| | | | How a Python Type Checker Decides a Variable Is Unused
A variable is unused only if no read resolves to its binding and in Python that read can sit inside a nested function or comprehension. This post walks through how ty, Astral’s Python type checker, finds local bindings nobody reads.
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How to Automate Your Workflow With Claude Code Hooks
Learn how to use Claude Code hooks that auto-format your Python code after every edit, enforce your chosen tools, and ping you when a task finishes.
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Why Your Python Agent Returns Outdated Memories
 A user changes a preference, but vector search still surfaces the old one alongside the new. Link the new memory to the one it replaces and mark the old one historical, so your agent retrieves what’s current and keeps the history. Explore the walkthrough and runnable notebook.
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Converting Documents to Markdown With MarkItDown
Learn how to use MarkItDown to convert Excel files, PDFs, and images into clean Markdown that’s ready for LLMs and AI workflows.
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Quiz: Converting Documents to Markdown With MarkItDown
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Django Security Releases Issued: 6.1.3, 6.0.10, and 5.2.19
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Agentic Coding With Codex CLI: A Live Course for Python Developers
If you pay for ChatGPT Plus, you already have Codex CLI, an agent that runs in your terminal, edits your files, and runs your tests. Over two live half-days on November 14–15, you’ll use it to build a Python CLI app from an empty directory to GitHub, write an AGENTS.md file so it follows your project’s rules, and practice debugging the code it writes. You keep the recordings. Registration closes Friday, November 13 →
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Articles & Tutorials
Soft Delete in Django Without Making a Mess
Soft delete sounds simple: add a deleted_at field and stop calling DELETE. The trouble starts a little later, when deleted rows still show up in queries. This tutorial shows a soft-delete setup that handles those cases without hiding too much magic in the model layer.
STEIN HELSET
Hello Python 3.15, Goodbye 3.10, and Now I Can Use 3.11
Simon covers the latest features in Python 3.15. If you’ve seen that already, the second half of the article is also worth reading: now that 3.10 is end-of-life, what Python 3.11 features can you use everywhere?
SIMON WILLISON
Parsing JSON at Tens of Gigabytes Per Second
This article talks about fastsimdjson, a drop-in replacement for the json module in the standard library. It has been optimized for speed, demonstrated by reading large amounts of JSON GitHub commit data.
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Why Python Devs Should Know About the ABI
Why should every Python developer know about the CPython ABI? This week on the show, we speak with Nathan Goldbaum about free-threaded Python and the changes to the Python Application Binary Interface.
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Building a Lift Scheduling Algorithm in Python
This article walks you through the logic needed to code a scheduling algorithm for elevators, starting with a single car to a more complex multi-car system.
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Histogram Plotting: NumPy, Matplotlib, pandas & Seaborn
In this tutorial, you’ll be equipped to make production-quality, presentation-ready Python histogram plots with a range of choices and features.
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Python Exceptions: An Introduction
Learn what Python exceptions are, how to raise them, how to handle them with try, except, else, and finally, and how to create custom ones.
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Python Program Lexical Structure
Dig into the Python program structure: the syntactic elements that make up statements, and how statements group into larger blocks.
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Announcing New Security Developer at the PSF
The Python Software Foundation welcomes Brett Smith as an additional security developer.
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Python’s Binary Wheels and Supply Chain Attacks
Why precompiled Python wheels are a weak spot in the supply chain security.
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