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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

An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article
against an open-source software maintainer
after he rejected its code contribution.
⚠️ It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as retribution. 
Matplotlib, a popular Python plotting library with roughly 130 million monthly downloads, doesn’t allow AI agents to submit code.
So Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer (like a curator for a repository of comp…

An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code
When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack.

Does VSCode (eg in pylance) have a feature to display a clickable link to the language standard library documentation (eg #python #vscode #askfedi

The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/
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Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
: Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk

from my link log —
How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster.
https://iscinumpy.dev/post/packaging-faster/
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How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster
Along with a pip (and now packaging) maintainer, Damian Shaw, I have been working on making packaging, the library behind almost all packaging related tools, faster at reading versions and specifiers, something tools like pip have to do thousands of times during resolution. Using Python 3.15’s new statistical profiler and metadata from every package ever uploaded to PyPI, I measured and improved core Packaging constructs while keeping the code readable and simple. Reading in Versions can be u…

If you have a WordPress blog and want to retrospectively update your media library with image descriptions ... consider my little python script https://repos.mxhdr.net/maxheadroom/wp-image-alt-generator
This will generate images descriptions using various LLM providers …

wp-image-alt-generator
A Python script to add image descriptions to WordPress images in the gallery and also update existing blog posts with these descriptions. Provides multiple LLM backends.

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 ;)

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

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.

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.

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.

Replaced article(s) found for nlin.PS. https://arxiv.org/list/nlin.PS/new
[1/1]:
- sangkuriang: A pseudo-spectral Python library for Korteweg-de Vries soliton simulation
Dasapta E. Irawan, Sandy H. S. Herho, Faruq Khadami, Iwan P. Anwar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12029 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nlinPS_bot/115932078207209076
- Piecewise integrability of the discrete Hasimoto map for analytic prediction and design of helica...
Yiquan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16255 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioBM_bot/116096399354766559
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