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Here's two examples of running command line stuff on iOS via Apple Shortcuts and a-Shell.
One shows the uptime of my phone, the other runs a Python script and shows the output.
#iOS #apple #python

python_dependency: Python Dependency Network
Python's package dependency networks. Nodes in the network are Python's packages registered to PyPI and edges are dependencies among packages.
This network has 58743 nodes and 108399 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
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#TGIQF: „Das Leben des Brian“ — Das Quiz rund zu Monty Pythons Filmklassiker
Die Komödie "Das Leben des Brian" sorgte 1979 für reichlich Gelächter und kirchliche Pikiertheit. Wir würdigen den Monty-Python-Klassiker mit einem Quiz.

#TGIQF: Das Quiz rund um „Das Leben des Brian“
Die Komödie "Das Leben des Brian" sorgte 1979 für reichlich Gelächter und kirchliche Pikiertheit. Wir würdigen den Monty-Python-Klassiker mit einem Quiz.

This is such an end of an era that fresh Python programmers can’t even fathom.
PyPy used to be our hope! No major Python conference that didn’t suggest that they’re gonna fix the GIL and make time go backwards. And yeah, it’s really fast! I suspect the money-backed focus on performance in CPython combined with the compat paper cuts PyPy always came with has sealed its fate. I‘ve watched its decline over the years so I’m not surprised, but damn.

#Steady #Klimacrew
Vom Puristen zum #IDE-Nutzer
Ganz langsam. 😁 Wie verändert sich der Workflow, wenn man statt eines simplen Editors mit einer IDE arbeitet? Als Hobby-Entwickler hat mir Notepa…

Visual Studio Code einrichten: Vom Puristen zum IDE-Nutzer
Visual Studio Code einrichten für Python und Git inklusive Codex-Integration. Ein Erfahrungsbericht mit praktischen Anleitungen.

python_dependency: Python Dependency Network
Python's package dependency networks. Nodes in the network are Python's packages registered to PyPI and edges are dependencies among packages.
This network has 58743 nodes and 108399 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…

I'll be speaking about #opensource in #varberg next week. Come and join me!
https:/…

The rewrite of the Sisyphus server continues, I've got all of the GET endpoints and about 60% of all the endpoints finished overall. Some initial testing on the `/workers` and `/queue` endpoints show some worrying results from the old version and some great results from the new version. The `/workers` endpoint started throwing errors at about 800 RPS on the Python/Flask version (the old one), the rewrite is showing around 4800 RPS (Golang/Gin). The `/queue` endpoint doesn't show a…

Oh man, #LLM and licensing is going to he so much fun, does everybody miss ‘90s so much?
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet
Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank...

Oh, in other news, Wheel Variants (formerly PEP 817) is being split into smaller PEPs that will be easier to comprehend. The draft of the first split part, PEP 825, titled "Wheel Variants: Package Format" has been merged. We'd appreciate your feedback!
#Python #packaging

Has it really been a year since I released this? I'm still really (mostly) enjoying Python, though I keep hearing good things ago Go and Rust...
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/03/08/blognag-a-blog-post-reminder/

⭐ Starred a repository

aitorres/barkr
Yet another social media cross-posting tool in Python
github.com/aitorres/barkr

GitHub - aitorres/barkr: Yet another social media cross-posting tool in Python · GitHub
Yet another social media cross-posting tool in Python - aitorres/barkr

Dynamic #Languages Faster and Cheaper in 13-Language #ClaudeCode Benchmark
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/…

I have just updated this old #IDA Plugin of mine: IDA Magic Strings.
https://github.com/joxeankoret/idamagicstrings
It now supports installation using hcli (

It strikes me that one of the things LLMs rob us of is the exact kind of serendipity that much of OSS relies on.
I was just looking something up on https://docs.python.org, which lead me to stumble on a line of documentation entirely irrelevant to what I was trying to do - But it caught my eye because…

