datasette-cluster-map 0.19
Release: datasette-cluster-map 0.19 One of the oldest Datasette plugins, and still one of my favorites. It now works with Datasette 1.0a42, and depends on the new datasette-leaflet to ensure OpenStreetMap tiles are…
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datasette-leaflet 0.3
Release: datasette-leaflet 0.3 OpenStreetMap have a very reasonable policy that hits to their hosted tile server should send a referrer header. Datasette table pages used the Referrer-Policy: no-referrer HTTP header,…
Python is for everyone: Join in the PSF year-end fundraiser & membership drive!
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is the charitable organization behind Python, dedicated to advancing, supporting, and protecting the Python programming language and the community that sustains it. That mission is…
Robin Wilson: I released Cloud-Native Environment Agency DEM data!
At the FOSS4G UK 2026 conference in October, I gave a talk announcing that I’d re-released the Environment Agency DEM data for England in cloud-native formats. This was covering some work I did for my client Rebalance…
James Bennett: Boring Python: dependency management
This post has been updated since it was originally written. The most recent update was in November 2026; a summary of what changed is at the end. This is the first in hopefully a series of posts I intend to write about…
I counted the tokens in 6 popular repos the way a coding agent sees them
I kept wondering how much of what a coding agent reads in a repo is actually useful to it. So I wrote a small CLI that walks a repo, estimates tokens per file the way a model sees them, and flags files that cost tokens…
Mike C. Fletcher: Tim Peters will be missed
Tim spent a very long time in the early days of Python List teaching me all sorts of things I didn't know from my father's scattershot teaching as a child. He was generous with his time, full of humour and willing to…
Keyword Search Tied an 8B Embedding Model at Picking Agent Tools
On 200 ToolRet questions and up to 3,794 tools, BM25 ran about 40x faster than BGE-large on just a CPU, and full tool docs made it the best setup tested. The post Keyword Search Tied an 8B Embedding Model at Picking…
Mike C. Fletcher: PyOpenGL 4.0.0b1 Released
So we seem to have reached mostly-stable state for the PyOpenGL 4.0.0 release. There's no other planned major changes to the core library, so unless we see significant regressions we'll likely release 4.0.0 final over…
How Jev Makes Decisions About Images, With 4 Python Examples
Practical code for classifying fabric against reference photos, scoring product sharpness, cropping shipping labels, and spotting subtle car damage. The post How Jev Makes Decisions About Images, With 4 Python Examples…
PyCharm: What’s Fixed and Improved in PyCharm 2026.3
PyCharm 2026.3 is here! Alongside major features like JetBrains Air, workspaces, Python 3.15 lazy imports, and the redesigned interpreter widget, this release includes 303 fixes and improvements to everyday Python…
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, firefox, gcc, grafana, grafana-pcp, gstreamer1, gstreamer1-plugins-base, java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, libimobiledevice,…
Get Started With Meta Muse in Python: Spark and Glimmer
Get started with Meta Muse in Python. Make your first Muse Spark call, then add streaming, images, and tool calls, and try the open-weights Glimmer.
Anthropic and Google Make Their Best AI Models Cheaper
Real Python's weekly AI news for November 7–13, 2026, explained in plain language: Cheaper Claude, Google's Strongest Gemini, and a Faster Gemini.
What AI Agents Speed Up in PhD Research, and What They Can't
A PhD student in ML and ecology on why faster code, experiments, and drafts don't fix data with a backstory, and three predictions for how labs will change. The post What AI Agents Speed Up in PhD Research, and What…
How to Check Local LLM Output with Ollama, Gemma 4, and Nimble
Gemma 4 E2B drafts the replies, Bespoke Labs' Nimble 9B picks accept, revise, or human review, and only flagged questions get a focused retry. The post How to Check Local LLM Output with Ollama, Gemma 4, and Nimble…
Quiz: Working With JSON in Python
Test your understanding of Python's json module, from serializing and deserializing data to encoding and decoding custom types.
The Real Python Podcast – Episode #319: Mentoring Developers Beyond the Code With Tim Schilling
What's it take to be a mentor to developers? Where in an engineer's career can a mentor make an impact? This week we speak with Tim Schilling, Django Steering Council member and Djangonaut Space administrator, about…
Call "__set_name__" on the attribute "__wrapped__" if the object's type doesn't have "__set_name__" but the object has "__wrapped__"
The question is that the decorator may break the wrapper object’s behavior if it’s behavior depends on whether the “__set_name__” is called. The fake code is like: def find_set_name_and_call(obj, owner, name,…
Graham Dumpleton: Muru: canaries without a service mesh
In releases, not restarts I showed the Muru daemon deploying a new release beside the one serving, and only moving traffic across once the new release was ready. That protects you from a release which can't start. It…