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- Advanced, Overlooked Python Typing
- codespell
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Brian #1: Advent of Code starts today
- A few changes, like 12 days this year, which honestly, I’m grateful for.
- See also: elf: Advent of Code CLI helper for Python
Michael #2: Django 6 is coming
- Expected December 2025
- Django 6.0 supports Python 3.12, 3.13, and 3.14
- Built-in support for the Content Security Policy (CSP) standard is now available, making it easier to protect web applications against content injection attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS).
- The Django Template Language now supports template partials, making it easier to encapsulate and reuse small named fragments within a template file.
- Django now includes a built-in Tasks framework for running code outside the HTTP request–response cycle. This enables offloading work, such as sending emails or processing data, to background workers.
- Email handling in Django now uses Python’s modern email API, introduced in Python 3.6. This API, centered around the <code>email.message.EmailMessage</code> class
Brian #3: Advanced, Overlooked Python Typing
- get_args, TypeGuard, TypeIs, and more goodies
Michael #4: codespell
- Learned from this PR for the Talk Python book.
- Fix common misspellings in text files.
- It's designed primarily for checking misspelled words in source code (backslash escapes are skipped), but it can be used with other files as well.
- It does not check for word membership in a complete dictionary, but inste
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