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AI-Extracted Asian Building Footprints
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Why We Wrote a New Form Library for Django
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7 Ways to Use Jupyter Notebooks Inside PyCharm
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Unified Python Packaging With uv
Talk Python interviews Charlie Marsh, the maintainer of ruff, and they talk about uv and other projects at Astral.
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It’s Time to Stop Using Python 3.8
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