news: announce the French edition of Python Programming for Economics and Finance

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What changes

This adds a News post announcing the French edition of Python Programming for Economics and Finance, which went live on 2026-07-17 at https://quantecon.github.io/lecture-python-programming.fr/. Under the README's definitions, a new language edition of a lecture series is News; its later updates belong in Activity, which already records them. No post has announced a translated edition before.

• File: _posts/2026-07-17-python-programming-french-edition.md. It's dated to the launch, as the site dates posts written after the event (the SciPy, CMU and IMF workshop posts, for example). It will be the newest post, so it leads /news/ and the home page.
• Front matter follows the other posts: author: QuantEcon, tag: [lectures] (as the 2023 series launches use), and a one-sentence excerpt that fits the home-page card.

Sources

An independent fact-check verified every statement against public records, and every link resolves.

• Launch: release publish-2026-07-17 in QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fr, and its first Pages deployment the same day.
• Coverage: the French and English tables of contents are identical.
• Language switcher: Add language switcher support for fa, fr and zh-cn editions lecture-python-programming#490, merged 2026-08-03.
• Machine translation: the seed PR Seed the French edition: 26 lectures translated with Opus 4.8 lecture-python-programming.fr#1 (Claude Opus 4.8, with action-translation's translate init).
• Updates: the English repo's sync-translations-fr.yml, and the automated review workflow in the French repo.
• Native-speaker review: the tracker French translation review — native-speaker read-through (project tracker) lecture-python-programming.fr#40, which lists the five reviews merged so far.
• Glossary: Emile's terminology rulings were added in feat(fr): encode the first native-editor review — 4 register/anti-calque rules + glossary v1.1 action-translation#241 and glossary(fr): v1.2 — Namespace, Heads, standard-normal context from the second editor round action-translation#328.

Before merging

• Emile is named and his work described, so he may want to see the post first. I haven't contacted him.
• Author line: QuantEcon is the default for lecture posts. Change it to your name if you'd rather.
• The invitation to open issues on the French edition's repository: confirm you want public reports there. Issues are open, but the repo has no contributing guide or issue templates.
• The review count ("five lectures") is correct today. Recheck the tracker if the merge waits.

Check on the preview

• /2026/07/17/python-programming-french-edition.html renders, including the French title and the no-break space in "POO I : Objets et méthodes".
• The post is first on /news/ and in the home page's Latest News, with its excerpt in full.

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What changed in this PR

This PR adds a single News post announcing the French edition of Python Programming for Economics and Finance. It fits the site's content model where a new language edition of a lecture series is announced as News (with later updates tracked in Activity). The post is backdated to the launch date (2026-07-17), consistent with how other event posts are dated, and becomes the newest post so it leads /news/ and the home page's Latest News.

Changes:

• Adds _posts/2026-07-17-python-programming-french-edition.md with front matter matching existing lecture posts (author: QuantEcon, tag: [lectures], quoted title/excerpt).
• Body describes the launch, language-switcher inclusion, the machine-translation workflow via action-translation, and the native-speaker review progress, with well-formed links.

File	Description
_posts/​2026-07-17-python-programming-french-edition.md	New Jekyll News post announcing the French edition; front matter and formatting follow established _posts/ conventions.

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