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News & links about Python programming. https://pythonhub.dev/ Administrator: @rukeba
Python Hub Weekly Digest for 2026-10-18
https://pythonhub.dev/digest/2026-10-18/
My Python magic is gone
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1wwv97o/my_python_magic_is_gone/
pytorch / pytorch
Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration
https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch
TurboPython
A Python-to-C++ compiler. Typed Python to native binaries with no Python runtime, no GC, no GIL.
https://tpy-lang.org/
Rust for CPython (Python Language Summit 2026)
CPython developers are exploring a gradual introduction of Rust, starting with an optional Rust implementation of zlib in Python 3.16 before considering broader use in areas like I/O, JSON, parsing, and memoryview. The proposal aims to improve safety and performance without rewriting CPython, while addressing concerns around platform support, dependencies, build complexity, and whether c...
https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-rust-for-cpython/
Polars 2.0
Polars 2.0 introduces initial out-of-core spill-to-disk support, major performance improvements, first-class SQL, a new Map dtype, and stricter dtype handling. With the SQL and performance work, Polars reports leading DataFusion and DuckDB on TPC-H and TPC-DS benchmarks.
https://pola.rs/posts/release-polars-2/
Making a mathematical model for better Indic keyboards
The article develops a mathematical model for more efficient Indic touchscreen keyboards, starting with Tamil and mapping script structure into Boolean logic and compact input states. It uses Python with SymPy to derive and simplify the logic, then implements the resulting input engine in TypeScript.
https://triangulatedexistence.mataroa.blog/blog/making-a-mathematical-model-for-better-indic-keyboards/
Django: serve apple-app-site-association and assetlinks.json
Django can serve the apple-app-site-association and assetlinks.json files needed for Apple Universal Links and Android App Links, letting installed apps securely claim website URLs and support password autofill and passkeys. The post walks through the required JSON, Django views, tests, caching, and production verification with Apple’s CDN and Google’s Digital Asset Links tools.
https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/10/02/django-app-links/
openTPU
An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI: RTL, ISA, simulator, compiler and profiler in one repo. Runs Qwen3, LFM2.5 and Qwen3.5 on a Kintex-7 PCIe card.
https://github.com/FeSens/openTPU
Python 3.15.0
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3150/
How we built an async-aware Python profiler
Learn how Datadog made Python profiling async-aware while reducing profiler overhead and preserving context across asyncio tasks.
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/async-python-profiler/
Pyronaut
Pyronaut is a high-performance polyglot application platform that brings Micronaut features like HTTP routing, dependency injection, configuration, validation, and Java library access to Python via GraalPy.
https://github.com/micronaut-projects/pyronaut
apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper
https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw
The things you own end up owning you
NumPy is being ported toward Python’s Limited API so it could eventually ship abi3 wheels that work across multiple Python versions, reducing the large per-version wheel matrix and easing support for new Python releases. The same work is also pushing NumPy toward subinterpreter support by replacing static types and global state with heap types and per-module state, though multiarray rema...
https://labs.quansight.org/blog/limited_api_numpy
ldraw-nova
Agent tooling for generative LEGO models building, built with Astra and Opus 5.5, powered by Jev
https://github.com/anteloc/ldraw-nova
RuleFlow
A Python research framework and terminal-based IDE (RuleFlow Studio) for modeling, evolving, and analyzing discrete complex systems like ECA and SSS.
https://github.com/RuleFlow-OSS/RuleFlow
What are some features in Python that you discovered many years later?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1x3vy20/what_are_some_features_in_python_that_you/
WagtailRocket
A boilerplate for CMS websites developed in Wagtail to save you tens of hours of work.
https://github.com/AlexBrence/WagtailRocket
clausal-prolog
Clausal Prolog is a Python implementation of Prolog for neurosymbolic AI, combining symbolic reasoning with Python and neural models in the same process without a separate runtime.
https://github.com/neurosymbolica/clausal-prolog
ai-agents-zero-to-hero
Learn AI agents from first principles to production. Zero mandatory dependencies, pure standard Python 3.11+, and no magic frameworks.
https://github.com/tradertanmay/ai-agents-zero-to-hero
Build Your Own Agentic Harness in Python - Full Tutorial
This tutorial demonstrates how to build a custom AI agentic harness in pure Python by progressively integrating LLM communication, tool calling, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. It covers the full development loop from scratch, enabling persistent memory and model routing to create functional, autonomous agents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5o1P8RMiMw
Pixora
A Python Library for Pixel Art Conversion.
https://github.com/sepandhaghighi/pixora
How to Take a Website Screenshot with Python
Vendor-authored Site-Shot tutorial: Python SDK, CSV batch captures, and a local HTML index. Requires a paid Site-Shot API plan.
https://www.site-shot.com/blog/take-website-screenshot-with-python/
Jev for Python engineers
Vercel’s Python AI SDK adds support for Jev, a fast universal classifier that answers structured choice, scoring, and probability questions without task-specific training. The post tests Jev on classifying Python vs. English and generating Python ASTs, showing that it works well for narrow decisions but still struggles when pushed into general code generation.
https://vercel.com/blog/jev-for-python-engineers
8 Python 3.15 Features You Need to Know
Python 3.15 introduces practical enhancements such as lazy imports, a built-in immutable dictionary, and streamlined unpacking in comprehensions. These updates, alongside a new sampling profiler and default UTF-8 encoding, aim to improve developer productivity and application performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgeqL4Btou0
Can Jev save my inbox from the Democrats?
The author outlines an end-to-end ML project evaluating whether TypeSafe’s Jev, accessed through OpenRouter, and smaller local models can effectively filter political fundraising emails from a personal inbox. He ultimately builds a 23.4 MB quantized ONNX SetFit model using mdbr-leaf-mt and confidence thresholding, creating a fast, CPU-friendly local classifier while exposing the remainin...
https://huggingface.co/blog/stephen-solka/use-jev-to-delete-fundraising-emails
rGPU
Keep Python on your laptop. Run PyTorch operations and hold tensors on a remote GPU, including from a Mac with no CUDA installation.
https://github.com/ymcrcat/rgpu
Build & Train a GLM-5.3-Flash Model From Scratch with Python
This tutorial demonstrates how to build and train a compact 25-million parameter multimodal language model from scratch using modern techniques like mixture-of-experts and sparse attention. It further explores the AI researcher's role by guiding viewers through pre-training, reinforcement learning experiments, and the critical importance of designing effective data-driven environments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfgQfw2g_E
Orchestrating Disposable Browser
Glazer replaced race-prone parallel startup with readiness signals between Python and Docker containers, allowing components to start concurrently without assuming that running means ready. That design cut cold starts from 8–10 seconds to about 4.5 seconds, and caching the Tor data directory brought startup down to a consistent 1.9–2.1 seconds.
https://blog.glazer.ee/posts/building-glazer-disposable-browser/
AI Development on Windows: from PyTorch and llama.cpp to Windows ML
Microsoft is expanding local AI development on Windows with experimental GGUF support in Windows ML via llama.cpp, new native inference APIs, and an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for running models locally. The broader stack also adds native PyTorch and Triton support on Windows Arm64, giving developers a path to train and optimize models with familiar tools and deploy them through Windows ...
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry-on-windows/build-on-winml-oct-7-26/