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Koan 12: The Peril of Unquoted Arguments #python

Exploring the dangerous power of unquoted Python strings, and how they caused CVE-2024-9287

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Real Python @realpython.com · 7h

🐍📺 Interacting With REST APIs and Python [Video]

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Interacting With REST APIs and Python

In this video course, you'll learn how to use Python to communicate with REST APIs. You'll learn about REST architecture and how to use the requests library to get data from a REST API. You'll also explore different Python tools you can use to build RE...

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Real Python @realpython.com · 10h

🐍 Pydantic: Simplifying Data Validation in Python 📰

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Pydantic: Simplifying Data Validation in Python

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

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Real Python @realpython.com · 15h

🐍 What Are Mixin Classes in Python? 📰

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What Are Mixin Classes in Python?

Learn how to use Python mixin classes to write modular, reusable, and flexible code with practical examples and design tips:

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Real Python @realpython.com · 18h

🐍 Python's __all__: Packages, Modules, and Wildcard Imports 📰

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Python's __all__: Packages, Modules, and Wildcard Imports

In this tutorial, you'll learn about wildcard imports and the __all__ variable in Python. With __all__, you can prepare your packages and modules for wildcard imports, which are a quick way to import everything:

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Real Python @realpython.com · 18h

🐍 Python Term of the Day: JetBrains AI Assistant (AI Coding Tools)

An AI-powered companion for JetBrains IDEs.

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JetBrains AI Assistant | AI Coding Tools – Real Python

An AI-powered companion for JetBrains IDEs.

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Real Python @realpython.com · 19h

🐍📰 Python 3.14: Cool New Features for You to Try

Python 3.14: Cool New Features for You to Try – Real Python

Learn what's new in Python 3.14, including an upgraded REPL, template strings, lazy annotations, and subinterpreters, with examples to try in your code.

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Real Python @realpython.com · 21h

🐍📰 Python's .append(): Add Items to Your Lists in Place — realpython.com/python-append/
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Real Python @realpython.com · 21h

❓🐍 Quiz: Python 3.14: Cool New Features for You to Try Quiz realpython.com/quizzes/pyth...

Python 3.14: Cool New Features for You to Try Quiz – Real Python

In this quiz, you'll test your understanding of the new features introduced in Python 3.14. By working through this quiz, you'll review the key updates and improvements in this version of Python.

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Real Python @realpython.com · 1d

🐍🎧 The Real Python Podcast — Python Thread Safety & Managing Projects With uv

Python Thread Safety & Managing Projects With uv

What are the ways you can manage multithreaded code in Python? What synchronization techniques are available within Python's threading module? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and pr...

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Real Python @realpython.com · 1d

SCREAM CIPHER ("ǠĂȦẶAẦ ĂǍÄẴẶȦ") #python

Seth discovered that there are more accented Latin A characters than letters in the 26 letters in the Roman alphabet. So what's a guy to do but create a cipher.

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Real Python @realpython.com · 1d

🐍📺 Simulate a Text File in Python [Video]

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Simulate a Text File in Python

Testing an application that reads files from a disk can be complicated. It may depend on the machine, require special access, or be frustratingly slow. This course shows you how to simulate a text file using Python to simplify testing

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Real Python @realpython.com · 1d

🐍🎧 Advice on Beginning to Learn Python

What's changed about learning Python over the last few years? This week on the show, @stephengruppetta.com and Martin Breuss return to discuss the basics of learning Python.

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Real Python @realpython.com · 1d

🐍 How to Format Floats Within F-Strings in Python 📰

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How to Format Floats Within F-Strings in Python

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Python format specifiers within an f-string to allow you to neatly format a float to your required precision. You'll also learn how to extract digits from existing strings and format them as well:

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Real Python @realpython.com · 1d

🐍📰 It's Almost Time for Python 3.14 and Other Python News

The final release of Python 3.14 is almost here! Plus, there's Django 6.0 alpha, key PEP updates, PSF board results, and fresh Real Python resources

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Real Python @realpython.com · 1d

📰🐍 Get the best Python links of the week: PyCoder’s Weekly Issue #703: PEP 8, Error Messages in Python 3.14, splitlines(), and More (Oct. 7, 2025) pycoders.com/issues/703

PyCoder’s Weekly | Issue #703

PEP 8, Error Messages in Python 3.14, splitlines(), and More

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Real Python @realpython.com · 1d

PEP 782: Add PyBytesWriter C API (Final) #python

Add a new PyBytesWriter C API to create bytes objects.

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Real Python @realpython.com · 1d

🐍 Python 3.14 is out! 🎉

This version includes significant upgrades.

We would like to thank everyone who contributed to this version. 👏

Our website features a series of blog posts about the new features in Python 3.14.

Go and learn about what this new version has for you, and Happy Pythoning!

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Real Python @realpython.com · 1d

🐍📰 What Does isinstance() Do in Python?

Learn what isinstance() does in Python and how to use this built-in function to check an object's type. Discover its practical uses along with key limitations

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What Does isinstance() Do in Python?

Learn what isinstance() does in Python and how to use this built-in function to check an object's type. Discover its practical uses along with key limitations:

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Real Python @realpython.com · 1d

Sprints Are the Best Part of a Conference #python

This post talks about just what happens at a PyCon sprint and why you might want to join the next one. Last year alone 370 new PRs were opened at PyCon US and almost another 300 got merged into the code.

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Real Python @realpython.com · 1d

🐍 Write Unit Tests for Your Python Code With ChatGPT 📰

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Write Unit Tests for Your Python Code With ChatGPT

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use ChatGPT to generate tests for your Python code. You'll use the chat to create doctest, unittest, and pytest tests for your code:

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Real Python @realpython.com · 1d

🐍 Python Term of the Day: GitHub Copilot Chat (AI Coding Tools)

A conversational AI coding assistant embedded in editors and on GitHub.

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GitHub Copilot Chat | AI Coding Tools – Real Python

A conversational AI coding assistant embedded in editors and on GitHub.

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