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4 mois de #Python de manière intensive: mon retour sur le langage
https://mcorbin.fr/posts/2025-12-26-python-langage/

#Python "do not pin your new dependencies to a version that's already obsolete by the time you release your package" challenge.
This one also has difficulty: impossible.
#packaging

On the way to Cologne for an ‘Object orientation with Python’ workshop.
#Python #OO

So … I have been busy contributing to this
tldr: real-time #telegram archive of the Russian War against Ukraine.
It’s 100% built with Claude Code in a bit more than 2 months
it’s near 200.000 lines of #python code, without counting with documentation of course.
check it out !

When you notice twine uploading a 400M sdist for a tiny #Python package, you know something went wrong.

Any #Python newbies out there? (Or experts that need to teach Python)
Would you have a specific online tutorial to recommend for someone who wants to learn Python without any prior programming experience? One that also explains how to install it ?
I was thinking of something like this:

Welcome To The Python Tutorial
Learn to program with this free Python tutorial for beginners. It's free, easy to read and lets you practice with in-browser code examples.

Python Folks, in my old Perl days I used HTML::Template, is there something comparable (or better) for simple HTML generation with templates in the Python world?
#python #html #perl

Only $1.5mil?
#Python #Anthropic

Use #Python for #Scripting!
https://hypirion.com/musings/use-python-for-scripting

In #Python, you could write sensible and transparent code, like this:
if (curNode):
curNode = curNode.next
But if you prefer something that is functionally identical, but harder to read, try this:
curNode and (curNode := curNode.next)
Follow me for more great tips on how to make life hell for the next person working with your code (which could be you).

My very first experience with Python was generating programmatic art using the Turtle module.
Don’t let anyone tell you coding is only for pros, it can be an incredibly fun and liberating experience.
#PythonIsForEveryone #Python

#Steady
Wie lassen sich #Wechselrichterdaten vom APsystems EZ1 lokal speichern?
Für statistische Auswertungen müssen alle Daten kontinuierlich gespeichert werden. Wie das mithilfe von #Python

EZ1-SPE Daten lokal speichern: Python-Skript auf Raspberry Pi (7/10)
Du willst Deine Wechselrichter-Daten lokal speichern und auswerten? So geht’s mit Raspberry Pi, Python und der EZ1-API!

A feature which I'm really looking forward to is brewing in #Python packaging: Specifying default extras.
The aiocoap library I maintain can (and is tested to) work with no other dependencies than Python, but most users will like the additional features such as pretty-printing support, or more security options than just TLS. So far, they have to `pip run --spec "aiocoap[all]" aio…

PEP 771 – Default Extras for Python Software Packages | peps.python.org
PEP 508 specifies a mini-language for declaring package dependencies. One feature of this language is the ability to specify extras, which are optional components of a distribution that, when used, install additional dependencies. This PEP proposes a me...

I just found a Starter Pack called Women in #Python: https://fedidevs.com/s/NjY3/
Ceated by Python Core Developer @…

Women in Python - Mastodon Starter Pack
Women in Python community

The #Pathfinder2E character data structure is in progress, figured a good ol'-fashioned JSON schema would be the way to go. Still, progress continues.
#python #characterSheet

Video tutorials for modern ideas and open source tools. #python

Code. Simply. Clearly. Calmly.
Short and simple video lessons that start from scratch. Tools and thoughts that might make your professional life more enjoyable.

Well, I suppose someone had to say it: I'm really disappointed that #PyPI / #PSF went as far as to use dark patterns in the donation banner.
#Python

📋 #SkillSeekers - #Python tool automatically transforms documentation, #GitHub repos & PDFs into production-ready AI skills

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…

#SlowHorses
🤝
#Python

Die #Python Software Foundation hat eine #Förderung von 1,5 Millionen US-Dollar durch die US-Regierung abgelehnt, da sie an Auflagen gegen #Diversität und

Python lehnt Millionenförderung durch Trump-Regierung wegen Anti-Diversitäts-Auflagen ab
Die Python Software Foundation hätte mit 1,5 Millionen US-Dollar die größte Förderung in der eigenen Geschichte erhalten sollen

Between #Matlab and #Python, which one would you recommend to learn, for a student who wants to learn programming (from scratch) to do data analysis? And why?
I am conflicted because I think Matlab is maybe slightly more straightforward to learn, but Python should be more useful in the long …

#python #pytest

MapToPoster is a beautiful utility to create minimalist posters of the (water)ways of a city.
If you have uv installed, it takes a moment to get going
#python

Santa #Python came super early in 2026!
With build 1.4.0, it is now possible to easily dump effective package metadata!
So getting the version of a package in the current directory is now as easy as `pipx run build --metadata 2>/dev/null | jq -r .version`.
This is NOT like parsing pyproject.toml or whatever. It builds the package and looks at the result. So it works even with…

Release 1.4.0 · pypa/build
Add --quiet flag (PR #947) Add option to dump PEP 517 metadata with --metadata (PR #940, PR #943) Support UV environment variable (PR #971) Remove a workaround for 3.14b1 (PR #960) In 3.14 final re...

