What advice would you give to someone moving from another language to Python? What good programming practices are inherent to the language? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects.

We discuss an older forum post from a new Python user who came from Perl. We suggest checking out PEP 8, or as it’s commonly known, “The Style Guide for Python Code.” We provide advice about installing Python, avoiding common pitfalls, learning how scope is managed, and taking advantage of a collection of Real Python resources.

We share several other articles and projects from the Python community, including a new Python release, practical NumPy examples and exercises, considering targets of for loops, exploring Python dependency management, checking package compatibility with free-threading and subinterpreters, an experimental filesystem navigator in Textual, and a background workers reference implementation in Django.

This episode is sponsored by AssemblyAI.

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Topics:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:02:17 – Python 3.14.0 Alpha 2 Released
00:02:35 – Take the 2024 Django Developers Survey
00:03:17 – NumPy Practical Examples: Useful Techniques
00:07:09 – Loop Targets
00:09:19 – Python Dependency Management Is a Dumpster Fire
00:23:15 – Sponsor: AssemblyAI
00:24:00 – Package Compatibility With Free-Threading and Subinterpreters
00:27:02 – Suggestions for good programming practices?
00:37:59 – Video Course Spotlight
00:39:24 – terminal-tree: Experimental Filesystem Navigator in Textual
00:43:56 – django-tasks: Background Workers Reference Implementation
00:49:44 – Thanks and goodbye

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Suggestions for good programming practices?
Python Best Practices – Real Python
PEP 8 – Style Guide for Python Code

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terminal-tree: Experimental Filesystem Navigator in Textual
django-tasks: Background Workers Reference Implementation

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