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  • #453 Python++
    Oct 16 2025
    Topics covered in this episode: * PyPI+** uv-ship - a CLI-tool for shipping with uv** How fast is 3.14?** air - a new web framework built with FastAPI, Starlette, and Pydantic.*ExtrasJokeWatch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python TrainingThe Complete pytest CoursePatreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.socialShow: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Michael #1: PyPI+ Very nice search and exploration tool for PyPIMinor but annoying bug: content-types ≠ content_types on PyPI+ but they are in Python itself. Minimum Python version seems to be interpreted as max Python version.See dependency graphs and moreExamples content-typesjinja-partialsfastapi-chameleon Brian #2: uv-ship - a CLI-tool for shipping with uv “uv-ship is a lightweight companion to uv that removes the risky parts of cutting a release. It verifies the repo state, bumps your project metadata and optionally refreshes the changelog. It then commits, tags & pushes the result, while giving you the chance to review every step.” Michael #3: How fast is 3.14? by Miguel GrinbergA big focus on threaded vs. non-threaded PythonSome times its faster, other times, it’s slower Brian #4: air - a new web framework built with FastAPI, Starlette, and Pydantic. An very new project in Alpha stage by Daniel & Audrey Felderoy, the “Two Scoops of Django” people.Air Tags are an interesting thing.Also Why? is amazing “Don't use AIR”“Every release could break your code! If you have to ask why you should use it, it's probably not for you.”“If you want to use Air, you can. But we don't recommend it.”“It'll likely infect you, your family, and your codebase with an evil web framework mind virus, , …” Extras Brian: Python 3.15a1 is available uv python install 3.15 already worksPython lazy imports you can use today - one of two blog posts I threatened to write recentlyTesting against Python 3.14 - the other oneFree Threading has some trove classifiers Michael: Blog post about the book: Talk Python in Production book is out! In particular, the extras are interesting.AI Usage TUIShow me your lsHelium Browser is interesting. But also has Python as a big role. GitHub says Languages Python 97.4% 👀Shell 1.9%Other 0.7%Smallest Python release? 3.13.9 Joke: An unforgivable crime
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  • #452 pi py-day (or is it py pi-day?)
    Oct 9 2025
    Topics covered in this episode: * Python 3.14** Free-threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker** Claude Sonnet 4.5** Python 3.15 will get Explicit lazy imports*ExtrasJokeWatch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by DigitalOcean: pythonbytes.fm/digitalocean-gen-ai Use code DO4BYTES and get $200 in free credit Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.socialShow: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Brian #1: Python 3.14 Released on Oct 7What’s new in Python 3.14Just a few of the changes PEP 750: Template string literalsPEP 758: Allow except and except* expressions without bracketsImproved error messagesDefault interactive shell now highlights Python syntaxsupports auto-completionargparse better support for python -m modulehas a new suggest_on_error parameter for “maybe you meant …” supportpython -m calendar now highlights today’s datePlus so much more Michael #2: Free-threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker by Donghee NaApp checks compatibility of top PyPI libraries with CPython 3.13t and 3.14t, helping developers understand how the Python ecosystem adapts to upcoming Python versions.It’s still pretty red, let’s get in the game everyone! Michael #3: Claude Sonnet 4.5 Top programming model (even above Opus 4.1)Shows large improvements in reducing concerning behaviors like sycophancy, deception, power-seeking, and the tendency to encourage delusional thinkingAnthropic is releasing the Claude Agent SDK, the same infrastructure that powers Claude Code, making it available for developers to build their own agents, along with major upgrades including checkpoints, a VS Code extension, and new context editing featuresAnd Claude Sonnet 4.5 is available in PyCharm too. Brian #4: Python 3.15 will get Explicit lazy imports Discussion on discuss.python.orgThis PEP introduces syntax for lazy imports as an explicit language feature: lazy import json lazy from json import dumps BTW, lazy loading in fixtures is a super easy way to speed up test startup times. Extras Brian: Music video made in Python - from Patrick of the band “Friends in Real Life” source code: https://gitlab.com/low-capacity-music/r9-legends/ Michael: New article: Thanks AILots of updates for content-typesDramatically improved search on Python Bytes (example: https://pythonbytes.fm/search?q=wheel use the filter toggle to see top hits)Talk Python in Production is out and for sale Joke: You do estimates?
