlton is one of the core developers of Django. This post talks about staying on top of the incoming pull-requests, bug fixes, and everything else in the development queue.
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Unify Distributed Data from Edge-to-Cloud
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Shipping Software on Time and on Budget
The detailed post talks about all the things you can do to try to get better at delivering on time and on budget. The article includes a lot of good references as well.
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Great Tables
Talk Python To Me interviews Rich Iannone and Michael Chow from Posit. They discuss the transformative power of data tables with the Great Tables library.
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pytest-mock: Mocking in pytest
pytest-mock is currently the #3 pytest plugin. It is a wrapper around unittest.mock. This covers what mocking is, and how to do it well in pytest.
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Tail-Call Interpreter Added to CPython
New code for a tail-call interpreter has been added to the Python 3.14 alpha. It is an opt-in feature for now, but promises performance improvements.
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Python Free-Threading Guide
This is a centralized collection of documentation and trackers around compatibility with free-threaded CPython for the Python open source ecosystem.
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re.Match.groupdict
This quick TIL post shows how you can use the .groupdict() method from a regex match to get a dictionary with all named groups.
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The 10-Step Checklist for Continuous Delivery
Learn how to implement Continuous Delivery with this 10-step guide featuring actionable insights, examples, and best practices.
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Exploring ICEYE’s Satellite Imagery
This article does a deep dive data-analysis on satellite imagery of an airport. It uses pandas, geopandas, PyTorch, and more.
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Terminal Colours Are Tricky
Choosing just the right palette for your terminal can be tricky. This article talks about the why and how.
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