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Getting started with a new GUI framework can feel daunting. This guide walks you through the essentials of Flet, from installation and a first app to widgets, layouts, and event handling. With...
Microsoft Dataverse with Python and Zato Services 2025-12-15, by Dariusz Suchojad Overview Microsoft Dataverse is a cloud-based data storage and management platform, often used with PowerApps and...
tl;dr Starting in January 2026, all free accounts will shift to community-powered support instead of direct support and will have some reduced features. If you want to upgrade, you can lock in the...
tl;dr We’re restructuring our pricing for the first time since 2013. We’re combining the Hacker ($5/month or €5/month in the EU system) and Web Developer ($12/month or €12/month in the EU system)...
EuroPython wouldn&apost exist without the dedicated volunteers who invest countless hours behind the scenes.From coordinating speaker logistics and managing registration systems to designing the...
At this year’s EuroPython Society General Assembly (GA), planned for Wednesday, December 17th, 2025, 20:00 CET, we will vote in a new board of the EuroPython Society for the term 2025/2026List of...
A few weeks ago I released Johnnycanencrypt 0.17.0. It is a Python module written in Rust, which provides OpenPGP functionality including allows usage of Yubikey 4/5 as smartcards. Added Adds...
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...
The Python Steering Council 2026 election results are in and congratulations to the new Python Steering Council! Barry Warsaw Donghee Na Pablo Galindo Salgado Savannah Ostrowski Thomas Wouters...
For years, building interactive widgets in Python notebooks meant wrestling with toolchains, platform quirks, and a mountain of JavaScript machinery. Most developers took one look and backed away...
I’ve been moving all my MCPs to skills, including the remaining one I still used: the Sentry MCP1. Previously I had already moved entirely away from Playwright to a Playwright skill. In the last...
Look, we know the truth. Python is the best language ever written. It reads like English, it runs the AI revolution, and it doesn’t force us to worry about memory pointers or semi-colons. But even...
The PSF is pleased to announce its third batch of PSF Fellows for 2025! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q3! The following people continue to do amazing things for the Python...
The Code of Conduct working group received 4 reports and met 12 times in 2025. This transparency report is a brief account of how those reports were handled. This year’s number is lower than...
The news you’ve been waiting for is finally here: registration for PyCon US 2026 is officially open! PyCon US will take place May 13 - May 19, 2026, in Long Beach, California at the Long Beach...
I've decided to add static type checking to my blog engine project. The tool I chose is pyrefly, a fast, Rust-based library for checking types in Python. Installing Pyrefly with UV My project uses...
Learn how to create inner functions in Python to access nonlocal names, build stateful closures, and create decorators.
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...
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