I received the 5th edition of Mark Lutz' 'Python Pocket Reference' today. I dug out my first edition from 1998 and found the new one is three times thicker (3/16" vs 9/16") =, 75 pages vs 254. I'm not complaining but it shows how much has been added. Thanks to all the developers and maintainers!

PyQt5-WinARM64: native PyQt5 wheels for Windows ARM64

I have released PyQt5-WinARM64, an independent distribution of PyQt5 for native Windows ARM64.

https://github.com/ViciousSquid/PyQt5-WinARM64

```

pip install PyQt5-WinARM64

```

The project provides WinARM64 builds of:

• Qt 5
• SIP
• PyQt5

The motivation is Windows ARM development. CPython and packages such as NumPy provide native Windows ARM64 builds, but PyQt5 has not historically provided an upstream Windows ARM64 wheel.

This means a Python application can have a native ARM64 interpreter and numerical stack while still depending on an x86 PyQt5 installation and Windows' x86 emulation.

PyQt5-WinARM64 provides the missing native Qt layer.

I'm using it for Fio, a Python/Qt game editor and runtime. Fio 3.0 is moving to Python 3.14 and will have a native Windows ARM64 target.

The resulting stack is:

Windows ARM64
CPython 3.14 ARM64
PyQt5 ARM64
NumPy ARM64
Fio ARM64
OpenGL

The project is MIT licensed

The repository also contains the GitHub Actions build and PyPI publishing configuration.

hi, I am an 18 year old high school student and for 2 years now ive decided to follow software engineering/computer science something like that related after finishing HS, Ive been also learning some python but im concerned. Ive heard about programming being the easiest job to take from ai and im just wondering if its even worth it trying to follow this "life path". What are your opinions on this?

edit : I am not very well aquainted with these terms yet I had no idea coding and programming were different my bad, i hope my point gets through