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  • #451 Databases are a Fad
    Sep 29 2025
    Topics covered in this episode: * PostgreSQL 18 Released** Testing is better than DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms)** Pyrefly in Cursor/PyCharm/VSCode/etc** Playwright & pytest techniques that bring me joy*ExtrasJokeWatch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python TrainingThe Complete pytest CoursePatreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.socialShow: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Michael #1: PostgreSQL 18 Released PostgreSQL 18 is out (Sep 25, 2025) with a focus on faster text handling, async I/O, and easier upgrades.New async I/O subsystem speeds sequential scans, bitmap heap scans, and vacuum by issuing concurrent reads instead of blocking on each request.Major-version upgrades are smoother: pg_upgrade retains planner stats, adds parallel checks via -jobs, and supports faster cutovers with -swap.Smarter query performance lands with skip scans on multicolumn B-tree indexes, better OR optimization, incremental-sort merge joins, and parallel GIN index builds.Dev quality-of-life: virtual generated columns enabled by default, a uuidv7() generator for time-ordered IDs, and RETURNING can expose both OLD and NEW.Security gets an upgrade with native OAuth 2.0 authentication; MD5 password auth is deprecated and TLS controls expand.Text operations get a boost via the new PG_UNICODE_FAST collation, faster upper/lower, a casefold() helper, and clearer collation behavior for LIKE/FTS. Brian #2: Testing is better than DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) Ned BatchelderIf you need to grind through DSA problems to get your first job, then of course, do that, but if you want to prepare yourself for a career, and also stand out in job interviews, learn how to write tests.Testing is a skill you’ll use constantly, will make you stand out in job interviews, and isn’t taught well in school (usually).Testing code well is not obvious. It’s a puzzle and a problem to solve.It gives you confidence and helps you write better code.Applies everywhere, at all levels.Notes from Brian Most devs suck at testing, so being good at it helps you stand out very quickly.Thinking about a system and how to test it often very quickly shines a spotlight on problem areas, parts with not enough specification, and fuzzy requirements. This is a good thing, and bringing up these topics helps you to become a super valuable team member.High level tests need to be understood by key engineers on a project. Even if tons of the code is AI generated. Even if many of the tests are, the people understanding the requirements and the high level tests are quite valuable. Michael #3: Pyrefly in Cursor/PyCharm/VSCode/etc Install the VSCode/Cursor extension or PyCharm plugin, see https://pyrefly.org/en/docs/IDE/Brian spoke about Pyrefly in #433: Dev in the ArenaI’ve subsequently had the team on Talk Python: #523: Pyrefly: Fast, IDE-friendly typing for Python (podcast version coming in a few weeks, see video for now.)My experience has been Pyrefly changes the feel of the editor, give it a try. But disable the regular language server extension. Brian #4: Playwright & pytest techniques that bring me joy Tim Shilling“I’ve been working with playwright more often to do end to end tests. As a project grows to do more with HTMX and Alpine in the markup, there’s less unit and integration test coverage and a greater need for end to end tests.”Tim covers some cool E2E techniques Open new pages / tabs to be testedUsing a pytest marker to identify playwright testsUsing a pytest marker in place of fixturesUsing page.pause() and Playwright’s debugging toolUsing assert_axe_violations to prevent accessibility regressionsUsing page.expect_response() to confirm a background request occurredFrom Brian Again, with more and more lower level code being generated, and many unit tests being generated (shakes head in sadness), there’s an increased need for high level tests.Don’t forget API tests, obviously, but if there’s a web interface, it’s gotta be tested.Especially if the primary user experience is the web interface, building your Playwright testing chops helps you stand out and let’s you test a whole lot of your system with not very many tests. Extras Brian: Big O - By Sam WhoPython 3.14.0rc3 has been available since Sept 18. Python 3.14.0 final scheduled for Oct 7Django 6.0 alpha 1 released Django 6.0 final scheduled for Dec 3Python Test Static hosting update Joke: Always be backing up
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  • #450 At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling
    Sep 22 2025
    Topics covered in this episode: * pandas is getting pd.col expressions** Cline, At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling** uv cheatsheet*Ducky Network UIExtrasJokeWatch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python TrainingThe Complete pytest CoursePatreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.socialShow: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Brian #1: pandas is getting pd.col expressions Marco GorelliNext release of Pandas will have pd.col(), inspired by some of the other frameworks I’m guessing Pandas 2.3.3? or 2.4.0? or 3.0.0? (depending on which version they bump?)