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• pip 25.1 has dependency groups, pylock.toml, plus more
• aiohttp goes free threaded
• uv 0.6.15 supports pylock.toml
• Whenever
• Extras
• Joke

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Brian #1: pip 25.1 has dependency groups, pylock.toml, plus more

• post What's new in pip 25.1 - Dependency groups!
• Richard Si
• Discovered this through Hugo van Kemenade

• Dependency groups, PEP 735, supported

  # pyproject.toml
  [dependency-groups]
  test = ["pytest", "pytest-xdist"]
  lint = ["mypy", "isort"]
  # Dependency Groups can include other groups! ✨
  dev = [ {include-group = "test"}, {include-group = "lint"} ]
  

• Package installation progress bar

• Resumable downloads
• Experimental lockfile generation, PEP 751, with pip lock
  • so cool
• pip index versions is stable, no longer experimental
  • use this to get a list of available versions
  • ex: python3 -m pip index versions pytest-check
  • combine with --json to get a nice script readable output

Michael #2: aiohttp goes free threaded

• Thanks to months of consistent contributions by Lysandros Nikolaou, all of the mandatory dependencies of #aiohttp now ship free-threaded variants of #wheels!
• This unlocks the same in aiohttp!

Brian #3: uv 0.6.15 supports pylock.toml

• Discovered through Brett Cannon
• So far, these projects support pylock.toml
  • pip
  • pip-audit
  • pdm
  • uv
• With uv
  • To export a uv.lock to the pylock.toml format,
    • run: uv export -o pylock.toml
  • To generate a pylock.toml file from a set of requirements,
    • run: uv pip compile -o pylock.toml -r requirements.in
  • To install from a pylock.toml file,
    • run: uv pip sync pylock.toml or uv pip install -r pylock.toml

Michael #4: Whenever

• via Pat Decker
• Typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python, available in Rust or pure Python.
• Whenever helps you write correct and type checked datetime code.
• It's also way faster than other third-party libraries—and usually the standard library as well.

Extras

Brian:

• Every UUID

Michael:

• New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot and Cursor: How Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents via Brian Skinn
• And typosquatting in the AI age
• Firefox Send alternatives
  • file.pizza via @rafaelwo
  • bitwarden send

Joke: Can you Vibe?

• Interview with Vibe Coder in 2025
• Senior Engineer tries Vibe Coding

• Huly
• CVE Foundation formed to take over CVE program from MITRE
• drawdb
• 14 Advanced Python Features
• Extras
• Joke

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Michael #1: Huly

• All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)
• If you're primarily interested in self-hosting Huly without the intention to modify or contribute to its development, please use huly-selfhost.
• Manage your tasks efficiently with Huly's bidirectional GitHub synchronization. Use Huly as an advanced front-end for GitHub Issues and GitHub Projects.
• Connect every element of your workflow to build a dynamic knowledge base.
• Everything you need for productive team work: Team Planner • Project Management • Virtual Office • Chat • Documents • Inbox
• Self hosting as a service: elest.io

Brian #2: CVE Foundation formed to take over CVE program from MITRE

• Back story: CVE, global source of cybersecurity info, was hours from being cut by DHS
  • The 25-year-old CVE program, an essential part of global cybersecurity, is cited in nearly any discussion or response to a computer security issue.
  • CVE was at real risk of closure after its contract was set to expire on April 16.
  • The nonprofit MITRE runs CVE on a contract with the DHS.
  • A letter last Tuesday sent Tuesday by Yosry Barsoum, vice president of MITRE, gave notice of the potential halt to operations.
  • Another possible victim of the current administration.
• CVE Foundation Launched to Secure the Future of the CVE Program
  • CVE Board members have spent the past year developing a strategy to transition CVE to a dedicated, non-profit foundation. The new CVE Foundation will focus solely on continuing the mission of delivering high-quality vulnerability identification and maintaining the integrity and availability of CVE data for defenders worldwide.
  • Over the coming days, the Foundation will release more information about its structure, transition planning, and opportunities for involvement from the broader community.

Michael #3: drawdb

• Free and open source, simple, and intuitive database design editor, data-modeler, and SQL generator.
• Great drag-drop relationship manager
• Define your DB visually, export as SQL create scripts
• Or import existing SQL to kickstart the diagramming.

Brian #4: 14 Advanced Python Features

• Edward Li
• Picking some favorites
  • 1. Typing Overloads
  • 2. Keyword-only and Positional-only Arguments
  • 9. Python Nitpicks
    • For-else statements
    • Walrus operator
    • Short Circuit Evaluation
    • Operator Chaining

Extras

Michael:

• Thunderbird send / other firefox things.

