The annual 10-day competition is held to raise awareness of the Burmese python, an invasive snake, and the damage it has inflicted on the Everglades.

This week in Python brings us a toe-to-toe showdown between two Rust-powered Python type checking tools. We also have a gentle introduction to type hinting, a look at the perils—and promises ...

Pyrefly from Meta and Ty from Astral offer type-checking for Python codebases at the speed of Rust.

Eventual's data processing engine Daft was inspried by the founders' experience working on Lyft's autonomous vehicle project.