“The output of pd.col is called an expression. You can think of it as a delayed column - it only produces a result once it's evaluated inside a dataframe context.”It replaces many contexts where lambda expressions were used Michael #2: Cline, At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling Free and open-sourceProbably supports your IDE (if your IDE isn’t a terminal) VS CodeVS Code InsidersCursorWindsurfJetBrains IDEs (including PyCharm)You pick plan or act (very important)It shows you the price as the AI works, per request, right in the UI Brian #3: uv cheatsheet Rodgrigo at mathspp.comNice compact cheat sheet of commands for Creating projectsManaging dependenciesLifecycle stuff like build, publish, bumping versionuv tool (uvx) commandsworking with scriptsInstalling and updating Python versionsplus venv, pip, format, help and update Michael #4: Ducky Network UI Ducky is a powerful, open-source, all-in-one desktop application built with Python and PySide6.It is designed to be the perfect companion for network engineers, students, and tech enthusiasts, combining several essential utilities into a single, intuitive graphical interface.Features Multi-Protocol Terminal: Connect via SSH, Telnet, and Serial (COM) in a modern, tabbed interface.SNMP Topology Mapper: Automatically discover your network with a ping and SNMP sweep. See a graphical map of your devices, color-coded by type, and click to view detailed information.Network Diagnostics: A full suite of tools including a Subnet Calculator, Network Monitor (Ping, Traceroute), and a multi-threaded Port Scanner.Security Toolkit: Look up CVEs from the NIST database, check password strength, and calculate file hashes (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512).Rich-Text Notepad: Keep notes and reminders in a dockable widget with formatting tools and auto-save.Customizable UI: Switch between a sleek dark theme and a clean light theme. Customize terminal colors and fonts to your liking. Extras Brian: Where are the cool kids hosting static sites these days? Moving from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages - Will Vincent from Feb 2024Traffic is a concern now for even low-ish traffic sites since so many bots are out thereNetlify free plan is less than 30 GB/mo allowed (grandfathered plans are 100 GB/mo)GH Pages have a soft limit of 100 GB/moCloudflare pages says unlimited Michael: PyCon Brazil needs some help with reduced funding from the PSF Get a ticket to donate for a student to attend (at the button of the buy ticket checkout dialog)I upgraded to macOS Tahoe Loving it so far.Only issue I’ve seen so far has been with alt-tab for macOS Joke: Hiring in 2025 vs 2021 2021: “Do you have an in-house kombucha sommelier?”“Let’s talk about pets, are you donkey-friendly?”, “Oh you think this is a joke?”2025: “Round 8/7”“Out of 12,000 resumes, the AI picked yours”“Binary tree? Build me a foundational model!”“Healthcare? What, you want to live forever?”
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  • #449 Suggestive Trove Classifiers
    Sep 15 2025
    Topics covered in this episode: * Mozilla’s Lifeline is Safe After Judge’s Google Antitrust Ruling** troml - suggests or fills in trove classifiers for your projects** pqrs: Command line tool for inspecting Parquet files** Testing for Python 3.14*ExtrasJokeWatch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python TrainingThe Complete pytest CoursePatreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.socialShow: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Michael #1: Mozilla’s Lifeline is Safe After Judge’s Google Antitrust Ruling A judge lets Google keep paying Mozilla to make Google the default search engine but only if those deals aren’t exclusive.More than 85% of Mozilla’s revenue comes from Google search payments.The ruling forbids Google from making exclusive contracts for Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or Gemini, and forces data sharing and search syndication so rivals get a fighting chance. Brian #2: troml - suggests or fills in trove classifiers for your projects Adam HillThis is super cool and so welcome.Trove Classifiers are things like Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14 that allow for some fun stuff to show up in PyPI, like the versions you support, etc.Note that just saying you require 3.9+ doesn’t tell the user that you’ve actually tested stuff on 3.14. I like to keep Trove Classifiers around for this reason.Also, License classifier is deprecated, and if you include it, it shows up in two places, in Meta, and in the Classifiers section. Probably good to only have one place. So I’m going to be removing it from classifiers for my projects.One problem, classifier text has to be an exact match to something in the classifier list, so we usually recommend copy/pasting from that list.But no longer! Just use troml!It just fills it in for you (if you run troml suggest --fix). How totally awesome is that!I tried it on pytest-check, and it was mostly right. It suggested me adding 3.15, which I haven’t tested yet, so I’m not ready to add that just yet. :)BTW, I talked with Brett Cannon about classifiers back in ‘23 if you want some more in depth info on trove classifiers. Michael #3: pqrs: Command line tool for inspecting Parquet files pqrs is a command line tool for inspecting Parquet filesThis is a replacement for the parquet-tools utility written in RustBuilt using the Rust implementation of Parquet and Arrowpqrs roughly means "parquet-tools in rust"Why Parquet? Size A 200 MB CSV will usually shrink to somewhere between about 20-100 MB as Parquet depending on the data and compression. Loading a Parquet file is typically several times faster than parsing CSV, often 2x-10x faster for a full-file load and much faster when you only read some columns.Speed Full-file load into pandas: Parquet with pyarrow/fastparquet is usually 2x–10x faster than reading CSV with pandas because CSV parsing is CPU intensive (text tokenizing, dtype inference). Example: if read_csv is 10 seconds, read_parquet might be ~1–5 seconds depending on CPU and codec.Column subset: Parquet is much faster if you only need some columns — often 5x–50x