Episode Details

How do you learn the terms commonly used when speaking about Python? How is the jargon similar to other programming languages? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects.

We discuss a Python glossary recently created by Trey Hunner. Trey describes it as an unofficial glossary and Python jargon file. We dig into the terms and colloquial language often used when describing Python.

We cover a blog post celebrating 31 years of Python by compiling Python 1.0. The piece walks through the hoops of finding the source code and standing up an old version of Debian. Once compiled, they open the REPL and find it surprisingly capable.

We also share several other articles and projects from the Python community, including release news, a Python enhancement proposal roundup, managing Django’s queue, a course about NumPy techniques including practical examples, getting platform-specific directories, detecting which shell is in use, and a project for sorted container types.

This episode is sponsored by Postman.

Topics:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction
• 00:02:42 – Python Release 3.14.0a5
• 00:02:54 – PyPy v7.3.18 Released
• 00:03:32 – Beautifulsoup 4.13 Released
• 00:04:13 – PEP 759: External Wheel Hosting (Withdrawn)
• 00:04:54 – PEP 2026: Calendar Versioning for Python (Rejected)
• 00:06:48 – PEP 739: Static Description File for Build Details (Accepted)
• 00:07:51 – PEP 765: Disallow Return/Break/Continue That Exit a Finally Block (Accepted)
• 00:09:01 – Python Terminology: An Unofficial Glossary
• 00:19:32 – Sponsor: Postman
• 00:20:28 – NumPy Techniques and Practical Examples
• 00:24:12 – Let’s Compile Python 1.0
• 00:28:55 – Video Course Spotlight
• 00:30:14 – Managing Django’s Queue
• 00:36:41 – platformdirs: Get Platform-Specific Dirs
• 00:39:57 – shellingham: Tool to Detect Surrounding Shell
• 00:41:02 – python-sortedcontainers: Python Sorted Container Type
• 00:41:58 – Thanks and goodbye

News:

• Python Release 3.14.0a5
• PyPy v7.3.18 Released
• Beautifulsoup 4.13 Released
• PEP 759: External Wheel Hosting (Withdrawn)
• PEP 2026: Calendar Versioning for Python (Rejected)
• PEP 739: Static Description File for Build Details (Accepted)
• PEP 765: Disallow Return/Break/Continue That Exit a Finally Block (Accepted)

Topics:

• Python Terminology: An Unofficial Glossary – “Definitions for colloquial Python terminology (effectively an unofficial version of the Python glossary).”
• NumPy Techniques and Practical Examples – In this video course, you’ll learn how to use NumPy by exploring several interesting examples. You’ll read data from a file into an array and analyze structur