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

What‘s your go-to #python or #rstats tool(chain) for splitting #German compounds? I‘ve tried a few but was not really satisfied. Maybe I missed something. #NLP #linguistics

0 days since random #Python project used `pytest.raises()` for warnings.
#pytest

📦 #Copyparty - Turn Any Device Into a Feature-Rich File Server #opensource #selfhosted #Python

"Do not introduce #NIH #RustLang dependencies in your #Python package when there's no performance, security or any other benefit to it, and it just limits portability and creates more work for packagers" challenge.
Difficulty: impossible.
#packaging

how did i not know about tox’s version range syntax!? (i.e., 3{9-14} == 3{9,10,11,12,13,14}) 😍
(added in tox 4.25.0 on 2025-03-27) #python

📊 Meine Top4-Beiträge der letzten Woche mit den meisten Boosts sind:
1. Die #Python Software Foundation hat 1,5 Mio USD #Förderung von US-Regierung abgelehnt.

How #uv got so fast
#python

Proud of the Python Software Foundation for withdrawing its proposal for grant funding from the Nation Sciences Foundation due to onerous anti-DEI requirements:
#psf #python #nsf #dei

0 days since random project started failing because someone decided to process a version number as a floating-point number, and didn't account for 2.10 🤦.
#Python #WTF

💻 New Tech Unveiled Meet TSUs (Thermodynamic Sampling Units)! The X0 prototype chip proves these primitives work in silicon at room temp. Plus, XTR0 desktop kit for early researchers—available this fall.
📚 #OpenSource Kickstart Dive in with Thermal, the #Python library to simulate TSUs on GPUs. Build thermoAI algorithms now & collaborate!

< ionen> I feel like I'm updating uv/uv-build more often than I use it and it takes like 10000x longer to build than the package I use it for
Who would have thought that the #RustLang fad will make people force others to install humongous tools that don't bring any benefit to them.
#Python #PEP517

🧠 #Headroom - The Context Optimization Layer for #LLM Applications #opensource #Python
…

When NOT to use #Pydantic
#python

Yeah, why not neglect all the good recommendations in the #Python ecosystem, and instead fork your own C extension package, force people to build it with #ZigLang (it's still C), add unconditional dependency on that, and on top of that, refuse to publish wheels, "allowing for optimised compilation according to your machine's specific architecture and capabilities, instead of some (low performance) common denominator."
Fortunately, looks like #Gentoo can just ignore all the fancy crap and compile it with GCC.
https://pypi.org/project/ruamel.yaml.clibz/
[UPDATE: didn't last long: https://sourceforge.net/p/ruamel-yaml/code/ci/6846cf136e775ed0052cdef6ff02330269c86011/]

Binary partitioning with k-d trees is silly amazing. And with OSM data in radians and pretending the planet is a perfect sphere, scikit-learn's BallTree works wonderfully for quickly finding things nearby some reference point.
Like how far away the nearest bicycle_parking is for every building in a city.
#IMadeAThing #python #osm #overpassql

#Sphinx joined the list of packages dropping #Python 3.11 (and therefore #PyPy) support. Of course, we could just go through the effort of dropping it from respective packages in #Gentoo, given it's not technically that common… but honestly, at this point I have zero motivation to put the extra effort for this, just to learn that next month some core package starts requiring Python 3.12.
So, would anyone really mind if I removed Python 3.11 and PyPy support completely from Gentoo packages?

0 days since random #Python package switched #PEP517 backend and published an incomplete source distribution.

I've almost missed my train today while filling bugs over another #slop release of #autobahn. This was the last straw. Well, the penultimate one, though I don't know why I'm even bothering.
#Python #NoAI

Totally normal #Python upstream attitude:
1. Ignore a reply on a bug report for 3 years.
2. Install a #StaleBot in the middle of the night.
3. 7 minutes after the bug is marked stale, claim that you "never heard back on this" and that "the issue was somewhere downstream", without even checking another linked issue.
#Matplotlib

> Concretely, we expect to add ML-KEM and ML-DSA APIs that are only available with #LibreSSL/#BoringSSL/AWS-LC, and not with #OpenSSL.
(from #Cryptography and #Qt simultaneously, right? (Qt rejected LibreSSL support.)
#Python

Uh, I'm seriously starting to wonder if I should start filing bugs to people "please move away from autobahn / txaio, it's turned into complete #AI #slop, with every release introducing major issues, and depending on it is plain dangerous."
#Python #NoAI #LLM

Let's get this straight: it is entirely normal for a #OpenSource project to accumulate bug reports over time. They're not a thing to be ashamed of.
On the contrary, if you see a nontrivial project with a very small number of bug reports, it usually means one of the following:
a. you've hit a malicious fake,
b. the project is very young and it doesn't have many users (so it's likely buggy),
c. the project is actively shoving issues under the carpet.
None of that is a good sign. You don't want to use that (except for b., if you're ready to be the beta tester).
#FreeSoftware #Gentoo #GitHub #Python

How to absolutely *not* do #OpenSource: require people to commit to work on other issues with your project in order to file bugs. So, sorry, #Typer, I won't be filing bugs. You figure out how you messed up your release yourself.
Also, please don't use #FastAPI. They are clearly bothered by the fact that people dare use their projects and waste their precious time with support requests.
#Python #FreeSoftware #Gentoo