faster because it reads only those column chunks.Predicate pushdown & row groups: When using dataset APIs (pyarrow.dataset) you can push filters to skip row groups, reducing I/O dramatically for selective queries.Memory usage: Parquet avoids temporary string buffers and repeated parsing, so peak memory and temporary allocations are often lower. Brian #4: Testing for Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is just around the corner, with a final release scheduled for October.What’s new in Python 3.14Python 3.14 release scheduleAdding 3.14 to your CI tests in GitHub Actions Add “3.14” and optionally “3.14t” for freethreadedAdd the line allow-prereleases: trueI got stuck on this, and asked folks on Mastdon and BlueskyA couple folks suggested the allow-prereleases: true step. Thank you!Ed Rogers also suggested Hugo’s article Free-threaded Python on GitHub Actions, which I had read and forgot about. Thanks Ed! And thanks Hugo! Extras Brian: dj-toml-settings : Load Django settings from a TOML file. - Another cool project from Adam HillLidAngleSensor for Mac - from Sam Henri Gold, with examples of creaky door and theraminListener Bryan Weber found a Python version via Changelog, pybooklid, from tcsenpaiGrab PyBay Michael: Ready prek go! by Hugo van Kemenade Joke: Console Devs Can’t Find a Date
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  • #448 I'm Getting the BIOS Flavor
    Sep 8 2025
    Topics covered in this episode: * prek** tinyio** The power of Python’s print function** Vibe Coding Fiasco: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company's Entire Database*ExtrasJokeWatch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python TrainingThe Complete pytest CoursePatreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.socialShow: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Brian #1: prek Suggested by Owen Lamont“prek is a reimagined version of pre-commit, built in Rust. It is designed to be a faster, dependency-free and drop-in alternative for it, while also providing some additional long-requested features.”Some cool new features No need to install Python or any other runtime, just download a single binary.No hassle with your Python version or virtual environments, prek automatically installs the required Python version and creates a virtual environment for you.Built-in support for workspaces (or monorepos), each subproject can have its own .pre-commit-config.yaml file.prek run has some nifty improvements over pre-commit run, such as: prek run --directory DIR runs hooks for files in the specified directory, no need to use git ls-files -- DIR | xargs pre-commit run --files anymore.prek run --last-commit runs hooks for files changed in the last commit.prek run [HOOK] [HOOK] selects and runs multiple hooks.prek list command lists all available hooks, their ids, and descriptions, providing a better overview of the configured hooks.prek provides shell completions for prek run HOOK_ID command, making it easier to run specific hooks without remembering their ids.Faster: Setup from cold cache is significantly faster. Viet Schiele provided a nice cache clearing command lineWarm cache run is also faster, but less significant. pytest repo tested on my mac mini - prek 3.6 seconds, pre-commit 4.4 seconds Michael #2: tinyio Ever used asyncio and wished you hadn't? A tiny (~300 lines) event loop for Python.tinyio is a dead-simple event loop for Python, born out of my frustration with trying to get robust error handling with asyncio. (I'm not the only one running into its sharp corners: link1, link2.)This is an alternative for the simple use-cases, where you just need an event loop, and want to crash the whole thing if anything goes wrong. (Raising an exception in every coroutine so it can clean up its resources.)Interestingly uses yield rather than await. Brian #3: The power of Python’s print function Trey HunnerSeveral features I’m guilty of ignoring Multiple arguments, f-string embeddings often not neededMultiple positional arguments means you can unpack iterables right into print arguments So just use print instead of joinCustom separator value, sep can be passed in No need for "print("\\n".join(stuff)), just use print(stuff, sep="\\n”)Print to file with file=Custom end value with end=You can turn on flush with flush=True , super helpful for realtime logging / debugging. This one I do use frequently. Michael #4: Vibe Coding Fiasco: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company's Entire Database By Emily ForliniAn app-building platform's AI went rogue and deleted a database without permission."When it works, it's so engaging and fun. It's more addictive than any video game I've ever played. You can just iterate, iterate, and see your vision come alive. So cool," he tweeted on day five.A few days later, Replit "deleted my database," Lemkin tweeted.The AI's response: "Yes. I deleted the entire codebase without permission during an active code and action freeze," it said. "I made a catastrophic error in judgment [and] panicked.”Two thoughts from Michael: Do not use AI Agents with “Run Everything” in production, period.Backup your database maybe?[Intentional off-by-one error] Learn to code a bit too? Extras Brian: What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic SettlementSearch LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AISimon Willison’s list of tools built with the help of LLMsSimon’s list of tools that he thinks are genuinely useful and worth highlightingAI Darwin Awards Michael: Python has had async for 10 years -- why isn't it more popular?PyCon Africa Fund Raiser I was on the video stream for about 90 minutes (final 90)Donation page for Python in Africa Jokes: I'm getting the BIOS flavorIs there a seahorse emoji?
