Tootfinder

The new Python documentary is good. Definitely worth watching if you think you might be interested. It's on YouTube.
#python #programming #history

#Python 3.14.0
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140/

So #Zope released new versions of their packages, with pkg-resources style namespace removal.
Totally normal way to do the bumps:
1. At first, keep the existing testing hack (writing `__init__.py`).
2. Notice that the next package fails because it expects test paths relative to `zope` subdirectory. Skip it for now.
3. While doing the next package, realize you could remove that hack and simply run tests within the `zope` subdirectory! Go back and update all the previous packages, including the one that failed before.
4. Back to bumping. Notice that in the very next package you've had an even better solution: instead of `cd`, you just called `python -m unittest -s …`. Go back and update all the previous packages.
5. Back to bumping. The very next package turns out to actually expects test paths relative to the top-level site-packages directory. Well, you can use a hybrid of the `__init__.py` hack with `python -m unittest -s …`.
#Gentoo #Python

I’m somewhat exhausted to announce attrs 25.4.0!
The main reason for this release (and why it's published today) is that it ships the first pieces of work for Python 3.14 and PEP 749. There will be more work required and there's going to be a lot more churn once everyone starts testing 3.14 earnestly. We hope to receive more feedback before spending more time on this. #Python

Release 25.4.0 · python-attrs/attrs
Highlights The main reason for this release (and why it's published today) is that it ships the first pieces of work for Python 3.14 and PEP 749. There will be more work required and there's going ...

What Are #Python Asterisk and Slash Special Parameters For?
https://realpython.com/python-asterisk-and-slash-special-parameters/

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...

Released v0.22.0 of the ha-mqtt-discoverable #python module.
New features: Lock devices
Thanks again to Steffan for all his work on the module.
#homeassistant @… @…

#Python is Dying and Nobody Wants to Admit It
https://medium.com/codeelevation/python-is-dying-and-nobody-wants-to-admit-it-4260f774117a

Por la pega estoy haciendo un curso de #Python orientado a «Ciencia de Datos» y si bien no estš tan bueno como esperaba, el material y lo tips que he conseguido es lo mas interesante. Esto es justamente lo que quiero aprender.

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

🧵 Scaling asyncio on Free-Threaded Python
#python

Scaling asyncio on Free-Threaded Python
A recap on the work done in Python 3.14 to enable asyncio to scale on the free-threaded build of CPython.

< 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

“50% of Python practitioners who took the JetBrains survey have less than 2 years of professional experience.”
I might have a chance to transition from #dotnet to #python as a geriatric junior. 🤣

The State of Python 2025 | The PyCharm Blog
Discover the latest Python trends and predictions backed by a survey of over 30,000 developers.

I learned about PsychoPy which is an open-source package for running experiments in Python (a real and free alternative to Matlab).
Anyone using it?
#python

@… and @… let's goooo!!!! It's hybrid, so there is still time to join online
#python

Also yesterday at #OpenSSLCon25: Alex Gaynor of #Python #Cryptography saying their own X.509 parser written in Rust is six times faster than

We have finally documented Ruff – the tool greatly simplifies static code analysis for Python projects: #Python

Ruff
Ruff is an extremely fast Python linter and code formatter written in Rust that can enforce the rules of flake8, isort, perflint, Black, Bandit, and others. In total, Ruff can check over 800 rules....

🎤 Create custom voice agents in under 10 minutes using #Python with STT, LLM and TTS pipelines like #Deepgram, #OpenAI GPT-4o and

I'm fixing #aiocoap's memory leak tests to finally run as async functions: the original tests employed mechanisms from the age of tulip (back when asyncio was developed out-of-tree), and Python 3.14 dropping some obsolete mechanisms.
Good riddance, but also tough work fixing subtle possible leaks that are suddenly easier to discover.

Älskar felmeddelanden i Windows. På en svensk installation får jag följande felmeddelande. Nån som kan gissa vad det betyder (jag fårstår åtkomst nekad), men det kyrilliska/arabiska? #powerbi #python #felmeddelande

#SlowHorses
🤝
#Python

The #python library that we #qemu developers use for the test harness. Now with support for 3.14. Useful for deep tinkerers: https://pypi.org/proje…

qemu.qmp
QEMU Monitor Protocol library

#Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by #WebAssembly
https://wasmer.io/posts/python-on-the-

#TIL
#Python :python: #Flask web development detail:
If you change data in a nested structure in your `session` object you might need to set
`session.modified = True`.
(I took me q…

No kto by pomyślał, że tworzenie języka programowania, w którym można szybko tworzyć, wdrażać i porzucać mnóstwo paczek mogłoby doprowadzić do czegoś takiego…
"Forking confusing: Vulnerable Rust crate exposes #uv #Python packager"

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.

