In this video course, you'll learn how to define multiple return types using type hints in Python. This course covers working with single or multiple pieces of data, defining type aliases, and performing type checking using a third-party static type checker tool ..read more

In this tutorial, you'll learn what syntactic sugar is and how Python uses it to help you create more readable, descriptive, clean, and Pythonic code. You'll also learn how to replace a given piece of syntactic sugar with another syntax construct ..read more

In this quiz, you'll test your understanding of Python thread safety. You'll revisit the concepts of race conditions, locks, and other synchronization primitives in the threading module. By working through this quiz, you'll reinforce your knowledge about how to make your Python code thread-safe ..read more

Python 3.13 is here! Our regular guests, Geir Arne Hjelle and Christopher Trudeau, return to discuss the new version. This year, Geir Arne coordinated a series of preview articles with members of the Real Python team and a showcase tutorial, "Python 3.13: Cool New Features for You to Try." Christopher's video course "What's New in Python 3.13" covers the topics from the article and shows the new features in action ..read more

In this quiz, you'll test your understanding of structural pattern matching in Python. This powerful control flow construct, introduced in Python 3.10, offers concise and readable syntax while promoting a declarative code style ..read more

In this tutorial, you'll be guided step by step through the process of building a basic contact book application. You'll use Python and Textual to build the application's text-based user interface (TUI), and then use SQLite to manage the database ..read more

In this quiz, you'll test your understanding of Python closures. Closures are a common feature in functional programming languages and are particularly popular in Python because they allow you to create function-based decorators ..read more

This month, Python 3.13 is being released. The new release brings exciting features like a new REPL and a version of Python without the global interpreter lock (GIL). In the community, DjangoCon US just wrapped up after a week of interesting tutorials and talks ..read more

In this quiz, you'll test your understanding of Python's iterators and iterables. By working through this quiz, you'll revisit how to create and work with iterators and iterables, the differences between them, and review how to use generator functions ..read more

In this quiz, you'll test your understanding of Python's import statement and how it works. You'll revisit your understanding of how to use modules and how to import modules dynamically at runtime ..read more