On March 19, OpenAI announced that it would acquire Astral, the company behind uv, Ruff, and ty. The Astral team, led by founder Charlie Marsh, will join OpenAI’s Codex team. The deal is subject to Read more…
Textual is a great Python user interface package. Textual lets you create a GUI-like interface in your terminal. You can use many different widgets in Textual. However, the widget you will be focusing on in Read more…
Last week marked the fruition of almost a year of hard work by the entire PyCharm team. On March 4th, 2026, we hosted Python Unplugged on PyTV, our first-ever community conference featuring a 90s music-inspired Read more…
Cursor is now available as an AI agent inside JetBrains IDEs through the Agent Client Protocol. Select it from the agent picker, and it has full access to your project. If you’ve spent any time Read more…
If you’ve read the blog post How to Build Chatbots With LangChain, you may want to know more about LangChain. This blog post will dive deeper into what LangChain offers and guide you through a Read more…
The PyCharm team loves being part of the global Python community. From PyCon US to EuroPython to every PyCon in between, we enjoy the atmosphere at conferences, as well as meeting people who are as Read more…
Python has had type hinting support since Python 3.5, over TEN years ago! However, Python’s type annotations have changed repeatedly over the years. In Python Typing: Type Checking for Python Programmers, you will learn all you Read more…
PyCharm is designed to support the full range of modern Python workflows, from web development to data and ML/AI work, in a single IDE. An essential part of these workflows is Jupyter notebooks, which are Read more…
My latest book, Vibe Coding Video Games with Python, is now available as an eBook. The paperback will be coming soon, hopefully by mid-February at the latest. The book is around 183 pages in length and is Read more…
Decorators are a concept that can trip up new Python users. You may find this definition helpful: A decorator is a function that takes in another function and adds new functionality to it without modifying Read more…