📊 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.

I've filed a report about a minor problem with a #Python package, namely that the source distribution contained some trailing junk that breaks GNU #tar. On one hand, I'm happy that upstream took the issue seriously. On the other hand, I'm terrified of how much #AI slop was involved in the response.
I mean, my short bug report yielded a few walls of text of #LLM analysis of what the cause of the problem might be, of suggested solutions… and praise of the author's fix. These are interspersed with short comments from the author, all pasted under their own personal account. And the linked pull request is also huge, with "verification code" that's quite sloppy (bits that don't do anything, conditions that will never be true… but at least it seems to do what it was supposed to do).
Honestly, I don't know what to do. Not that I ever planned using this package, but at this point I will definitely stay away from it. It's in #Gentoo, and I'll have to continue maintaining it for the sake of reverse dependencies, but I feel like it's unfair to expose our users to packages that have clearly proven to accept AI slop without reviewing it properly. Or rather, AI slop that's being reviewed… by AI. How can anyone think this a good idea?!
There were multiple times in my life when I've considered retiring from Gentoo, for variety of reasons. There were also multiple times when I wanted to get away from computers altogether. Unfortunately, we're living in a truly fucked up world, and there is no escape. The best you can do is put an ever increasing effort to keep fixing all that crap that will just keep piling on faster and faster.
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource

LWN: Explicit lazy imports for #Python
I'm VERY excited by this PEP.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1041120/d969b8b8c72251be/

The #Python documentary is really heartwarming for me. I got more distant from the community since ~2011, but both the language and the community still have a special place in my heart, and it's awesome to see how it grows.
https://www.

🛠️ Fully #opensource #Python framework you can self-host or deploy to LiveKit Cloud with one CLI command. 🐙 https://github.com/livekit/agents

Years ago I had this Processing app that I used to create time stamped images from a webcam. It no longer works. (It’s been years since I used it.)
I was able to rewrite what I need in Python fairly easily, so that’s pretty awesome.
I used to really love Processing but I guess I love Python now.
#processing

Many of you already heard about this new algo that's faster than Dijkstra ( #python

Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths
We give a deterministic $O(m\log^{2/3}n)$-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition model. This is the first result to break the $O(m+n\log n)$ time bound of Dijkstra's algorithm on sparse graphs, showing that Dijkstra's algorithm is not optimal for SSSP.

Whats the replacement for crypt in python? I want to crypt a known string just like /etc/shadow/ so I can verify my students set the username/pw correctly as requested in a lab. I was using this code (image) but looks like crypt.crypt isn't there in Python3.13. Looks like my code doesn't work like it did last semester. Oops. #python3

> Czysty #Python.
Zagląda do środka.
> Wpisany do pliku Pythona kod maszynowy, uruchamiany przez ctypes.
https://github.com/flababah/cpuid.py/blob/master/cpuid.p…

Bravo #Python Software Foundation!
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html

I think my code would work perfectly except that os.utime does not actually work...
#python #code #programming

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 #Python package switched #PEP517 backend and published an incomplete source distribution.

Hi Pythonistas! Previously, I was able to use the Trove classifier
Private :: Do Not Upload
to prevent packages from being accidentally uploaded to PyPI. Is there a similar option with the PEP 639 licence expression?
@… #Python

💻 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!

SO many #Python frens that I see wayyy too rarely in less than 2mins 💔😭
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6G_QIu7Im4

PythonBPF - Writing #eBPF Programs in Pure #Python
https://xeon.me/gnome/pythonbpf/

