It’s been a fascinating year for the Python language and community. PyCoder’s Weekly included over 1,500 links to articles, blog posts, tutorials, and projects in 2023. Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week to help wrap up everything by sharing some highlights and Python trends from across the year.

Christopher shares the top five links explored by PyCoder’s readers. We also dig into trends we noticed across all the articles and stories this year, including removing dead batteries from the standard library, continuing the effort to speed up Python, using Rust code in libraries, and moving away from microservices.

We hope you enjoy this review! We look forward to bringing you an upcoming year full of great Python news, articles, topics, and projects.

Course Spotlight: Python Basics: Building Systems With Classes

In this video course, you’ll learn how to work with classes to build complex systems in Python. By composing classes, inheriting from other classes, and overriding class behavior, you’ll harness the power of object-oriented programming (OOP).

Topics:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:02:21 – Python 3.13.0 Alpha 2 Is Now Available
00:02:46 – Welcoming the Supporting Developer in Residence
00:03:25 – Django 5.0 Released
00:03:34 – Django Ninja 1.0 Released
00:04:11 – Top Five PyCoder Links
00:05:00 – Python 3.12: Cool New Features for You to Try
00:05:27 – Speeding Up Your Code When Multiple Cores Aren’t an Option
00:05:46 – Learning About Code Metrics in Python With Radon
00:06:07 – Python 3.12 Preview: More Intuitive and Consistent F-Strings
00:06:28 – Design and Guidance: Object-Oriented Programming in Python
00:07:49 – Python 3.12: What Didn’t Make the Headlines
00:11:34 – Python 3.13 Removes 20 Stdlib Modules
00:13:32 – Missing Batteries: Essential Libraries You’re Missing Out On
00:16:21 – More Batteries Please
00:19:19 – Three Python Trends in 2023
00:24:36 – Video Course Spotlight
00:26:23 – Mojo, a Superset of Python
00:27:54 – Why Mojo?
00:28:14 – Mojo SDK Released for Linux
00:28:19 – Mojo: Head-to-Head With Python and Numba
00:29:22 – How We Organize Our Very Large Python Monolith
00:34:11 – Python and Folium to Visualize My Outdoor Activities
00:37:13 – Thanks and goodbye

News:

Top Five PyCoder Links:

Python 3.12: Cool New Features for You to Try – In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the new features in Python 3.12. You’ll explore how the new release extends the better error messages and faster code execution found in the previous version, and you’ll try out the improvements to f-strings and type variable syntax.
Speeding Up Your Code When Multiple Cores Aren’t an Option – Parallelism isn’t the only answer: often you can optimize low-level code to get significant performance improvements.
Learning About Code Metrics in Python With Radon – Radon is a code metrics tool. This article introduces you to it and explains how you can improve your code based on its measurements.
Python 3.12 Preview: More Intuitive and Consistent F-Strings – In this tutorial, you’ll preview one of the upcoming features of Python 3.12, which introduces a new f-string syntax formalization and implementation. The new implementation lifts some restrictions and limitations that affect f-string literals in Python versions lower than 3.12.
Design and Guidance: Object-Oriented Programming in Python – In this video course, you’ll learn about the SOLID principles, which are five well-established standards for improving your object-oriented design in Python. By applying these principles, you can create object-oriented code that is more maintainable, extensible, scalable, and testable.

Topics and 2023 Trends:

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Python Folium: Create Web Maps From Your Data – Real Python
Creating Web Maps From Your Data With Python Folium – Real Python

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