A practical guide to building agents, 10 Free Data Science Books For 2025, Python 3.14.0 beta 1 is here and more

with some more interesting news, articles, packages and projects

Ashok Tankala

May 10, 2025

Python 3.14.0 beta 1 is here!

Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b1, is the first of four planned beta releases.

Ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust

Released a couple of days ago by Astral, it has already hot topic in many places and got a lot of GitHub Stars too.

Textualize, the company, will be wrapping up in the next few weeks

It’s sad news, but unfortunately, we need to accept.

Articles

10 Free Data Science Books For 2025

Looking to level up your data science skills? Cornellius Yudha Wijaya has shared an excellent list of free data science books in this article - perfect for expanding your knowledge without spending a dime.

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Python is an interpreted language with a compiler

We often hear Python is an interpreted language and Java is a compiled one. So, does that mean Python doesn’t use a compiler and Java doesn’t use an interpreter? Not really. In this article, Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya explained clearly. It might not answer everything, but it will help you better understand how programming languages really work or give you new questions to explore.

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Debugging Python f-string errors

We all love f-strings in Python. You might think f"{x}" is just the same as str(x) - and that's mostly true, but not completely. Behind the scenes, f"{x}" actually calls format(x, "") or type(x).__format__(x, ""). Brandon Chinn ran into a TypeError while using an f-string, which led him to investigate what was really going on. He shared what he discovered in this interesting blog post.

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14 Advanced Python Features

When someone asks about advanced Python features, most people mention generators, comprehensions, OOP or asyncio. But Python has a lot more to offer. In this article, Edward Li shared 14 unique, underrated advanced features - like typing overloads, protocols and more - each explained with clear examples.

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A practical guide to building agents

Thinking of creating your first agent? Check out this guide by OpenAI - it’s packed with practical tips and best practices. It also covers frameworks for designing agent logic and orchestration and how to ensure your agents run safely, predictably and effectively.

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Interesting Packages and Projects to Explore

Skulpt - It is a Javascript implementation of the Python programming language

Flower - Real-time monitor and web admin for Celery distributed task queue

DBOS - Ultra-lightweight durable execution in Python

Distlib - A low-level library which implements some Python packaging standards (PEPs) and which could be used by third-party packaging tools to achieve interoperability.

TkForge - Drag & drop in Figma to create a Python GUI with ease