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Build a Dice-Rolling Application With Python In this step-by-step project, you’ll build a dice-rolling simulator app with a minimal text-based user interface using Python. The app will simulate the rolling of up to six dice. Each individual die will have six sides. REAL PYTHON

Sustainable Coding: How Do I Apply It as a Cloud Engineer? Choices we make as programmers effect the amount of processing power required in production and ultimately that has a carbon cost. Ed’s post talks about how he thinks about this larger picture. ED CREWE

Font Ligatures for Your Code Editor and Terminal A font ligature combines two characters into a single rendering, allowing “>=” to look like a single symbol. This article shows you how you can do this with common terminals and editors. MIGUEL GRINBERG

Python Discord 2024 Survey Report The Python Discord server does an annual survey. This page is a giant notebook showing the results for the last four years along with the code that generates the corresponding graphs. PYTHON DISCORD

The Boolean Trap Often when using a Boolean in an API you are making the API harder to understand. This post explains why most of the time you should use enums instead. ENGINEER’S CODEX

Positron is Now Available for Beta Testing Positron is a next-gen data science IDE built by Posit PBC. It’s an extensible tool for writing python & exploring data, designed for reproducible research & publishing. Consider trying Positron & offering the devs feedback in this beta period. POSIT sponsor

Maybe Don’t Start With Unit Tests Should you always start testing your code with unit tests? When does it make sense to look at integration or end-to-end testing as a first step instead? This week on the show, we speak with previous guest Eric Matthes about where to begin testing your code. REAL PYTHON podcast

Open Graph Images in Django for Social Media The Open Graph protocol specifies metadata for a webpage that gives third party sites information about the page. The most common use is to provide a preview image for social media sites. This post explains how to combine this into your Django projects. AIDAS BENDORAITIS

Working With Python Polars Welcome to the world of Polars, a powerful DataFrame library for Python. In this video course, you’ll get a hands-on introduction to Polars’ core features and see why this library is catching so much buzz. REAL PYTHON course

Beating LinkedIn “Queens” With Python LinkedIn publishes a daily logic puzzle called “Queens” that is a cross between a chess queen placement puzzle and Sudoku. This article shows how to write a Python script to solve the puzzles. RODRIGO GIRÃO SERRÃO

ASCII Control Characters in My Terminal Ever wonder about those ASCII control characters in your terminal, like CTRL-C to kill a program? Well wonder no more, Julia breaks down what they are and how they can be used. JULIA EVANS

Bytes Objects: Handling Binary Data in Python In this tutorial, you’ll learn about Python’s bytes objects, which help you process low-level binary data. You’ll explore how to create and manipulate byte sequences in Python and how to convert between bytes and strings. Additionally, you’ll practice this knowledge by coding a few fun examples. REAL PYTHON

Which Python GUI Library Should You Use in 2025? This post compares the Python GUI libraries available in 2025, including PyQT, PySide, TKinter, and Kivy. MARTIN FITZPATRICK

Good Programmers Worry About Data Structures and Their Relationships This opinion piece discusses a quote from Linus Torvalds, that good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. LEONARDO CREED

Exploiting Python Pickles Python has a built-in mechanism for serializing and deserializing objects known as “pickling”. It comes with the caveat that you should never use it with untrusted data, it can lead to remote code execution. DAVID HAMANN

Python while Loops: Repeating Tasks Conditionally In this tutorial, you’ll learn about indefinite iteration using the Python while loop. You’ll be able to construct basic and complex while loops, interrupt loop execution with break and continue, use the else clause with a while loop, and deal with infinite loops. REAL PYTHON