#757 – OCTOBER 20, 2026 View in Browser » Django ORM, Migrations and makemigrations This tutorial builds a small coffee and tea store one migration at a time, then breaks it on purpose. You’ll backfill a required field, roll a migration back, untangle two developers’ migrations and fix a slow page with Django 6.1’s new fetch modes. MY-SPACE.IO • Shared by Mirza Ishraq Yeahia Functional Programming in Python: When and How to Use It See how Python supports functional programming, what the paradigm actually is, and where it fits in the code you write day to day. REAL PYTHON MCP Auth That Passes the Security Review When your customers connect AI agents to your product, their security team will have questions. PropelAuth has the answers built in: role-gated scopes, enterprise SSO through Okta and Entra ID, phishing-resistant consent screens, and an audit log of every agent connection. Learn More → PROPELAUTH sponsor Exploring the MVC Pattern in Python Learn how the Model-View-Controller pattern organizes Python web apps, then build a small Flask app using models, views, and controllers. REAL PYTHON course Quiz: Exploring the MVC Pattern in Python REAL PYTHON Python 3.16.0 Alpha 1 Is Now Available PYTHON.ORG Python Bytes Podcast Hits Episode 500! PYTHON BYTES PyPy v8.0.1 Release PYPY.ORG Claude Code Course: Stop Copy-Pasting From ChatGPT Build a complete Python CLI app from an empty directory with Claude Code, in two live 4-hour sessions on October 24–25. You’ll plan features, run tests, manage git, and debug AI-generated code. REAL PYTHON Articles & Tutorials PyTorch Year in Review: OpenTeams’ Contributions in 2026 OpenTeams’ PyTorch team reviews their 2026 contributions, in a year when PyTorch received 58% more pull requests than the same period of 2025, a growing share of them written with AI coding agents. Highlights include a redesign of the symbolic interpreter in torch.compile, day 1 compiler support for Python 3.15, a new operator, and a build backend re-write! ANDREW JAMES • Shared by Andrew James Bayesian Optimization for Efficient Hyperparameter Search Instead of testing every hyperparameter combination, Bayesian optimization uses results from earlier trials to decide what to try next. This hands-on tutorial builds it step by step with scikit-learn’s GaussianProcessRegressor and a custom Expected Improvement function, plotting the model’s predictions and uncertainty along with each point the search picks. KHUYEN TRAN • Shared by Khuyen Tran Pendulum and the Most Cursed + Operator in All of Python Pendulum, a popular Python datetime library, has a + operator that inspects the call stack to decide which answer to give you. The post explains how it ended up there, and why the design behind it, a “drop-in” subclass of datetime, still matters for your code now that the hack itself has been patched. ARIE BOVENBERG • Shared by Arie Bovenberg Checking Email Reputation, and Allowing Outlook Again Two years ago, PyPI prohibited Outlook email domains in the registration of new accounts due to a large malware campaign. With an update to how email reputation is calculated, addresses from outlook.com and hotmail.com can once more be used. MIKE FIEDLER Why Parquet Dominates Modern Data Engineering How Parquet’s columnar layout, encodings, zstd compression, and row group statistics make it smaller and faster to read than CSV, measured on NYC taxi trips data with Polars, DuckDB, and PyArrow. 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