Python recap for week 16/2025

From 14/4/2025 to 20/4/2025

Articles #

• Python's New T-Strings 449 comments in 3 discussions

• 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python 155 comments in 1 discussion

• A New ASN.1 API for Python 113 comments in 1 discussion

• Notes running Python in production 110 comments in 2 discussions

• Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 109 comments in 3 discussions

• Mypy – an optional static type checker for Python 82 comments in 4 discussions

• Frankenstein’s `__init__` 79 comments in 2 discussions

• MCP Run Python 65 comments in 1 discussion

• Haskelling My Python 62 comments in 2 discussions

• Need to understand Django's `__date` Lookup and Time Zone Conversions: Potential Pitfalls 58 comments in 11 discussions

• Stop Writing `__init__` Methods 47 comments in 3 discussions

• Tic-Tac-Toe AI in a single line of code 31 comments in 1 discussion

• falsify: Hypothesis-inspired shrinking for Haskell 30 comments in 3 discussions

• Tariff: A Python package that imposes tariffs on Python imports 29 comments in 1 discussion

• Python is an interpreted language with a compiler 26 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Make Python great again! 83 comments in 2 discussions

• Built db2vec in Rust (2nd project, 58 days in) because Python was too slow for embedding millions of records from DB dumps. 11 comments in 1 discussion

• [P] I built a Docker Container for Computer-Use AI Agents in Python. 10 comments in 2 discussions

• A simple app that lets you visualise and analyse pip packages installed on your system 10 comments in 1 discussion

• My First Big AI Project in C# & ONNX - Blown away by performance vs Python (Live2D + LLM + TTS/ASR) 7 comments in 1 discussion

• convert-markdown - Package for converting markdown to polished PDF, HTML or PPT report (with charts) 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Announcing Traeger: A portable Actor System for C++ and Python 6 comments in 2 discussions

• Python Script to download Mails over IMAP 5 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: I made Python project template so you don't need to spend hours on it 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Machine Learning project pipeline - Python 3 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Every Python Decorator Explained 15 comments in 1 discussion

• Multiprocessing & Threading Guide In Python 6 comments in 2 discussions

• The Complete Flask Rest Api Python Guide 2 comments in 1 discussion

• ChatGPT used to build assistive software for Leukodystrophy [video] 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Build TikTok's Personalized Real-Time Recommender in Python [video]

• Dlang versus Python (Matrix Multiply) [video]

• I made a YouTube video creator with Python (moviePy, requests, Pandas, and more)