What's up Python? Astral never stops, JetBrains gives us insights

A roundup of August 2025 Python news covering two major topics: Astral's latest moves with uv 0.8 (now a general-purpose Python installer with Windows registry support and Docker improvements) and the launch of pyx, their commercial SaaS for solving Python packaging at scale. Also covers the JetBrains 2024 Python Developer Survey results, highlighting that 50% of respondents have under 2 years of experience, FastAPI has overtaken Django and Flask in popularity, pandas dominates data science at 80%, VSCode leads editors at 49%, and uv is still only at 11% adoption despite its hype. Additional items include PEP 802 proposing new empty set notation, PyPI security improvements, a new profiling stdlib module, and Google sunsetting pytype.