My wife is currently trying to get a python script working on her computer and she's encountering the "fun" of python not having any package manager built-in

wtf does everytime a new v of #python is rolled out in linux distros, all virtual envs break, and i do have to rebuild them manually. we're now 13 minor versions since py v2.7 and everything became worse since then. i have a stable app, and if python would not fuck up this i would not have to touch it in a decade, but because of this, i feel like i'm in the java ecosystem where work is gener…

Slightly technical coding question, #Matlab to #Python:
What's the simplest way to read a Matlab table in Python?
Or, if that's not possible, what should I convert my Matlab table to so I can read it in python? 🙏
It's quite a big table with "nested" data i.e. some of th…

load matlab tables in python using scipy.io.loadmat
Is it possible to load matlab tables in python using scipy.io.loadmat? What I'm doing: In Matlab: tab = table((1:500)') save('tab.mat', 'tab') In Python: import scipy.io mat = scipy.io.loadmat(...

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
„Copy Fail“: Linux-root in allen großen Distributionen mit 732 Byte Python

„Copy Fail“: Linux-root in allen großen Distributionen mit 732 Byte Python
Die Entdecker haben die root-Lücke im Linux-Kernel „Copy Fail“ getauft. Alle größeren Distributionen seit 2017 sind betroffen.

A medical student reverse-engineered AI tools used by medical colleges on suspicion they were filtering his applications, highlighting AI-driven hiring concerns (Todd Feathers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/he-couldnt-land-a-job-interview-was-ai-to-blame/

He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.

A buddy of mine is looking for work! Hit me up if you’re interested in a great developer and leader

Mir fehlte ein simples Tetris ohne Werbung, Irgendwas-Mode und Krimskrams. Geht (dank Python und der sehr praktischen pyGame-Library) auch ohne Vibecoding. Auch wenn's trivial ist: das Gefühl, selbst eine gute Lösung gefunden zu haben, wie sich etwas programmieren lässt, ist immer noch ein sehr gutes ;)

At work @…, we are testing a new format where everyone from the support team has a one on one with everyone else. I created a python script to create the combinations and dates. At home, I thought it would be nice to make it easier to use and get back into learning Vue. I re-created the script as a tiny web app: MatchICS.
You enter a list of entities (people, t…

🛠️ Code generation with diff preview, cURL builder from captured requests, one-click request replay, VS Code-style command palette (Ctrl K), built-in Swagger UI & dark/light theme with PWA offline support
🌐 Language-agnostic API (#OpenAPI 3.1) - send debug data from #Python,

https://github.com/ellieayla/argparse-help-markdown extracts all the --command-line=arguments supported by a CLI tool built with the Python argparse library, and writes them as a markdown table.
It's like your-cool-script.py --help, but for embedding into README.md during CI.
No dependencies outside of standard library. Single file module. Works great with @… 's cog.

Here’s my part in the great nogil/free-threading endeavor: build-and-inspect-python-package now will optionally add 3.14t and 3.15t to the generated matrix if a package indicates to support 3.14 or 3.15!
https://github.com/hynek/build-and-inspect-python-package…

Release v2.16.0 · hynek/build-and-inspect-python-package
Added New include-free-threaded input. When set to 'true', free-threaded Python siblings (for example, 3.14t) are included in the version outputs for Python 3.14 and later, inserted inline after e...

#Cython promises to make "writing #C extensions for Python as easy as #Python itself." The reality is: learn C's mental model, express it in Python syntax, and use a separate diagnostic tool to verif…

faster-python-bench/docs/cython-minefield.md at main · cemrehancavdar/faster-python-bench
Contribute to cemrehancavdar/faster-python-bench development by creating an account on GitHub.

omg it's Mark Pilgrim 😮 https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet
Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank...

