Python is bursting with updates and innovations worthy of your attention. This week’s report highlights some of the best of them, with handy guides to get you started.
Get a first look at the new Python Installation Manager for Windows, or try your hand at developing AI agents with Google’s Agent Development Kit for Python, or check out template strings in Python 3.14. Would you rather debate virtual threads in Python, or catch up on the May 2025 Python Language Summit? We’ve got that, too. It’s all here (and more) in this week’s Python Report.
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Get started with the new Python Installation Manager
At last, we have a native Python tool for installing, removing, and upgrading editions of the language in Microsoft Windows! It’s still in beta, but Python Installation Manager is set to replace py before long. Why not give it a spin now?
How to deploy AI agents with the Google Agent Development Kit for Python
Google’s newly released toolkit for Python (and Java) eases you into writing complex, multi-step AI agents. And it doesn’t matter whether you’re using Google’s AI or someone else’s.
Python 3.14’s new template string feature
Once upon a time, there were f-strings for formatting variables in Python, and they were good … mostly. Now Python 3.14 introduces t-strings, or “template strings,” for a range of variable-formatting superpowers that f-strings can’t match.
How to use Marimo, a better Jupyter-like notebook system for Python
Jupyter Notebooks may be a familiar and powerful tool for data science, but its shortcomings can be irksome. Marimo offers a Jupyter-like experience, but it’s more convenient, interactive, and deployable.
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NumPy 2.3 adds OpenMP support
Everyone’s favorite Python matrix math library now supports OpenMP parallelization, although you’ll have to compile NumPy with the -Denable_openmp=true flag to use it. This is the first of many more future changes to NumPy adding support for free-threaded Python.
Pyfuze: Package Python apps into single executables
This clever project uses uv to conveniently deliver Python apps with all their dependencies included in a single redistributable package. You can even download and install the needed bits at setup time for a smaller initial package.
Does Python need virtual threads?
Python’s core developers are deciding now whether to add this Java-esque threading feature to Python. Do we need yet another concurrency feature on top of regular threads, async, multiprocessing, and subinterpreters in Python? You decide.
The Python Language Summit 2025
When Python’s best and brightest gathered in Pittsburgh this past May, they spoke of many things. This collection of blog posts offers a recap of topics such as fearless concurrency, the state of free-threaded Python, Python on mobile devices, and more.