Here are some key takeaways from implementing #PyPI attestations in #Gentoo:
• With OpenPGP, you need to validate the authenticity of a key. With attestations, you need to validate the authenticity of the identity (i.e. know the right GitHub repository). No problem really solved here.
• They verify that the artifact was created by the Continuous Deployment workflow of a given repository. A compromised workflow can produce valid attestations.
• They don't provide sufficient protection against PyPI being compromised. You can't e.g. detect whether new releases weren't hidden.
On the plus side, TOFU is easier here: we don't have to maintain hundreds of key packages, just short URLs on top of ebuilds.
Security-wise, I think PEP 740 itself summarizes it well in the "rationale and motivation" section. To paraphrase, maintainers wanted to create some signatures, and downstreams wanted to verify some signatures, so we gave them some signatures.
#security #Python

and then it all breaks down #coding #programming #javascript #python

O, fajno. Wygląda na to, że do wsparcia Pythona 3.14 w #Django w #Gentoo brakowało tylko jednej łatki. I działa!
#Python

1. "It's just two pipelines with awk, and a comm, I'll write it in POSIX #shell."
2. "Hmm, need some error handling too."
3. "Oh wait, there is no PIPESTATUS in POSIX shell? How are you supposed to check the pipeline for errors?!"
4. "Eff it, I'll just use #Python."
Just a regular day in #Gentoo.

hot take: a big reason for the collective anxiety around free-threading is the result of decades of copium where we assured each other that it's good, actually, that #Python has a bad threading story, because threads are dAnGeRoUs and our feeble minds need protection

1. "To tylko dwa potoki z awkiem, i jeden mały comm, powłoka POSIX doskonale się nada."
2. "Hmm, teraz muszę dołożyć obsługę błędów."
3. "Co, nie ma PIPESTATUS? To jak sprawdzić stan potoku?!"
4. "Walić to, użyję Pythona."
Zwykły dzień w #Gentoo.
#Python

The latest uv release (0.8.13) introduced the experimental uv format. It calls Ruff’s formatter to automatically style your code: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/15017. And you can use [tool.ruff] for both entry points.

Add an experimental `uv format` command by zanieb · Pull Request #15017 · astral-sh/uv
As a frontend to Ruff's formatter. There are some interesting choices here, some of which may just be temporary: We pin a default version of Ruff, so uv format is stable for a given uv version...

> Pure #Python.
Looks inside.
> Inline machine code ran via ctypes.
https://github.com/flababah/cpuid.py/blob/master/cpuid.py

Oh nice, I see that #Django 5.2.7 was missing only one patch for #Python 3.14 support in #Gentoo. Now in!

Remember the package that recently had some trailing junk in the .tar.gz that broke GNU tar, and replied to my bug report with a comprehensive #LLM analysis and a slightly sloppy release checking workflow?
They've made a new release and this time the source distribution is completely broken gzip stream.
Honestly, bumping #Python packages for #Gentoo all these years, I don't recall ever seeing a problem with gzip streams. And then, #autobahn starts using #ClaudeCode heavily, and two bad releases in a row. I can't help but consider the project compromised at this point.
#NoAI #AI

WTF?!
Not only plain insulting, but looks like complete #AI #slop. I guess this is the direction where #GitHub is heading.
#Gentoo #Python

Who would have thought that creating a programming language for rapidly developing, deploying and abandoning lots of packages would have lead to this…
"Forking confusing: Vulnerable Rust crate exposes #uv #Python packager"
#RustLang #security

It's time to shame #PDM, the "#Python package and dependency manager", for embracing unethical coding. Also, clearly wasting large amounts energy to make a 4-line change, and get it wrong twice while at it.
(Yes, the "no significant changes" is another fix to the same #LLM coding mistake.)
#AI

I've drafted support for verification of #PyPI provenance for #Gentoo.
You know, the new fancy thing that protects against supply chain attacks on PyPI, and verifies that you're using genuine #GitHub artifacts. Because, you know, GitHub repositories and deployment pipelines are an unlikely attack vector. And you definitely don't need to worry about #Microsoft owning the keys, the repositories and the pipelines at all.
#security #Python #SigStore

🤚 Free Saturday
👉 Saturday spent working on Free Software
Highlights from #Gentoo:
• #Gemato is now compatible with #FreePG and mostly compatible with #SequoiaPGP chameleon.
• Prepared patches to support FreePG and SequoiaPGP chameleon as "gpg" symlink providers.
• #FlexiBLAS is now enabled by default on ~arch.
• Finally finished working on #PkgCheck check for missing #PyPI provenance checks.
• gpy-list-pkg-impls now includes "does this package have tests?" state, can optionally include PythonCompatUpdate results from PkgCheck and output mIRC colors. In other words, our IRC bot will now tell us when dependencies let us port new packages to #Python 3.14, and whether these packages have tests.