So, decided to get them rookie `/queue` numbers up so did a quick bit of caching. For a 12-job queue, I went from 240 RPS (Python/Flask) to 680 (Golang/Gin) then to 3400 RPS with some proper caching. The `/workers` endpoint would benefit as well, but I think its performant enough though I may end up adding a bit of caching later.
#golang

Installing #Spyder on :nixos: #NixOS, ugh... 😩
• must use spyder from unstable, in stable it depends on insecure qtwebengine-5
• it runs, but the interactive terminal needs spyder_kernels module
• adding python3Packages.spyder-kernels to the python env, doesn't help
• putting pytho…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
„Copy Fail“: Linux-root in allen großen Distributionen mit 732 Byte Python

„Copy Fail“: Linux-root in allen großen Distributionen mit 732 Byte Python
Die Entdecker haben die root-Lücke im Linux-Kernel „Copy Fail“ getauft. Alle größeren Distributionen seit 2017 sind betroffen.

python_dependency: Python Dependency Network
Python's package dependency networks. Nodes in the network are Python's packages registered to PyPI and edges are dependencies among packages.
This network has 58743 nodes and 108399 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…

Now elementary-data has also been hit: for just under half a day, a malicious version 0.23.3 was available on PyPI, which had stolen credentials such as SSH keys, AWS login details, API tokens and wallet files. The attack was carried out via a script injection vulnerability in one of the GitHub Actions workflows. Cooldown helps protect against such attacks, as we have described here:

Apps
App projects are suitable for web servers, scripts and CLI. We can also create them with uv init --package: myapp/pyproject.toml, The pyproject.toml file contains a scripts entry point myapp:main: ...

Thonny, Python IDE for beginners
#IDEsofMarch #python

A user at a client contacted me over what transpired to be them trying to install a python library on a machine (that didn’t have python installed) to run an AI tool at the direction of ChatGPT.
After *I* get it installed:
User: “Ok, how does it work?”
Me: 🤷🏻‍♀️ (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ “never seen it before”

Boah, ernsthaft? Kauf mir nen Zi-Stick im Handel und muss erstmal durch dieses Firmware-Prozedere (https://aeotec.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/6000270951-update-zi-stick-to-thread-or-zigbee-with-python-…

#Steady #Klimacrew
Was tun, wenn falsche Einträge im #Marktstammdatenregister die Auswertung ruinieren?
Das Register ist berüchtigt für Fehleinträge durch Anlagenbetreiber. …

Fehler im Marktstammdatenregister: Fehlerkorrektur zur Laufzeit
Zwei fehlerhafte Einträge im Marktstammdatenregister verzerren die Windenergie-Analyse – eine einfache Python-Lösung schafft Abhilfe.

Вопрос к гуру #Python и #SQLite: что вы передаете в функции, Cursor или Connection? Какие плюсы и минусы, или нет никакой разницы?
Если нужно коммитить, то насколько странно делать это через cur.connection.commit()?

1. Do random changes to cython-test-exception-raiser, and commit them as "initial code".
2. Move the extension module from the package directory into top-level "raiser.*.so", for no apparent reason.
3. Switch to CalVer, so that #Twisted newer upgrades to the new releases (it pins to <2).
4. I file a bug, because I'd like to finally remove the old version from #Gentoo.
#Python

Sind User Sessions unter Python Web Frameworks wie Flask und FastAPI wirklich so beschissen, oder bilde ich mir das nur ein? Entweder es werden Session-Daten Client-seitig (signiert) in Cookies bzw. JWT gespeichert, oder die Server-seitigen Implementierungen brauchen aufgeblähte Datenbanken :(

python_dependency: Python Dependency Network
Python's package dependency networks. Nodes in the network are Python's packages registered to PyPI and edges are dependencies among packages.
This network has 58743 nodes and 108399 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
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why can't a minor version change not be goddamn backward compatible ffs.
#python

Falls ihr das #Python "dist"-Modul oder #Ansible nutzt und bei #Gentoo plötzlich für distribution/ansible_distribution/… falsche Werte erhaltet (z.B. ClearLinux):
Gentoo quo…

surely a project that starts with converting a python script from 2 to 3 cannot go wrong #academicChatter

my python boot is too tight

Looks like there is another supply chain attack on open source, this time the #python based #litellm package. I had a look at the #github page and I can see over a thousand open pull requests and a core t…

