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Python Hub Weekly Digest for 2025-10-26 https://pythonhub.dev/digest/2025-10-26/

TOML is great, and after diving deep into designing a config format, here's why I think that's true https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1o8ors4/toml_is_great_and_after_diving_deep_into/

PyreFly: Python type checker and language server in Rust https://pyrefly.org/?featured_on=talkpython

django-http-compression Django middleware for compressing HTTP responses with Zstandard, Brotli, or Gzip. https://github.com/adamchainz/django-http-compression

Best way to set up Python for Windows these days https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/1o535ff/best_way_to_set_up_python_for_windows_these_days/

Paper2Video Automatic Video Generation from Scientific Papers. https://github.com/showlab/Paper2Video

Practical MCP with FastMCP & Python Tutorial – IO, HTTP Streams, APIs, and Testing The video teaches how to build MCP servers using the FastMCP Python library. It covers MCP basics, building calculator apps with different communication protocols, integrating APIs for dynamic content, testing with GitHub Copilot, and deploying MCP servers on FastMCP Cloud for a complete development workflow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DosHnyq78xY

google-agentic-commerce / AP2 Building a Secure and Interoperable Future for AI-Driven Payments. https://github.com/google-agentic-commerce/AP2

Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification The lock file specification for Python, finalized in PEP 751, took more than four years to complete because of the complexity of capturing dependencies across platforms and configurations while maintaining security, readability, and compatibility with different tools. The process required balancing diverse ecosystem needs, resolving dependency graphs, and achieving consensus among major ... https://snarky.ca/why-it-took-4-years-to-get-a-lock-files-specification/

Advice on logging libraries: Logfire, Loguru, or just Python's built-in logging? https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1o4uyrv/advice_on_logging_libraries_logfire_loguru_or/

ChatGPT Apps SDK: Your first MCP Server with Python, FastMCP, & FastAPI The talk explains how to build an MCP server that integrates with ChatGPT using FastMCP and FastAPI. It covers setting up the Python environment, creating and running MCP tools (like a simple add function), and connecting the MCP server to ChatGPT through a public tunnel to enable ChatGPT to call custom functions, enhancing its capabilities with personalized context and tools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAxA-7ZSn-0

Using Async Functions in Celery with Django Connection Pooling The blog post explains how Celery, which currently does not support native async functions, can still integrate asynchronous Python code by using the asynctosync utility from asgiref to run async functions synchronously within Celery tasks. It also discusses alternative approaches, such as using a dedicated event loop to run async code inside Celery tasks, and mentions that full async ... https://mrdonbrown.blogspot.com/2025/10/using-async-functions-in-celery-with.html

remoclip A CLI tool for accessing your local clipboard from remote systems. https://remoclip.newmatter.net

What’s new in Python 3.15 This article explains the new features in Python 3.15, compared to 3.14. https://docs.python.org/3.15/whatsnew/3.15.html

Autoswagger A command-line tool designed to discover, parse, and test for unauthenticated endpoints using Swagger/OpenAPI documentation. It helps identify potential security issues in unprotected endpoints of APIs, such as PII leaks and common secret exposures. https://github.com/intruder-io/autoswagger

EdgeAI for Beginners This course is designed to guide beginners through the exciting world of Edge AI, covering fundamental concepts, popular models, inference techniques, device-specific applications, model optimization, and the development of intelligent Edge AI agents. https://github.com/microsoft/edgeai-for-beginners

Cronboard A terminal-based dashboard for managing cron jobs. https://github.com/antoniorodr/Cronboard

Killing the GIL: How To Use Python 3.14's Free-Threading Upgrade The global interpreter lock (GIL) has been interfering with true parallelism in Python. That ends with Python 3.14. https://www.neelsomaniblog.com/p/killing-the-gil-how-to-use-python

TorchCurves - differentiable parametric curves in PyTorch PyTorch parametric curves spanned by B-Splines or Legendre polynomials for KANs, Embeddings, or PDE solvers. https://github.com/alexshtf/torchcurves

Handy Python REPL Modifications The article describes custom modifications to the Python REPL to make it behave more like a favorite editor, including adding new keyboard shortcuts for code navigation, editing, and inserting example data structures. These changes, enabled through a PYTHONSTARTUP file and packaged in a library called pyrepl-hacks, enhance productivity by allowing quicker code writing and editing with si... https://treyhunner.com/2025/10/handy-python-repl-modifications/