Agentic Architecture, Python is Weird, 3.15, and More

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As we approach the holiday seasons, we get to

So I've just released a package called lazy-helper. This comes as lazy loading has been a hot topic once again due to the proposal PEP-810. Using...

How does Python 3.14 perform under a few hand-crafted benchmarks? Does the performance of asyncio scale on the free-threaded build? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another…

Python 3.14 was officially released on October 7th. There are a lot of new features and I've covered some of them before in: Python 3.14: 3...

👋 Hi everyone, We are very exited to share with you PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports: We’re proposing an opt-in lazy import syntax that defers module loading until first use, aiming for faster startup,...

With a jam packed 3.14 release around the corner, it's also important to look at the smaller features coming to Python

Previously when discussing asyncio backpressure I've made some claims that were not necessarily complete. I said: It works well for 100s of urls...

Python 3.14 is just around the corner and it's jampacked with huge updates: Free threading and multiple interpreters? Template strings But as with...

If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of …

Previously I've played with tool calling in Langchain and Python sandboxes. But recently MCP (Model Context Protocol) is front and center. So I...

This one's hot off the press as the first beta for Python 3.14 (aka. π-thon) has hit. We're looking at a chunky release with a lot of new...

This PEP introduces template strings for custom string processing.

The post contains an embedded JupyterLite notebook containing a cookbook for SQLAlchemy. It focuses on the patterns you use in everyday ORM coding.

I've been a little obsessed with operator overloading lately. First using |= in sqlalchemy-builder and then using | and @ in better-functools. I...

Jamie has been doing the [Advent of Code](https://adventofcode.com/) and two techniques that come up a lot in Python are iteration and pattern matching. This post talks about how they don't work well together and what you can do about it.

I recently put some effort into creating better-functools. It's a package that adds some tooling for functional programming in Python. And allows...

This one has frustrated me for a while. It starts off with a REST API route. For example in fastAPI @app.get(

A collection of tools and libraries for GraphQL

Structural pattern matching is probably the coolest new syntax introduced to Python. Added in 3.10, it's been a few years now and more people are...

Free-threaded Python (PEP-703) was released in October 2024. It enables true multi-threaded execution without the restriction of the GIL. I...

I've been experimenting with Langchain for GPT based queries. One problem we often encounter with GPT is hallucinations. This makes certain...

I've worked with SQLAlchemy for a while now, and in my opinion it's the best ORM in Python. It's feature rich with strong support for all major...