https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/ Recent content in Python on Manvendra Rajpoot https://blog.rajpoot.dev/img/personal/cover.png https://blog.rajpoot.dev/img/personal/cover.png Hugo en Manvendra Rajpoot https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-data-pipelines-2026/ Tue, 05 May 2026 07:40:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-data-pipelines-2026/ Python data pipelines in 2026 — Polars, DuckDB, Ibis, and the stack that's faster than pandas without leaving Python. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-3-13-features-2026/ Mon, 04 May 2026 07:40:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-3-13-features-2026/ Python 3.13 in 2026 — free-threaded mode, JIT, REPL improvements, and what's actually useful in production. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/uv-deep-dive-2026/ Mon, 04 May 2026 07:30:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/uv-deep-dive-2026/ uv in 2026 — full-feature Python tooling, performance, project workflow, lockfiles, scripts, and migration from poetry / pip. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-profiling-2026/ Sun, 03 May 2026 07:50:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-profiling-2026/ Python profiling in 2026 — py-spy for production sampling, scalene for CPU+GPU+memory, memray for memory, and the workflow for finding hot spots. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-logging-2026/ Sat, 02 May 2026 11:50:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-logging-2026/ Python logging done right in 2026 — structlog, JSON output, contextvars, correlation IDs, and the patterns from production apps. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-packaging-2026/ Sat, 02 May 2026 10:40:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-packaging-2026/ Modern Python packaging in 2026 — uv, hatch, pyproject.toml standards, building wheels, publishing to PyPI, and the workflow that doesn't fight you. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-async-patterns-2026/ Sat, 02 May 2026 09:10:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-async-patterns-2026/ Modern Python async patterns in 2026 — TaskGroup, asyncio.timeout, structured concurrency, anyio, and the patterns that don't leak tasks. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-data-validation-2026/ Fri, 01 May 2026 06:10:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-data-validation-2026/ Python data validation in 2026 — Pydantic v2 vs msgspec vs attrs. 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Patterns, retries, scheduling, and how to pick. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/asyncio-patterns-taskgroup-anyio-2026/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:10:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/asyncio-patterns-taskgroup-anyio-2026/ Modern asyncio patterns in Python 3.11+ — TaskGroup, structured concurrency, exception groups, anyio for portable async, and the patterns that survived the asyncio API churn. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/modern-python-tooling-uv-ruff-2026/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/modern-python-tooling-uv-ruff-2026/ The modern Python toolchain has converged in 2026 — uv for packaging, Ruff for lint+format, ty for type-checking. A practical setup that's 10–100× faster than what you used in 2023. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/celery-background-tasks-explained/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:55:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/celery-background-tasks-explained/ How to use Celery properly — brokers, workers, retries, idempotency, scheduling, and the patterns that don't bite you in production. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/flask-quickstart-and-when-to-pick-it/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:50:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/flask-quickstart-and-when-to-pick-it/ A pragmatic Flask tutorial — set up a real app, blueprints, extensions, blueprints, and an honest take on when to still pick Flask in 2026 vs. FastAPI or Django. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-decorators-explained/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:20:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-decorators-explained/ Python decorators demystified — what they actually are, how to write your own, and the patterns you'll see in real codebases. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/async-await-explained/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:10:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/async-await-explained/ The mental model that makes Python's async/await actually click — what it is, what it isn't, when to use it, and the mistakes that quietly ruin async code. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-virtual-environments/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-virtual-environments/ A practical comparison of uv, venv, and Poetry — what each one is great at, when to pick which, and how the Python packaging story actually works in 2026. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/modern-python-tips/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/modern-python-tips/ Practical, modern Python tips drawn from real-world projects — type hints, dataclasses, pathlib, comprehensions, the walrus operator, and more.