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Explore how Python 3.14 improves error messages with clearer explanations, actionable hints, and better debugging support for developers.

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Quiz: Python 3.14 Preview: Better Syntax Error Messages #python

Customizing VS Code Through Color Themes

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🐍📺 Customizing VS Code Through Color Themes [Video]

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A well-designed coding environment enhances your focus and productivity and makes coding sessions more enjoyable. In this **Code Conversation**, your instructor Philipp Ascany will guide you step-by-step through the process of finding, installing, and ...

What Are Python Raw Strings?

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🐍 What Are Python Raw Strings? 📰

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In this tutorial, you'll learn the nuances of using raw string literals in your Python source code. Raw strings offer convenient syntax for including backslash characters in string literals without the complexity of escape sequences:

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🐍🎧 Python 3.14: Exploring the New Features

Python 3.14 is here!

Christopher Trudeau returns to discuss the new version with Bartosz Zaczyński, Real Python team member.

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PyCoder’s Weekly | Issue #704

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📰🐍 Get the best Python links of the week: PyCoder’s Weekly Issue #704: Python 3.14 Released and More (Oct. 14, 2025) pycoders.com/issues/704

Python 3.14 Released and More

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Posted by Jacob Walls on Oct. 1, 2025

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Django Security Releases Issued: 5.2.7, 5.1.13, and 4.2.25 #python

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Managing Python Projects With uv: An All-in-One Solution

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🐍 Managing Python Projects With uv: An All-in-One Solution 📰

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create and manage your Python projects using uv, an extremely fast Python package and project manager written in Rust:

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PyOhio 2025 Videos Online #python

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Python's Format Mini-Language for Tidy Strings

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🐍 Python's Format Mini-Language for Tidy Strings 📰

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In this tutorial, you'll learn about Python's format mini-language. You'll learn how to use the mini-language to create working format specifiers and build nicely formatted strings and messages in your code:

Python Descriptors – Real Python

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📺🐍 Python Descriptors realpython.com/courses/pyth...

Learn what Python descriptors are, how the descriptor protocol works, and where descriptors are useful, with hands-on examples.

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🐍📰 How to Use Python: Your First Steps

Learn how to use Python—install it, run code, and work with data types, functions, classes, and loops. Explore essential tools and build a solid foundation

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In 2020, Seth Larson and Andrey Petrov made a bet about whether `six`, the Python 2 compatibility shim would still be in the top 20 PyPI downloads. Set won, but probably only because of a single library still using it.

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Winning a Bet About `six` #python

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🐍📺 When to Use .__repr__() vs .__str__() in Python [Video]

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When to Use .__repr__() vs .__str__() in Python

In this video course, you'll learn the difference between the string representations returned by .__repr__() vs .__str__() and understand how to use them effectively in classes that you define

Primer on Python Decorators – Real Python

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🐍 Primer on Python Decorators 📰

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In this tutorial, you'll look at what Python decorators are and how you define and use them. Decorators can make your code more readable and reusable. Come take a look at how decorators work under the hood and practice writing your own decorators.

This PEP proposes a standard mechanism through which arbitrary Python package indices can support “Trusted Publishing,” a misuse-resistant credential exchange scheme already implemented by the Python Package Index (PyPI).

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PEP 807: Index Support for Trusted Publishing (Added) #python

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Shallow vs Deep Copying of Python Objects

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🐍 Shallow vs Deep Copying of Python Objects 📰

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What's the difference between a shallow copy and a deep copy of a Python object? Learn how to clone arbitrary objects in Python, including your own custom classes:

Python 3.14 introduces t-strings and this article shows you `tdom` a new HTML DOM toolkit that takes advantage of them to produce safer output.

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Introducing `tdom`: HTML Templating With `t‑strings` #python

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BNF Notation: Dive Deeper Into Python's Grammar

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🐍 BNF Notation: Dive Deeper Into Python's Grammar 📰

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In this tutorial, you'll learn about Backus–Naur form notation (BNF), which is typically used for defining the grammar of programming languages. Python uses a variation of BNF, and here, you'll learn how to read it to get a better understanding of some...

How to Use Python: Your First Steps – Real Python

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🐍📰 How to Use Python: Your First Steps realpython.com/python-first...

Learn how to use Python—install it, run code, and work with data types, functions, classes, and loops. Explore essential tools and build a solid foundation.

Creating and Manipulating PDFs in Python With borb

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🐍🎧 The Real Python Podcast — Creating and Manipulating PDFs in Python With borb

Have you wanted to generate PDFs from your Python project? Many of the current libraries require designing the document down at the pixel level. Would you be interested in a tool that lets you specify the page layout while it handles the specific detai...

The Stable ABI as abi3 can no longer be preserved, and requires replacement. abi2026 will be the first replacement, providing resolution of current known incompatibilities, with planned retirement after at least 10 years. The next ABI (for example, abi...

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PEP 809: Stable ABI for the Future (Added) #python

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🐍📺 Using Pydantic to Simplify Python Data Validation [Video]

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Using Pydantic to Simplify Python Data Validation

Discover the power of Pydantic, Python's most popular data parsing, validation, and serialization library. In this hands-on video course, you'll learn how to make your code more robust, trustworthy, and easier to debug with Pydantic

How to Read User Input From the Keyboard in Python

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🐍🎧 Python 3.14: Exploring the New Features

Python 3.14 is here!

Christopher Trudeau returns to discuss the new version with Real Python team member Bartosz Zaczyński.

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🐍 How to Read User Input From the Keyboard in Python 📰

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Reading user input from the keyboard is a valuable skill for a Python programmer, and you can create interactive and advanced programs that run on the terminal. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create robust user input programs, integrating error ...