What goes into managing a major project? What techniques can you employ for a project that’s in crisis? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week with another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects. We discuss an article by Ben Kuhn titled, “How I’ve Run Major Projects.” We dig into the skills required for project management, and provide advice for when projects fall into crisis. We cover how the field’s terminology has been updated. However, the time investment, sober communication, and planning still remain at the core of successful projects. We also share other articles and projects from the Python community, including recent releases and announcements, exploring an IDE for data science development, using Python set comprehensions, making friendly classes, using atexit for cleanup, a high-performance caching library for Python written in Rust, and a curated list of awesome marimo things. This episode is sponsored by PropelAuth. Video Course Spotlight: Using Data Classes in Python When using data classes, you don’t have to write boilerplate code to get proper initialization, representation, and comparisons for your objects. Topics: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:15 – Starlette 1.0 Released 00:03:08 – PyOhio 2026 Call for Proposals Now Open! 00:03:42 – Spyder: Your IDE for Data Science Development in Python 00:11:04 – Python Set Comprehensions: How and When to Use Them 00:14:40 – Sponsor: PropelAuth 00:15:17 – Making Friendly Classes 00:23:51 – How to Use atexit for Cleanup 00:25:49 – Video Course Spotlight 00:27:14 – How I’ve run major projects 00:47:47 – awesome-marimo: Curated List of Awesome Marimo Things 00:51:37 – moka-py: A high performance caching library for Python written in Rust 00:53:24 – Thanks and goodbye News: Starlette 1.0 Released PyOhio 2026 Call for Proposals Now Open! Show Links: Spyder: Your IDE for Data Science Development in Python – Learn how to use the Spyder IDE, a Python code editor built for scientists, engineers, and data analysts working with data-heavy workflows. Python Set Comprehensions: How and When to Use Them – In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to write set comprehensions in Python. You’ll also explore the most common use cases for set comprehensions and learn about some bad practices that you should avoid when using them in your code. Making Friendly Classes – What’s a friendly class? One that accepts sensible arguments, has a nice string representation, and supports equality checks. Read on to learn how to write them. How to Use atexit for Cleanup – Divakar recently came across Python’s atexit module and became curious about practical use cases in real-world applications. To explore it, he created a simple client-server app that uses a clean-up function. Discussion: How I’ve run major projects: benkuhn.net Projects: awesome-marimo: Curated L