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Explore fourteen advanced Python features: typing overloads and generics, context managers, metaclasses, and other tools to boost code safety, performance, and readability.

Python 3.14 will introduce template strings (t-strings) that produce Template objects enabling safe, flexible string interpolation to prevent injection issues.

Django 5.2 adds CompositePrimaryKey support for legacy or sharded databases, but new models should avoid composite keys in favor of surrogate keys and unique constraints.

Prepopulate Mastodon toots with event hashtags by creating share URLs and saving a GitHub Gist shortcut to your mobile home screen.

A very detailed overview of building a Dublin City Center Pub Finder app built using MongoDB's new Django Backend Python package, Voyage AI embeddings to best understand the queries, and LangChain to power the natural-language interface.