«YubiKey Manager — Sicherheitslücke ermöglicht Ausführung untergeschobenen Codes:
Yubico warnt vor einer Suchpfad-Schwachstelle im YubiKey Manager, libfido2 und python-fido2. Updates korrigieren die Fehler.»
Eine IT-Security Meldung die wirklich sicher ist und Updates nun wirklich sofort vor dem Wochenende gemacht werden müssen.
🔐

YubiKey Manager: Sicherheitslücke ermöglicht Ausführung untergeschobenen Codes
Yubico warnt vor einer Suchpfad-Schwachstelle im YubiKey Manager, libfido2 und python-fido2. Updates korrigieren die Fehler.

As of 26.1, Black forces 1 line after imports which—no matter how you feel about that—conflicts with flake8’s E302 that enforces 2 empty lines btw classes/functions.
I've been told that it was in --preview for a yr & nobody complained… I can hear Douglas Adams giggling.
As one of the OG Black cheerleaders this makes me sad since this change seems entirely unnecessary. Making THE Python-based formatter incompatible w/ THE Python-based linter… This was the fallback in case…

#Python #Type Checker Comparison: Typing #Spec Conformance
https://…

from my link log —
Writing C with indent-based syntax similar to CoffeeScript or Python, via Guile.
https://sph.mn/computer/guides/c/c-indent.html
saved 2026-02-14

Final preparations for the Python Users Berlin (@…) meeting tonight. I’m looking forward to meeting all the Pythonistas in Berlin and Rodrigo’s (@…) talk on itertools.tee:

Python Users Berlin (PUB): The paradox of itertools.tee, Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
📆 Agenda * 19:00 Welcome to the PUB (Python Users Berlin) – setting up * 19:15 Main talk * 20:00 Lightning talks * 20:30 Social gathering 🎙 Main talk by [Rodrigo Girão

User A wrote a nifty little tool in Python. On Windows. Several weeks of work.
User B wants to use it as well.
They copy it, try to run it. Doesn't work.
Call me for help.
A: "It works on my machine. B must configure his python exactly like I do!"
Me: "Can't we run it in a virtual environment (venv). Or with a docker image?"
A: "Hm, I would have to learn how to do that. Is this really necessary?"
Me:

Moje nowe odkrycie https://marimo.io/ - pythonowe notebooki jako pliky .py .

Bardzo sprytne narzędzie. To, co zrobimy w "notebooku" możemy też od razu jako skrypt uruchamiać.

#python #notebooks

Polars is a lightning fast DataFrame library/in-memory query engine with parallel execution and cache efficiency. And now you can use is with the tidyverse syntax: #rstats

More Efficient Tidyverse Code, Using Polars in the Background
Polars is a cross-language tool for manipulating very large data. However, one drawback is that the R implementation has a syntax that will look odd to many R users who are not used to Python syntax. The objective of tidypolars is to improve the ease-of-use of Polars in R by providing tidyverse syntax to polars.

Blindsight Simulator https://github.com/Satoshi88818/BlindsightSim Stand-alone python script by James Squire to simulate visual experience through cortical and retinal visual prostheses a la Cortigent Orion or Neuralink Blindsight;

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116161415651095950
many brew install and virtualenvs and pips later the script is working!
(also curse you apple for shipping python essentially in a broken state)

python_dependency: Python Dependency Network
Python's package dependency networks. Nodes in the network are Python's packages registered to PyPI and edges are dependencies among packages.
This network has 58743 nodes and 108399 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
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Does VSCode (eg in pylance) have a feature to display a clickable link to the language standard library documentation (eg #python #vscode #askfedi

#Steady #Klimacrew
#BahnMonitor-Projekt: 7. Zufall ist nicht gleich Zufall. 🤭
Nach der Verspätungsmeldung kommt ein Wissenshäppchen. Der

Python-Projekt mit Bahn-API: 7. JSON-Wissenshäppchen: Zufall clever gemacht
So ergänzt dein Python-Bot Mastodon-Posts mit JSON-Wissenshäppchen – zufällig ausgewählt und fair rotiert.

