Do the design patterns learned in other programming languages translate to coding in Python? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects.

Christopher dives into an article that tackles popular object-oriented design patterns from the famous Gang of Four book. These patterns offer solutions to common coding problems, but as Christopher explores, Python often doesn’t even have the problems these solutions try to fix. He discusses several common design patterns and the simpler, more Pythonic ways to achieve the same goals.

We also share several other articles and projects from the Python community, including an exceptionally robust news roundup, running coverage on tests, an exploration of expert generalists, a preview of template strings from Python 3.14, a quiz on f-strings, and a project that calculates the complexity of your Python code.

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