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PyCon Italia 2026

Hugo van Kemenade (3)

🇧🇪🇩🇪🇮🇹 All booked for Brussels, Berlin and Bologna!

Anyone else off to @fosdem, @FOSSBackstage or @pycon Italia?

(Also going to skip PyCon US this year, already decided before the latest.)

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I gave a lightning talk at a bunch of conferences in 2025 about some of the exciting new things coming in Python 3.14, including template strings.

One thing we can use t-strings for is to prevent SQL injection. I illustrated this with xkcd 327 aka “Little Bobby Tables”.

I localised most of the slides for the PyCon I was at, including this comic. Here they are!

hugovk.dev/blog/2026/localisin

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At , @cheukting_ho is telling us about free-threaded . Since the screenshot was taken, we're now up to 208 / 360 of the top PyPI packages ready for free threading! 🚀🧵
hugovk.dev/free-threaded-wheel

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