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News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Sep 1st, 2026 ...

Calling all Python library maintainers! The second and final Python 3.15 release candidate is out! It's your last chance to join the cool testers' club and say that YOU helped test 3.15 before the big day on 1st October! PEP 790 defines the release ...

It's time to cast your vote! Voting for the 2026 PSF Board Election is open starting today Tuesday, September 1st, 2:00 pm UTC, through Tues ...

It's time to cast your vote! Voting for the inaugural 2026 Python Packaging Council (PPC) Election is open now through September 15 at 2:00 ...

Last chance to test before the big day!

This blog post was inspired by discovering that Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire, a legendarily rare and expensive GameCube game in the United States (>$2,500 USD), could be purchased complete-i ...

The same unit tests written with unittest.mock and with wrapture, focusing on the cases where wrapping the real code rather than replacing it changes what a test can say.

Learn how to fine-tune YOLO12, YOLO26, and RF-DETR on specialized real-world datasets in PyCharm: from COCO baselines to zero-shot testing to domain-adapted detectors.

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