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Django vs. FastAPI, an Honest Comparison David has worked with Django for a long time, but recently has done some deeper coding with FastAPI. As a result, he’s able to provide a good contrast between the libraries and why/when you might choose one over the other. DAVID DAHAN

Building New Structures for Learning Python What are the new ways we can teach and share our knowledge about Python? How can we improve the structure of our current offerings and build new educational resources for our audience of Python learners? This week on the show, Real Python core team members Stephen Gruppetta and Martin Breuss join us to discuss enhancements to the site...

Automated Accessibility Audits for Python Web Apps This article covers how to automatically audit your web apps for accessibility standards. The associated second part covers how to do snapshot testing for the same PAMELAFOX.ORG

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Software Bill of Materials Packaging Proposal A new Python packaging proposal, PEP 770, introduces SBOM support to tackle the “phantom dependency” problem, making it easier to track non-Python components that security tools often miss. SOCKET.DEV • Shared by Sarah Gooding

Unpacking kwargs With Custom Objects You may have unpacked a dictionary using **kwargs mechanism in Python, but did you know you can write this capability into your own classes? This quick TIL article covers how to write a __getitem__() method. RODRIGO GIRÃO SERRÃO

State of the Art Python in 2024 This opinion piece shows which Python tools Anders thinks should be used when developing in Python. ANDERS SUNDMAN

Project Quarantine In the ongoing battle to protect us from malicious packages, the folks at PyPI have added a new feature with the ability to quarantine a package. This post from PyPI’s security engineer talks about how this works. MIKE FIEDLER

Building HTTP APIs With Django REST Framework This course will get you ready to build HTTP APIs with Django REST Framework. The Django REST framework (DRF) is a toolkit built on top of the Django web framework that reduces the amount of code you need to write to create REST interfaces. REAL PYTHON video

Python: Create Temporary Files and Directories in Unittest Sometimes, tests need temporary files or directories. You can do this in Python’s unittest with the standard library tempfile module. This post looks at some recipes to do so within individual tests and setUp(). ADAM JOHNSON

The Inner Workings of Python Dataclasses Explained Discover how Python dataclasses work internally! Learn how to use __annotations__ and exec() to make our own dataclass decorator! JACOB PADILLA

Database Optimization Isn’t Always Obvious “One of the issues of working with abstractions is that what you think may be logically true, isn’t.” Ken came across an article recently with advice specific to a Django ORM call, but the ORM is itself an abstraction over SQL, an abstraction. Global statements on performance are tricky. KEN WHITESELL

Concurrency: Threads, Processes, and asyncio Explained A practical guide to Python concurrency using a Fibonacci server to demonstrate the strengths and limitations of threads, processes, and asyncio. Learn when to use each approach through hands-on examples NEWVICK LEE • Shared by Newvick Lee

Mistakes Engineers Make in Large Established Codebases This is a “lessons learned” article from someone who has spent a lot of time in multi-million lines-of-code environments. SEAN GOEDECKE

Python PEPs Graph An interactive representation of all Python Enhancement Proposals and which other PEPs each references. PYTHON-PEPS-GRAPH.GLITCH.ME