When you drop the dependency on #chardet over the #AI #slop release… and replace it with your own slop.
#Python #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM

python_dependency: Python Dependency Network
Python's package dependency networks. Nodes in the network are Python's packages registered to PyPI and edges are dependencies among packages.
This network has 58743 nodes and 108399 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…

OpenAI agrees to acquire Astral, which makes Python tools for developers, to integrate its team into Codex, and says Codex has 2M users, up 3x since January (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

ok so newsletter is out, and i’ve finally posted my PyCon UK keynote with additional material to my homepage.
if you wanna know what took me so long: check out my latest newsletter ;)
back to sauna!
https://hynek.me/talks/python-superpower/

Python’s True Superpower
Python appears to be everywhere nowadays! How did it happen, that a language that almost died in the Python 2 to 3 process is now the lingua franca a default choice when people talk about programming? There must be some secret superpower and I think I found it!

“they stole my apes, Odo” — Still relevant
“I SEEM TO RECALL YOU TAKING GREAT GLEE IN EXPLAINING THAT CENTRALISED PLATFORMS WERE OBSOLETE THANKS TO NFT'S.”
“WELL-”
“BUT NOW YOU WANT THE AUTHORITIES HELP IN POLICING THE SALE OF THESE…THINGS.”
https://mastodon.social/@Wraithe/11159

python_dependency: Python Dependency Network
Python's package dependency networks. Nodes in the network are Python's packages registered to PyPI and edges are dependencies among packages.
This network has 58743 nodes and 108399 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…

I think we should EOL #Python versions more often. This triggers not-very-active projects to finally make a release, including another batch of releases today (apparently 6 months mark). Unlike, I don't know, bug fixes.
#Gentoo

I do not get how Python's math.modf works...
Why do I get all the zeros or nines?
4.4 | 4.0 | 0.40000000000000036
4.5 | 4.0 | 0.5
4.6 | 4.0 | 0.5999999999999996
I can fix it with... more math, but maybe I am doing something wrong?
#python #math

#Steady #Klimacrew
#BahnMonitor-Projekt: 5. Automatisierte Skripte brauchen Kontrolle – besonders bei API-Aufrufen.
Jetzt bekommt das

Python-Projekt mit Bahn-API: 5. Fehlerprotokollierung und Logfile
So richtest du Logging in deinem Python-Projekt ein: UTF-8-Logfile, CSV-Struktur, automatische Dateierstellung inklusive.

python_dependency: Python Dependency Network
Python's package dependency networks. Nodes in the network are Python's packages registered to PyPI and edges are dependencies among packages.
This network has 58743 nodes and 108399 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…

(I suspect the crowd on the fediverse will skew towards “yeah duh” on what I’m about to say - But I think there’s still value in saying it out loud)
As a Very Serious Enterprise Software Consultant I’m quite used to the lead time for running software to be Quite Long, for various Reasons.
So tonight for a change, I fired up my computer, opened up a new file with nano (Sorry vi vs. emarcs warriors) and just like… typed some python?

from my link log —
Towards scalable dataframe systems.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00888
saved 2026-03-29 https://dotat.at/:/6GM7U.html

Towards Scalable Dataframe Systems
Dataframes are a popular abstraction to represent, prepare, and analyze data. Despite the remarkable success of dataframe libraries in Rand Python, dataframes face performance issues even on moderately large datasets. Moreover, there is significant ambiguity regarding dataframe semantics. In this paper we lay out a vision and roadmap for scalable dataframe systems. To demonstrate the potential in this area, we report on our experience building MODIN, a scaled-up implementation of the most widel…

Finally put together type stubs for an old (last release 2017!) python library I've been depending on for years. And now wondering whether it would have been easier to just contribute types to the library directly. I thought it abandoned but then the maintainer responded up on an unrelated ticket.
(Though there's no CI infra actually working anymore. Makes testing contributions painful. Wonder whether building that first would be worthwhile & welcome...)
#python #packaging

