Several of this week’s top stories touch on the pitfalls of open source development, especially when things like power, money, and ego are involved. Also, a look at Python’s nifty new sampling profiler, and a play-by-play account of using Qwen3.5 on a Python project.

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A curated weekly roundup of Python news covering OpenAI's acquisition of Astral (makers of uv, ty, and pyx), a hands-on look at Python 3.15's new built-in sampling profiler, a local LLM experiment using Qwen3.5 on a Python project, Project Detroit's effort to bridge Java/Python/JavaScript runtimes, the collapse of MkDocs due to maintainer drama, a comparison of Python type-checker spec conformance, Python performance optimization strategies, and open source licensing questions raised by LLM-assisted rewrites.

On the pleasures and dangers of open source Python