Python Hub Weekly Digest for 2025-09-21
This week in Python, the video "10 Standard Library Modules That Make Python Insanely Powerful" gained popularity, showcasing overlooked Python standard library modules. The guide "Production-Grade Python Logging Made Easier with Loguru" simplifies the process of building a robust logging system. The open-source application "Ducky" and Python library "Starplot" were also highlighted. In articles, the focus was on scaling asyncio on Free-Threaded Python and fine-tuning large language models. Interesting projects included "XLeRobot", a practical dual-arm mobile home robot, and "Stelvio", simplifying AWS for Python developers. Have a great week and happy coding!
💖 Most Popular
10 Standard Library Modules That Make Python Insanely Powerful
The video highlights 10 powerful, sometimes overlooked Python standard library modules such as dataclasses for reducing boilerplate, pathlib for modern file path handling, functools for caching and functional utilities, and tomllib for parsing TOML configs. It showcases practical code examples illustrating how these modules can simplify development, improve performance, and reduce depend...
Production-Grade Python Logging Made Easier with Loguru
This guide will walk you through building a robust logging system with Loguru. We'll directly address the patterns and pain points of the standard logging module and show how Loguru simplifies them.
Ducky
An open-source, all-in-one desktop application for network engineers, students, and enthusiasts.
Python REPL Shortcuts & Features
Python 3.13 introduced a completely redesigned REPL with a much more modern feel. It's easy to overlook many of the features in the new Python REPL. Let's explore the various hidden features the new Python REPL supports, with a focus on tips that are useful for everyday usage.
Starplot
Starplot is a Python library for creating star charts and maps of the sky.
📖 Articles
IBM / mcp-context-forge
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) Gateway & Registry. Serves as a central management point for tools, resources, and prompts that can be accessed by MCP-compatible LLM applications. Converts REST API endpoints to MCP, composes virtual MCP servers with added security and observability, and converts between protocols (stdio, SSE, Streamable HTTP).
HunxByts / GhostTrack
Useful tool to track location or mobile number
Scaling asyncio on Free-Threaded Python
A recap on the work done in Python 3.14 to enable asyncio to scale on the free-threaded build of CPython.
Add Agents to your Web Applications with Pydantic AI and Django
The video demonstrates how to integrate Pydantic AI with Django to add agent-like features to web applications, allowing developers to enrich chatbots with app-specific context and tools such as real-time weather services and database interactions[attached file]. It showcases building customizable agents that can use dependencies, execute functions, and securely manipulate database recor...
Intro to Fine-Tuning Large Language Models
This course explores key techniques for adapting pre-trained LLMs to specialized tasks, including supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, and efficient QLoRA-based methods. It covers both theory and hands-on implementation, guiding viewers through practical steps to fine-tune and deploy massive language models using Python, PyTorch, and Hugging Face tools
Testing the compiler optimizations your code relies on
Sometimes you can trick the compiler into generating more efficient code. How can you test this optimization continues to be applied?
Python Hub Weekly Digest for 2025-09-14
PythonBPF – Writing eBPF Programs in Pure Python
HKUDS / DeepCode
"DeepCode: Open Agentic Coding (Paper2Code & Text2Web & Text2Backend)"
Pyproc – Call Python from Go Without CGO or Microservices
⚙️ Projects
XLeRobot
Practical Dual-Arm Mobile Home Robot for $660.
Stelvio
AWS for Python devs - made simple.
How to Build Python Code with Bazel (and Why)
The post details how Bazel can optimize building Python projects by managing dependencies accurately, avoiding unnecessary rebuilds, and supporting multi-language setups like adding Rust extensions. Bazel’s declarative build configurations enable efficient and consistent builds, improving CI turnaround times and scalability as projects grow[attached file].
spec-kit
Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development.
Newelle
Your Ultimate Virtual Assistant.
wall-x
Building General-Purpose Robots Based on Embodied Foundation Model.
👾 Reddits
🌊 PySurf v1.2.0 – Lightweight Python Browser
Stop building UI frameworks in Python
I decoupled FastAPI dependency injection system in pure python, no dependencies.
MathFlow: an easy-to-use math library for python
Project by Ruslan Keba. Since 2012. Powered by Python. Made in 🇺🇦Ukraine.