Integration in Codex: OpenAI übernimmt das Start-up Astral
OpenAI baut mit der Übernahme des Python-Tool-Entwicklers Astral das Engagement im Bereich Coding weiter aus und will seine Codex-Plattform weiterentwickeln.

python_dependency: Python Dependency Network
Python's package dependency networks. Nodes in the network are Python's packages registered to PyPI and edges are dependencies among packages.
This network has 58743 nodes and 108399 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…

python_dependency: Python Dependency Network
Python's package dependency networks. Nodes in the network are Python's packages registered to PyPI and edges are dependencies among packages.
This network has 58743 nodes and 108399 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…

The document-wide in-scrollbar thumbnail / minimap has been around for a while. Most people are familiar with it from RockScroll (2008) or Sublime Text (2012) or VSCode (2015).
#coverage #python

#Steady #Klimacrew
#BahnMonitor-Projekt: 3. Klappt der erste Zugriff auf die Bahn-API?
Im nächsten Schritt wurde die API-Abfrage getestet udn geprüft, ob die zurückgelieferten Datenstru…

Python-Projekt mit Bahn-API: 3. Erste Tests mit API-Abfrage
Erfahre, wie du Bahn-API-Antworten in Python einliest, analysierst und debugst – mit Tipps zur Konsolenausgabe und Codeanpassung.

Aaand we're seeing the first '#setuptools < 82' runtime dependencies in random packages because they are trying hard to workaround breakage due to pkg_resources removal.
#Python

It's been a while but I was reminded that Java is shit.
Python is better, but has issues, mostly because of macOS.
And macOS permissions for user-created applications are a nightmare!
But a big, big thanks goes out to tools like Platypus.
"Platypus is a developer tool that creates native Mac applications from command line scripts such as shell scripts or Python, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, JavaScript and PHP programs."

Platypus - Create Mac apps from command line scripts |
Sveinbjörn's personal website. Also some open source software stuff.

Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessing LLMs, have been removed from PyPI after a supply chain attack injected them with credential-stealing code (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/trivy_compromise_litellm/

LiteLLM loses game of Trivy pursuit, gets compromised
: Python interface for LLMs infected with malware via polluted CI/CD pipeline

in a world of omnipresent shitty and baity talk/blog/video titles, I cannot appreciate @… 's talk enough:
"How to give your Python code to someone else”
It's perfect. 🥹
https://…

How to give your Python code to someone else
You've written some Python code. It works great on your machine. Now you want someone else to use that code. … Presented by: Russell Keith-Magee

#Steady #Klimacrew
#BahnMonitor-Projekt: 2. Welche Architektur sollte der Bot haben?
Bevor es ans Coden geht, ist etwas Grübeln über eine sinnvolle Gliederung der Module ratsam. Wie sie…

Python-Projekt mit Bahn-API: 2. Architekturentwurf
Architektur eines Python-Projekts zur Analyse von ICE-Verspätungen via Bahn-API – mit ChatGPT und strukturierter Code-Aufteilung.

Fun case of circular logic in #Python #standards:
https://discuss.python.org/t/spaces-not-considered-a-valid-verbatim-character-for-glob-patterns/106463
1. Use "globs" in the specification.
2. Decide that "glob" may be ambiguous, so add severe restrictions on what's supported.
3. Because of the severe restrictions, people may have reinvented the wheel instead of using system `glob` module.
4. Since people may have used their custom implementations, just relaxing the spec is a problem.

python_dependency: Python Dependency Network
Python's package dependency networks. Nodes in the network are Python's packages registered to PyPI and edges are dependencies among packages.
This network has 58743 nodes and 108399 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…

Argument type is "list[tuple[dict[str, list[list[Unknown]]], list[str]] | tuple[dict[str, list[list[Unknown]]], list[Any]]]"
Utterly ridiculous statements made about parsed json that no-one should have to read in the morning.
#python #typing

#Steady #Klimacrew
#BahnMonitor-Projekt: 1. Wie kommt man an Live-Daten der Deutschen Bahn?
Im November konnte ich per Zufall mit einem

Python-Projekt mit Bahn-API: 1. Zugang einrichten
Entdecke, wie du mit Visual Studio Code und ChatGPT ein Python-Projekt realisierst – inklusive Vibe Coding und Bahn-API-Zugriff.

