What is a good way to add isolated, reusable functionality to Python classes? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects.

Christopher covers a recent Real Python tutorial about developing mixin classes to reuse code across multiple Python classes. He describes how mixins rely on multiple inheritance to combine features from different classes, enhancing flexibility and code reuse.

We also share several other articles and projects from the Python community, including a news roundup, highlights from the 2024 Python Developers Survey, reasons you might not need a Python class, an exploration of asyncio’s sharp corners, an explanation of how JIT builds of CPython work, a web-based GUI library, and a project for quickly querying Python lists.

This episode is sponsored by InfluxData.

Course Spotlight: 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’s more maintainable, extensible, scalable, and testable.

Topics:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:03:14 – Python 3.13.7 Released
00:03:38 – Python 3.14.0rc2 Released
00:04:10 – PEP 802: Display Syntax for the Empty Set
00:04:59 – Announcing the PSF Board Candidates for 2025
00:05:26 – Rodrigo - PSF - Community Service Award for Q2 2025
00:06:06 – Python Developers Survey 2024 Results
00:13:27 – pyx: A Python-Native Package Registry
00:15:12 – Test & Code Final Episode
00:15:48 – You Might Not Need a Python Class
00:20:52 – Sponsor: InfluxData
00:21:44 – asyncio: A Library With Too Many Sharp Corners
00:25:43 – How JIT Builds of CPython Actually Work
00:35:21 – Video Course Spotlight
00:37:12 – What Are Mixin Classes in Python?
00:44:05 – nicegui: Create Web-Based UI With Python
00:46:51 – leopards: Quickly query your Python lists
00:49:00 – Thanks and goodbye

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News:

Python 3.13.7 Released
Python 3.14.0rc2 Released
PEP 802: Display Syntax for the Empty Set (Added)
Announcing the PSF Board Candidates for 2025 – The Python Software Foundation elections are upon us, and this post announces this year’s candidates. Voting is September 2nd to 16th. To vote, you must be registered by August 26th.
Rodrigo - PSF - Community Service Award for Q2 2025
Python Developers Survey 2024 Results
The State of Python 2025 - The PyCharm Blog
pyx: A Python-Native Package Registry, Now in Beta – The folks at Astral, who brought you uv and more, have created a new commercial Python-native package registry called “pyx”.
Test & Code Final Episode – After 10 years and 237 episodes, Brian Okken has decided to stop recording Test & Code. He’ll still be contributing to Python Bytes. Here’s to all his work on a great podcast over the last decade.

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You Might Not Need a Python Class – If you’re coming from other languages, you might think a class is the easiest way to do something, but Python has other options. This post shows you some alternatives and why you might choose them.
asyncio: A Library With Too Many Sharp Corners – asyncio has a few gotchas and this post describes five different problems, including: cancellation, disappearing tasks, and more.
How JIT Builds of CPython Actually Work – You don’t have to be a compiler engineer to understand how your code runs in a JIT build of CPython. This article runs you through just what happens under the covers.
What Are Mixin Classes in Python? – Learn how to use Python mixin classes to write modular, reusable, and flexible code with practical examples and design tips.

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