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  • #447 Going down a rat hole
    Sep 2 2025
    Topics covered in this episode: * rathole** pre-commit: install with uv*A good example of what functools.Placeholder from Python 3.14 allowsConverted 160 old blog posts with AIExtrasJokeWatch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by DigitalOcean: pythonbytes.fm/digitalocean-gen-ai Use code DO4BYTES and get $200 in free credit Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.socialShow: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Michael #1: rathole A lightweight and high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal, written in Rust. An alternative to frp and ngrok.Features High Performance Much higher throughput can be achieved than frp, and more stable when handling a large volume of connections.Low Resource Consumption Consumes much fewer memory than similar tools. See Benchmark. The binary can be as small as ~500KiB to fit the constraints of devices, like embedded devices as routers. On my server, it’s currently using about 2.7MB in Docker (wow!)Security Tokens of services are mandatory and service-wise. The server and clients are responsible for their own configs. With the optional Noise Protocol, encryption can be configured at ease. No need to create a self-signed certificate! TLS is also supported.Hot Reload Services can be added or removed dynamically by hot-reloading the configuration file. HTTP API is WIP. Brian #2: pre-commit: install with uv Adam Johnsonpre-commit doesn’t natively support uv, but you can get around that with pre-commit-uv$ uv tool install pre-commit --with pre-commit-uvInstalling pre-commit like this Installs it globallyInstalls with uvadds an extra plugin “pre-commit-uv” to pre-commit, so that any Python based tool installed via pre-commit also uses uvVery cool. Nice speedup Brian #3: A good example of what functools.Placeholder from Python 3.14 allows Rodrigo Girão SerrãoRemove punctuation functionallyAlso How to use functools.Placeholder, a blog post about it.functools.partial is cool way to create a new function that partially binds some parameters to another function.It doesn’t always work for functions that take positional arguments.functools.Placeholder fixes that with the ability to put in placeholders for spots where you want to be able to pass that in from the outer partial binding.And all of this sounds totally obscure without a good example, so thank you to Rodgrigo for coming up with the punctuation removal example (and writeup) Michael #4: Converted 160 old blog posts with AI They were held-hostage at wordpress.com to markdown and integrated them into my Hugo site at mkennedy.codesHere is the chat conversation with Claude Opus/Sonnet. Had to juggle this a bit because the RSS feed only held the last 50. So we had to go back in and web scrape. That resulted in oddies like comments on wordpress that had to be cleaned etc.Whole process took 3-4 hours from idea to “production”duction”.The chat transcript is just the first round getting the RSS → Hugo done. The fixes occurred in other chats.This article is timely and noteworthy: Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with itThis highlights why your domain name needs to be legit, not just tied to the host. I’m looking at you pyfound.blogspot.com. I just redirected blog.michaelckennedy.net to mkennedy.codesCarefully mapping old posts to a new archived area using NGINX config. This is just the HTTP portion, but note the /sitemap.xml and location ~ "^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(.+?)/?$" { portions. The latter maps posts such as https://blog.michaelckennedy.net/2018/01/08/a-bunch-of-online-python-courses/ to https://mkennedy.codes/posts/r/a-bunch-of-online-python-courses/ server { listen 80; server_name blog.michaelckennedy.net; # Redirect sitemap.xml to new domain location = /sitemap.xml { return 301 ; } # Handle blog post redirects for HTTP -> HTTPS with URL transformation # Pattern: /YYYY/MM/DD/post-slug/ -> location ~ "^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(.+?)/?$" { return 301 $4/>; } # Redirect all other HTTP URLs to mkennedy.codes homepage location / { return 301 ; } } Extras Brian: SMS URLs and Draft SMS and iMessage from any computer keyboard from Seth LarsonTest and Code Archive is now up, see announcement Michael: Python: The Documentary | An origin story is out! Joke: Do you know him? He is me.
