🔥 Hot Discussions in r/Python

Sunday Daily Thread: What's everyone working on this week?

• 👍 Upvotes: 10
• 💬 Comments: 25
• 👤 Posted by: u/AutoModerator
• 📅 Posted on: 5/10/2026
• 🏷 Flair: :pythonLogo: Daily Thread

Monday Daily Thread: Project ideas!

• 👍 Upvotes: 3
• 💬 Comments: 0
• 👤 Posted by: u/AutoModerator
• 📅 Posted on: 5/18/2026
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Sunday Daily Thread: What's everyone working on this week?

• 👍 Upvotes: 5
• 💬 Comments: 14
• 👤 Posted by: u/AutoModerator
• 📅 Posted on: 5/17/2026
• 🏷 Flair: :pythonLogo: Daily Thread

Hica in comparison to Python

• 👍 Upvotes: 0
• 💬 Comments: 6
• 👤 Posted by: u/cladamski79
• 📅 Posted on: 5/17/2026
• 🏷 Flair: Discussion

Saturday Daily Thread: Resource Request and Sharing! Daily Thread

• 👍 Upvotes: 6
• 💬 Comments: 7
• 👤 Posted by: u/AutoModerator
• 📅 Posted on: 5/16/2026
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Turning a Python app into a real product feels harder than writing the code

• 👍 Upvotes: 0
• 💬 Comments: 44
• 👤 Posted by: u/Haunting-Shower1654
• 📅 Posted on: 5/16/2026
• 🏷 Flair: Discussion

Friday Daily Thread: r/Python Meta and Free-Talk Fridays

• 👍 Upvotes: 14
• 💬 Comments: 9
• 👤 Posted by: u/AutoModerator
• 📅 Posted on: 5/15/2026
• 🏷 Flair: :pythonLogo: Daily Thread

Polars code runs slower on 128-core EC2

• 👍 Upvotes: 44
• 💬 Comments: 64
• 👤 Posted by: u/Popular-Sand-3185
• 📅 Posted on: 5/14/2026
• 🏷 Flair: Discussion

[Ann] Pyrefly v1.0 (fast type checker & language server)

• 👍 Upvotes: 175
• 💬 Comments: 60
• 👤 Posted by: u/BeamMeUpBiscotti
• 📅 Posted on: 5/13/2026
• 🏷 Flair: News

Pyrefly v1.0.0 is here!

• 👍 Upvotes: 112
• 💬 Comments: 25
• 👤 Posted by: u/eszlari
• 📅 Posted on: 5/13/2026
• 🏷 Flair: News

Thursday Daily Thread: Python Careers, Courses, and Furthering Education!

• 👍 Upvotes: 6
• 💬 Comments: 2
• 👤 Posted by: u/AutoModerator
• 📅 Posted on: 5/14/2026
• 🏷 Flair: :pythonLogo: Daily Thread

What's behind the massive boto3 download spike on Python 3.9?

• 👍 Upvotes: 29
• 💬 Comments: 10
• 👤 Posted by: u/No_Square9822
• 📅 Posted on: 5/13/2026
• 🏷 Flair: Discussion

Python for Java developers

• 👍 Upvotes: 0
• 💬 Comments: 2
• 👤 Posted by: u/Horror-Willingness74
• 📅 Posted on: 5/13/2026
• 🏷 Flair: Tutorial

A production-focused Python guide for working with Binance REST/WebSocket APIs

• 👍 Upvotes: 0
• 💬 Comments: 3
• 👤 Posted by: u/oliver-zehentleitner
• 📅 Posted on: 5/13/2026
• 🏷 Flair: Tutorial

Looking to connect with fellow Python developers and make friends in the community

• 👍 Upvotes: 12
• 💬 Comments: 23
• 👤 Posted by: u/Gentleman-45
• 📅 Posted on: 5/12/2026
• 🏷 Flair: Discussion

I tested structured output from 288 LLM calls and logged every way JSON breaks. Here's what I found

• 👍 Upvotes: 35
• 💬 Comments: 51
• 👤 Posted by: u/kexxty
• 📅 Posted on: 5/11/2026
• 🏷 Flair: Discussion

Library dependency version specifiers aren't for fixing vulnerabilities

• 👍 Upvotes: 81
• 💬 Comments: 32
• 👤 Posted by: u/AlSweigart
• 📅 Posted on: 5/11/2026
• 🏷 Flair: Discussion

Tuesday Daily Thread: Advanced questions

• 👍 Upvotes: 8
• 💬 Comments: 7
• 👤 Posted by: u/AutoModerator
• 📅 Posted on: 5/12/2026
• 🏷 Flair: :pythonLogo: Daily Thread

[ Removed by Reddit ]

• 👍 Upvotes: 0
• 💬 Comments: 5
• 👤 Posted by: u/Fair-Kaleidoscope677
• 📅 Posted on: 5/12/2026
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Three packages copy-pasted my AGPL code to PyPI and named me in their description. PyPI won't act

• 👍 Upvotes: 217
• 💬 Comments: 46
• 👤 Posted by: u/Obvious_Gap_5768
• 📅 Posted on: 5/10/2026
• 🏷 Flair: Discussion

Monday Daily Thread: Project ideas!

• 👍 Upvotes: 6
• 💬 Comments: 5
• 👤 Posted by: u/AutoModerator
• 📅 Posted on: 5/11/2026
• 🏷 Flair: :pythonLogo: Daily Thread

Will python ever have a chaining operator?

• 👍 Upvotes: 64
• 💬 Comments: 122
• 👤 Posted by: u/Desperate_Cold6274
• 📅 Posted on: 5/10/2026
• 🏷 Flair: Discussion

Do you actually read the source code of libraries you install?

• 👍 Upvotes: 60
• 💬 Comments: 88
• 👤 Posted by: u/xander_abhishekh
• 📅 Posted on: 5/9/2026
• 🏷 Flair: Discussion

What is best modern DB layer for python, AI friendly, simple with raw SQL escape always available?

• 👍 Upvotes: 0
• 💬 Comments: 12
• 👤 Posted by: u/Varjoranta
• 📅 Posted on: 5/10/2026
• 🏷 Flair: Discussion

Best pool settings for SQLAlchemy on a Vercel deployment

• 👍 Upvotes: 2
• 💬 Comments: 11
• 👤 Posted by: u/carlinwasright
• 📅 Posted on: 5/9/2026
• 🏷 Flair: Discussion