Issue #723

#723 – FEBRUARY 24, 2026 VIEW IN BROWSER

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Chained Assignment in Python Bytecode
When doing chained assignment with mutables (e.g. a == b == []) all chained values get assigned to a single mutable object. This article explains why this happens and what you can do instead.
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Great Tables: Publication-Ready Tables From DataFrames
Learn how to create publication-ready tables from Pandas and Polars DataFrames using Great Tables. Format currencies, add sparklines, apply conditional styling, and export to PNG.
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Join the Python Security Response Team!
The Python Security Response Team is a group of volunteers and PSF staff that coordinate and triage vulnerability reports and remediations. It is governed in a similar fashion to the core team. This article explains what the PSRT is and how you can join.
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A CLI to Fight GitHub Spam
Hugo is a core Python maintainer and the CPython project gets lots of garbage PRs, not just AI slop but spam tickets as well. To help with this he has written a new GitHub CLI extension that makes it easier to apply a label to the PR and close it.
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Exploring MCP Apps & Adding Interactive UIs to Clients
How can you move your MCP tools beyond plain text? How do you add interactive UI components directly inside chat conversations? This week on the show, Den Delimarsky from Anthropic joins us to discuss MCP Apps and interactive UIs in MCP.
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How to Use Overloaded Signatures in Python?
Sometimes a function takes multiple arguments of different types, and the return type depends on specific combinations of inputs. How do you tell the type checker? Use the @overload decorator from the typing module.
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icu4py: Bindings to the Unicode ICU Library
The International Components for Unicode (ICU) is the official library for Unicode and globalization tools and is used by many major projects. icu4py is a first step at a Python binding to the C++ API.
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Evolving Git for the Next Decade
This article summarizes Patrick Steinhardt’s talk at FOSDEM 2026 that discusses the current shortcomings of git and how they’re being addressed, preparing your favorite repo tool for the next decade.
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TinyDB: A Lightweight JSON Database for Small Projects
If you’re looking for a JSON document-oriented database that requires no configuration for your Python project, TinyDB could be exactly what you need.
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Quiz: TinyDB: A Lightweight JSON Database for Small Projects
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Django ORM Standalone: Querying an Existing Database
A practical step-by-step guide to using Django ORM in standalone mode to connect to and query an existing database using inspectdb.
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