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Agentic Architecture: Why Files Aren’t Always Enough
What are the limitations of using a file-based agent workflow? Why do massive context windows tend to collapse? This week on the show, Mikiko Bazeley from MongoDB joins us to discuss agentic architecture and context engineering.
REAL PYTHON podcast

Python Is Weird
Here is a collection of things that surprised Maciej about Python. Some you might know and some that might surprise you too.
MACIEJ KOWALSKI

Harness Orchestration: The Next Primitive for AI Agents
A Python SDK that lets you compose Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini as one autonomous harness - agents become FastAPI-style routes you can wire, version, and deploy. Open source. Fork SWE-AF (a 100+ agent software factory) or our cloud-security harness as starter kits. Clone a Recipe →
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Python 3.15: Features That Didn’t Make the Headlines
Every release there are changes that don’t make the headlines, here are a few in the upcoming Python 3.15 release
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Python 3.15.0 Beta 1 Released
PYTHON.ORG

Python 3.14.5 Released
PYTHON.ORG

Announcing PSF Community Service Award Recipients
PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION

PEP 830: Add Timestamps to Exceptions and Tracebacks (Deferred to 3.16)
PYTHON.ORG

PEP 788: Protecting the C API From Interpreter Finalization (Final)
PYTHON.ORG

PEP 813: The Pretty Print Protocol (Deferred to 3.16)
PYTHON.ORG

2026 Django Developers Survey
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DjangoCon US 2026 Tickets Available
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Articles & Tutorials


PyCon US 2026 Typing Summit Recap
Per-talk notes from the PyCon US 2026 Typing Summit. Includes info on: Pyrefly and AI agents, ty constraint sets, Lean formalization, tensor shape types, intersection types, PEP 827, Guido on the direction of typing, and the Typing Council Q&A.
BERNÁT GÁBOR

Event Sourcing Design Pattern
Talk Python interviews Chris May and they discuss the event sourcing design pattern: a mechanism for databases to work like git with immutable, replayable events. Learn what libraries help you do this in Python and when to use the pattern.
TALK PYTHON podcast

Strategic Planning at the PSF
The Python Software Foundation Board has been developing a strategic plan to guide the foundation’s direction over the next five years. This post describes the process and future goals.
PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION

How Python’s GIL Actually Works (And When It Bites You)
This post explains how Python’s GIL limits the amount of concurrency you can get through threading alone, why it is there, and how it is changing as Python evolves.
ATHREYA AKA MANESHWAR

Concurrency: A Deep Dive Into Multithreading With Python
“This article explains concurrency in Python including topics like multithreading, multiprocessing, race conditions, and synchronization mechanisms such as locks.”
NIKOS VAGGALIS

Shipping Django as a Desktop App
This is a summary of Jochen Wersdörfer’s talk at DjangoCon EU where he outlined how his team used Electron to turn a Django project into an installable app.
REINOUT VAN REES

Pydantic Forks httpx
The Pydantic team has forked httpx and named it httpx2. The folks who created httpxyz have decided to let the larger organization take the reins.
MICHIEL BEIJEN

How to Flatten a List of Lists in Python
Learn how to flatten a list of lists in Python using for loops, list comprehensions, itertools, functools, NumPy, and recursion.
REAL PYTHON

Quiz: How to Flatten a List of Lists in Python
REAL PYTHON

Building Type-Safe LLM Agents With Pydantic AI
Build type-safe LLM agents in Python with Pydantic AI using structured outputs, function calling, and dependency injection.
REAL PYTHON course

Pyrefly v1.0 Is Here!
Pyrefly has reached stable version 1.0 status, read about the new features and how to get started.
PYREFLY.ORG


Projects & Code


kubex: Python Asynchronous Client for Kubernetes
GITHUB.COM/CODEMAGEDDON

gh-profiler: Examine GitHub User’s Profile
GITHUB.COM/EHMATTHES

presidio: Detect, Redact, & Anonymize Sensitive Data (PII)
GITHUB.COM/MICROSOFT

fotomagoufis: CLI Photo Correction Tool
GITHUB.COM/DIMATOSJ

DiffSinger: Advanced Singing Voice Synthesis
GITHUB.COM/OPENVPI

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