Issue #711

#711 – DECEMBER 2, 2025 VIEW IN BROWSER

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Generalising itertools.pairwise
This article teaches you about itertools.pairwise, a function for accessing pairs of components over an iterable. Learn where it is helpful and what its limitations are.
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Why Your Mock Breaks Later
An overly aggressive mock can work fine, but then break much later. If you don’t mock the right spot in your code you can break other testing libraries.
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Microsoft Announces SQL Server Python Driver
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PyPI and Shai-Hulud: Staying Secure Amid Emerging Threats
There is an attack on-going in the JavaScript/NPM world that has been named Shai-Hulud. It has targeted a large number of packages. So far, PyPI has not been exploited, but attempts have been made. This post explains what the folks at PyPI are doing to prevent problems and how you can protect yourself.
MIKE FIEDLER

Understanding the Different POST Content Types
When writing code that accepts user data on the web, you usually are using the HTTP POST method. POST supports several different types of data in the request body. This post teaches you about each of them, with examples in Django to make it clearer.
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American Data Centers
This step-by-step post shows you how to do data analysis on the Business Insider’s dataset on American Data Centres. The analysis uses a variety of tools, including the Python esprima library for parsing, duckdb, and more.
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Django: Implement HTTP Bearer Authentication
HTTP Bearer is a header-based mechanism authentication mechanism. There are many Django frameworks that support it, but some can be a little heavy weight. Learn how to handle HTTP Bearer Authentication in your own code.
ADAM JOHNSON

Pydantic Can Do What?
Pydantic started out as a validation library but over the years it has added many useful features. It includes a full-featured settings loader which can read from multiple env files, config files, and cloud vaults.
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Why Django’s DATETIME_FORMAT Ignores You
A dive into why Django’s DATETIME_FORMAT setting seems to do nothing, and how to actually force the 24-hour clock in the admin, even when your locale says otherwise.
KEVIN RENSKERS

Disable Network Requests When Running pytest
Even with diligent mocking of external requests, a few web requests can still slip through. A quick pytest fixture can force a failure though, saving you from problems.
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Why Developers Still Flock to Python
This interview with Python creator Guido van Rossum covers everything from writing readable code to AI and the future of programming.
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