Did you know that #PEP425 ("Compatibility Tags for Built Distributions") said:
> Why isn’t there a . in the Python version number?
>
> CPython has lasted 20 years without a 3-digit major release. This should continue for some time. Other implementations may use _ as a delimiter, since both - and . delimit the surrounding filename.
This didn't age well.
#Python

And while we're releasing, here's a double-feature, mostly to avoid GitHub Actions complaining about deprecated actions:
- https://github.com/hynek/build-and-inspect-python-package/releases/tag/v2.15.0
-

So last week I asked people to share their blog URLs, and I got a whole bunch of them! And I’ve been trying to go through them, and some go back to 2015… So there’s a lot to do. I did find a really interesting one about GPX files and Python, but it uses Google maps, and I’m not sure I want to do that since I prefer OpenStreetMap. Nice to find interesting gems though, in the 1,500 (gulp!) blog posts I’m going through.

> The next great […] library for #Python
Checks.
> Last commit: 4 years ago. Already broken.

#Python is just doing great. We're not having impossible constraints, as some projects need old #setuptools for pkg_resources, and other projects are starting to require newer setuptools for some fancy new features. And ofc after promising to release pkg_resources standalone over a month ago, setuptools upstream didn't deliver.
#Gentoo

I’m shocked I haven’t sold out PyTexas yet! What’s up Austin, I even got a fresh haircut! #Python
https://pretix.eu/pytexas/2026/

PyTexas 2026
April 17 – 19, 2026

I was using the Python csv library for a script but decided I should dig into the pandas DataFrame stuff instead.
It was more complex, and it took me awhile to figure things out, and I had to read a bunch of web pages explaining things.
But in the end, I am 100% happy I did it that way.
I did not want to ask some AI/LLM for the answers, or to write the code for me.
Because for me, the struggle and the journey is part of creating something worthwhile.

Here’s stamina 26.1.0, my opinionated #Python retry package, that now supports more than 1024 retries for the cases when you need A LOT of stamina: https://github.com/hynek/stamina/releases/tag/26…

Release 26.1.0 · hynek/stamina
Highlights stamina now allows more than 1024 retries by handling overflows and warns on a footgun. Full changelog below! Special Thanks This release would not be possible without my generous sponso...

And non-zero version epochs in #Python are now officially discouraged. Not that anyone used them.
#Gentoo

Maintainer friends of wheel-heavy #Python packages: do we already have some practical, standard way to automatically upload all the cibuildwheel output across all architectures? My current workflow is a) a pain in the ass and b) requires me to have one last PyPI upload token.

How to get a package removed from #Gentoo?
1. Add a new #NIH dependency.
2. The dependency turns out to use coherent.build. Nightmare! Oh, wait, apparently coherent.build generates source distributions that use flit.core (understandable; coherent.build is unusable).
3. The dependency depends on chardet (the project famous for GPL copywashing). Okay, technically it works with the older version, and the dependency is optional with poor person's fallback, so I guess it would be fine.
4. But hey, this package is not used by anything, and the last package using it in Gentoo was removed in 2020, after not being touched for 4 years already. Also, that package is not maintained upstream since 2017, so I guess there's negligible risk of it ever coming back.
#Python

The state of #security these days: #Python #virtualenv package now includes SHA256 sums of their bundled wheels, declaring that it protects against "supply-chain compromise". Because obviously there are so many attack vectors that permit you to alter a .whl file but not the .py file in the same directory.
No, I'm not saying verifying checksum makes no sense, because indeed it can save some pain if fs is damaged somehow. However, calling this a "security" feature is a misnomer at best, and openly giving people false sense of security at worst.