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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(...

I rewrote a data analysis pipeline, moving it from #python to #julialang . I am now in love with the threading support in Julia.
The task is very parallelizable but each thread needs random read access to a tens-of-GB dataset. In Python (with multiprocessing, shared stores, etc) data bookkeeping was a nightmar…

Logged into Google using Chrome at work and found it's become a Kakfa-esque experience where I had to log in five times before I realized what was going on with "profiles" I've never asked for. Reminds me of the time I did a shoot-out of ten visual recognition APIs and I got demos of the others done in 20 minutes each but Google Cloud Compute took two hours because it trashed my Python #google

BREAKING: #CPython 3.13.10 and 3.14.1 changed the multiprocessing message format in patch release. As a result, programs using multiprocessing may break randomly if they are running while #Python is upgraded (i.e. need restarting).
But apparently it's not a big deal, since all the cool kids are running Python in containers, and nobody is using Python for system tools anymore. Everything has been RIIR-ed and Python is only omnipresent in some backwaters like #Gentoo.
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/142206

Over Thanksgiving I’ve been using TypeScript more, after previous experience with Python typing. Some things are way better. Some are worse.
In Python, you can declare and initialize a field together:
self.foo: int = 5
In TS, you can do this in two ways. You can write in the class declaration
foo: number = 5;
but the expression is evaluated before the constructor(!). Or you can write
constructor(public foo: number)
but this only works if i…

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…

I wrote up how I set up #ty with #helix, with a focus on finding third-party packages (a.k.a. virtualenvs, which I keep on a central location!)
https:/…

Using ty with the helix editor · Technical inconsistencies blog
The folks at Astral have released ty, which they define as: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust. You can read more in the blog post announcing it. Today, I set it up with helix. To make it work, we first have to install it. Using uv, it’s as easy as typing: uv tool install ty@latest Then, edit your ~/.config/helix/languages.toml and add the following: [language-server.ty] command = "ty" args = ["server"] [[language]] name = "python" scope = "source.p…

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.

Playing around with Antigravity, vibe coded a social media summarizer that makes a summary of the last 48 hours of my bluesky and mastodon timelines, using python, a local database of the posts on my laptop and APIs of mentioned services. Works greats after squashing some bugs and some iterations. Interestingly you need to know a little bit about coding to use it efficienctly, even in "vibecode" mode.
#AI

Playing around with Antigravity, vibe coded a social media summarizer that makes a summary of the last 48 hours of my bluesky and mastodon timelines, using python, a local database of the posts on my laptop and APIs of mentioned services. Works greats after squashing some bugs and a few iterations. Interestingly you need to know a little bit about coding to use it efficienctly, even in "vibecode" mode.

It's time, for a new job.
I'm an experienced software developer, who prefers Python, and C . Though I'd also like to learn a new, modern language, like e.g. Rust.
Yes, I've been using AI for code completion. Yes I know current versions of my preferred languages. No I have no hard restriction on the industry.
I'm not cheap, I'm good.
If you're aware of any positions in Europe, preferably in Zürich, or remote, let me know.

Ah yes, brew upgraded some ssl-related .so file and broke the python binaries linked against it. Again. So many venvs now lay in ruins.
There has got to be a better way.
(Why do pyenv-built pythons seem to habitually get built using the brew-provided libraries? There's no way for brew to know about that dependency.)
#brew #python #macdev #complaining #askfedi

Just finished up final polish on first release of my anarchy RNG library in Lua! Have you ever wanted an incremental or reversible shuffle? I've got one for you :)
Lua REAME page w/ links: #coding #rng #random