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Introduction to Web Scraping With Python
In this video course, you’ll learn all about web scraping in Python. You’ll see how to parse data from websites and interact with HTML forms using tools such as Beautiful Soup and MechanicalSoup.
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State of Python 3.13 Performance: Free-Threading
This article does a comparison between code in single threaded, threaded, and multi-process versions under Python 3.12, 3.13, and 3.13 free-threaded with the GIL on and off.
ARTHUR PASTEL

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Tiny Great Languages: Assembly
This is the first post in a multi-part series that uses Python to build tiny interpreters for other languages.
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Django Bugfix Release Issued: 5.1.3
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PyCon US 2025 (Pittsburgh) Call for Proposals
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Quiz: Beautiful Soup: Build a Web Scraper With Python
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Quiz: Pydantic: Simplifying Data Validation in Python
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Opposite of Cloud Native Is…?
Michael (from Talk Python fame) introduces the concept of “stack-native” as the opposite of “cloud-native”, and how it applies to Python web apps. Building applications with just enough full-stack building blocks to run reliably with minimal complexity, rather than relying on a multitude of cloud services.
MICHAEL KENNEDY

How to Reset a pandas DataFrame Index
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to reset a pandas DataFrame index using various techniques. You’ll also learn why you might want to do this and understand the problems you can avoid by optimizing the index structure.
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Do Your Data Science Teams Struggle to Share Their Work With Their Colleagues Securely
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Python Closures: Common Use Cases and Examples
In this tutorial, you’ll learn about Python closures. A closure is a function-like object with an extended scope. You can use closures to create decorators, factory functions, stateful functions, and more.
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In Defense of Simple Architectures
You can go surprisingly far with a simple software architecture, in fact simplicity can make it easier to scale. This post talks about some real world cases of just that.
DAN LUU

Vehicle Routing Using OpenStreetMap
This project shows you how to implement the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) using OpenStreetMap data and Google’s OR-Tools library to find efficient routes.
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Guide to Python Project Management and Packaging
This is a deep dive article on Python project management and packaging. It covers the pyproject.toml file, modules, dependencies, locking, and more.
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I Waited 10B Cycles and All I Got Was This Loading Screen
This opinion piece discusses the fact that our faster hardware still can’t keep up with our bloated software and why that is the case.
PRANAV NUTALAPTI

Thoughts on Django’s Core
This post by a Django core developer talks about the last twenty years of the library and why it has had such staying power.
CARLTON GIBSON

map and filter With List Comprehensions
This quick-hit post shows you how to use the map() and filter() functions in conjunction with list comprehensions.
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Don’t Return Named Tuples in New APIs
This post talks about when and when not to use a named tuple in your API and why you might make that choice.
BRETT CANNON


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