Python This Week — July 6, 2026: PSF Elections, ChocoPoC Malware, and 3.15 Nears the Finish Line

This week in Python: PSF Board and inaugural Packaging Council elections kick off, the ChocoPoC RAT targets researchers via fake GitHub PoC repos, Python 3.15 nears its release candidate phase, and EuroPython and SciPy 2026 both start July 13.

Python's Built-In Database: A Practical Deep Dive into sqlite3

Learn how to use Python's built-in sqlite3 module like a pro: parameterized queries, transactions, Row factories, bulk inserts, WAL mode, and the pitfalls that trip up even experienced developers.

Python Exceptions Done Right: try/except, else, finally, and Custom Error Types

Exception handling separates robust Python programs from fragile scripts. A practical tour of try/except/else/finally, custom exception hierarchies, chaining, and the patterns that keep failures debuggable.

Running Shell Commands Safely: A Practical Deep Dive into Python's subprocess

Learn how to run external commands from Python the right way: subprocess.run() essentials, capturing output, handling errors and timeouts, streaming with Popen, building pipelines, and avoiding the shell=True injection trap.

Python 3.14.6 Released: What's in the Changelog

Python 3.14.6 (released June 10, 2026) is a maintenance update with nine security fixes — including patches for CVE-2026-45186 and the completion of CVE-2021-4189 — plus OpenSSL 3.5.7, pip 26.1.2, and numerous crash and free-threading fixes.

Parallelism Made Simple: A Practical Deep Dive into Python's concurrent.futures

Learn how to run work in parallel with Python's concurrent.futures — when to reach for threads vs. processes, how to use ThreadPoolExecutor and ProcessPoolExecutor, and how to handle results, exceptions, and timeouts cleanly.

Mastering Python's enum Module: Readable, Safe, and Self-Documenting Constants

Learn how to replace fragile magic numbers and string constants with Python's enum module — covering Enum, IntEnum, StrEnum, Flag, auto(), custom methods, aliases, the @unique decorator, and the pitfalls to avoid.

Dates, Times, and Time Zones in Python: A Practical Deep Dive into datetime and zoneinfo

Learn to handle dates and times correctly in Python: naive vs. aware datetimes, converting between time zones with the standard-library zoneinfo, parsing and formatting, safe arithmetic, and the DST pitfalls that bite real applications.

Mastering Python's re Module: A Practical Deep Dive into Regular Expressions

Learn Python's re module from the ground up: search vs. match, groups and named captures, substitution with functions, lookarounds, flags, and the pitfalls that trip up almost everyone.

Python Weekly — June 29, 2026: Python 3.15 Beta 3, Polars 1.42, and Fresh Maintenance Releases

A steady week in Python: 3.15 reaches beta 3 with its feature set locked, Polars ships 1.42.0, CPython 3.14.6 and 3.13.14 maintenance releases land, recent Django security fixes warrant upgrading, and EuroPython 2026 nears in Kraków.

Structural Pattern Matching in Python: A Practical Deep Dive into match/case

Go beyond switch statements. Learn how Python's match/case destructures sequences, mappings, and objects — with capture patterns, class patterns, guards, and the pitfalls that trip people up.

Pytest in Practice: Fixtures, Parametrization, and Mocking

Go beyond `assert` and learn pytest the way professionals use it: clean fixtures for setup and teardown, parametrization to kill duplicated tests, and monkeypatch/mock to isolate code from the network and filesystem.