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If you're debugging Python code with print calls, consider using f-strings with self-documenting expressions to make your debugging a little bit easier.

An overview of recent optimizations in Python's reference counting.

EuroPython wouldn't exist if it weren't for all the volunteers who put in countless hours to organize it. Whether it's contracting the venue, selecting and confirming talks & workshops or coordinating with speakers, hundreds of hours of loving work . ...

I gave a lightning talk at a bunch of conferences in 2025 about some of the exciting new things coming in Python 3.14, including template strings. One thing we can use t-strings for is to prevent SQL injection. The user gives you an untrusted T ...

PyCoder's Weekly included over 1,500 links to articles, blog posts, tutorials, and projects in 2025. Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week to help wrap up everything by sharing some highlights and uncovering a few hidden gems from the ...

Disruption, too, will be disrupted.

Just heard the news from the WULFF Den Podcast that Epilogue has released pre-orders for the next ROM backup tool in their "Operator" series for the Super NES (SNES) and Super Famicom called the "S ...

Python automatically concatenates adjacent string literals thanks to implicit string concatenation. This feature can sometimes lead to bugs.

Happy new year! ???? For an upcoming project on the blog requiring many video-game sprites I've created a small tool ("sugarcookie") using the always-lovely Python image-processing library Pillow. Thi ...

2025 in review here on The Python Coding Stack ...