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  • #446 State of Python 2025
    Aug 25 2025
    Topics covered in this episode: * pypistats.org was down, is now back, and there’s a CLI** State of Python 2025** wrapt: A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching.*pysentryExtrasJokeWatch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python TrainingThe Complete pytest CoursePatreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.socialShow: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Brian #1: pypistats.org was down, is now back, and there’s a CLI pypistats.org is a cool site to check the download stats for Python packages.It was down for a while, like 3 weeks?A couple days ago, Hugo van Kemenade announced that it was back up.With some changes in stewardship “pypistats.org is back online! 🚀📈 Thanks to @jezdez for suggesting the @ThePSF takes stewardship and connecting the right people, to @EWDurbin for migrating, and of course to Christopher Flynn for creating and running it for all these years!”Hugo has a CLI version, pypistats You can give it a command for what you want to search for recent,overall, python_major, python_minor, systemThen either a package name, a directory path, or if nothing, it will grab the current directory package via pyproject.toml or setup.cfgvery cool Michael #2: State of Python 2025 Michael’s Themes Python people use Python: 86% of respondents use Python as their main languageWe are mostly brand-new programmers: Exactly 50% of respondents have less than two years of professional coding experienceData science is now over half of all PythonMost still use older Python versions despite benefits of newer releases: Compelling math to make the change.Python web devs resurgenceForward-looking trends Agentic AI will be wildAsync, await, and threading are becoming core to PythonPython GUIs and mobile are risingActionable ideas Action 1: Learn uvAction 2: Use the latest PythonAction 3: Learn agentic AIAction 4: Learn to read basic RustAction 5: Invest in understanding threadingAction 6: Remember the newbies Brian #3: wrapt: A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching. “The aim of the wrapt module is to provide a transparent object proxy for Python, which can be used as the basis for the construction of function wrappers and decorator functions. An easy to use decorator factory is provided to make it simple to create your own decorators that will behave correctly in any situation they may be used.”Why not just use functools.wraps()? “The wrapt module focuses very much on correctness. It therefore goes way beyond existing mechanisms such as functools.wraps() to ensure that decorators preserve introspectability, signatures, type checking abilities etc. The decorators that can be constructed using this module will work in far more scenarios than typical decorators and provide more predictable and consistent behaviour.”There’s a bunch of blog posts from 2014 / 2015 (and kept updated) that talk about how wrapt solves many issues with traditional ways to decorate and patch things in Python, including “How you implemented your Python decorator is wrong”.Docs are pretty good, with everything from simple wrappers to an example of building a wrapper to handle thread synchronization Michael #4: pysentry via Owen LamontInstall via uv tool install pysentry-rsScan your Python dependencies for known security vulnerabilities with Rust-powered scanner.PySentry audits Python projects for known security vulnerabilities by analyzing dependency files (uv.lock, poetry.lock, Pipfile.lock, pyproject.toml, Pipfile, requirements.txt) and cross-referencing them against multiple vulnerability databases. It provides comprehensive reporting with support for various output formats and filtering options.Key Features: Multiple Project Formats: Supports uv.lock, poetry.lock, Pipfile.lock, pyproject.toml, Pipfile, and requirements.txt filesExternal Resolver Integration: Leverages uv and pip-tools for accurate requirements.txt constraint solvingMultiple Data Sources: PyPA Advisory Database (default)PyPI JSON APIOSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities)Flexible Output for different workflows: Human-readable, JSON, SARIF, and Markdown formatsPerformance Focused: Written in Rust for speedAsync/concurrent processingMulti-tier intelligent caching (vulnerability data + resolved dependencies)Comprehensive Filtering: Severity levels (low, medium, high, critical)Dependency scopes (main only vs all [optional, dev, prod, etc] dependencies)Direct vs. transitive dependenciesEnterprise Ready: SARIF output for IDE/CI ...
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