Joke: Python Tariffs

• Thanks wagenrace
• Thanks Campfire Tales

• How to Write a Git Commit Message
• Caddy Web Server
• Some new PEPs approved
• juv
• Extras
• Joke

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Brian #1: How to Write a Git Commit Message

• Chris Beams
• 7 rules of a great commit message
  • Separate subject from body with a blank line
  • Limit the subject line to 50 characters
  • Capitalize the subject line
  • Do not end the subject line with a period
  • Use the imperative mood in the subject line
  • Wrap the body at 72 characters
  • Use the body to explain what and why vs. how
• Article also includes
  • Why a good commit message matters
  • Discussion about each of the 7 rules
  • Cool hat tips to other articles on the subject
    • “Keep in mind: This has all been said before.”
    • Each word is a different link.

Michael #2: Caddy Web Server

• via Fredrik Mellström
• Like a more modern NGINX
• Caddy automatically obtains and renews TLS certificates for all your sites.
• Caddy's native configuration is a JSON document.
• Even localhost and internal IPs are served with TLS using the intermediate of a fully-automated, self-managed CA that is automatically installed into most local trust stores.
• Configure multiple Caddy instances with the same storage, and they will automatically coordinate certificate management as a fleet.
• Production-grade static file server.

Brian #3: Some new PEPs approved

• PEP 770 – Improving measurability of Python packages with Software Bill-of-Materials
  • Accepted for packaging
  • Author: Seth Larson, Sponsor Brett Cannon
  • “This PEP proposes using SBOM documents included in Python packages as a means to improve automated software measurability for Python packages.”
• PEP 750 – Template Strings
  • Accepted for Python 3.14
  • Author: Jim Baker, Guido van Rossum, Paul Everitt, Kaudai Aono, Lysandros Nikolaou, Dave Peck
  • “Templates provide developers with access to the string and its interpolated values before they are combined. This brings native flexible string processing to the Python language and enables safety checks, web templating, domain-specific languages, and more.”

Michael #4: juv

• A toolkit for reproducible Jupyter notebooks, powered by uv.
• Create, manage, and run Jupyter notebooks with their dependencies
• Pin dependencies with PEP 723 - inline script metadata
• Launch ephemeral sessions for multiple front ends (e.g., JupyterLab, Notebook, NbClassic)
• Powered by uv for fast dependency management
• Use uvx to run jupyterlab with ephemeral virtual environments and tracked dependencies.

Extras

Brian:

• Status of Python versions
  • new-ish format
  • Use this all the time. Can’t remember if we’ve covered the new format yet.
• See also Python endoflife.date
  • Same dates, very visible encouragement to move on to Python 3.13 if you haven’t already.

Michael:

• Python 3.13.3 is out.
• .git-blame-ignore-revs follow up

Joke: BGPT (thanks Doug Farrell)

• Git Town solves the problem that using the Git CLI correctly
• PEP 751 – A file format to record Python dependencies for installation reproducibility
• git-who and watchgha
• Share Python Scripts Like a Pro: uv and PEP 723 for Easy Deployment
• Extras
• Joke

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Michael #1: Git Town solves the problem that using the Git CLI correctly

• Git Town is a reusable implementation of Git workflows for common usage scenarios like contributing to a centralized code repository on platforms like GitHub, GitLab, or Gitea.
• Think of Git Town as your Bash scripts for Git, but fully engineered with rock-solid support for many use cases, edge cases, and error conditions.
• Keep using Git the way you do now, but with extra commands to create various branch types, keep them in sync, compress, review, and ship them efficiently.
• Basic workflow
  • Commands to create, work on, and ship features.
    • git town hack - create a new feature branch
    • git town sync - update the current branch with all ongoing changes
    • git town switch - switch between branches visually
    • git town propose - propose to ship a branch
    • git town ship - deliver a completed feature branch
• Additional workflow commands
  • Commands to deal with edge cases.
    • git town delete - delete a feature branch
    • git town rename - rename a branch
    • git town repo - view the Git repository in the browser

Brian #2: PEP 751 – A file format to record Python dependencies for installation reproducibility

• Accepted
• From Brett Cannon
  • “PEP 751 has been accepted!
  • This means Python now has a lock file standard that can act as an export target for tools that can create some sort of lock file. And for some tools the format can act as their primary lock file format as well instead of some proprietary format.”
  • File name: pylock.toml or at least something that starts with pylock and ends with .toml
• It’s exciting to see the start of a standardized lock file

Michael #3: git-who and watchgha

• git-who is a command-line tool for answering that eternal question: Who wrote this code?!
• Unlike git blame, which can tell you who wrote a line of code, git-who tells you the people responsible for entire components or subsystems in a codebase.
• You can think of git-who sort of like git blame but for file trees rather than individual files.

And watchgha - Live display of current GitHub action runs by Ned Batchelder

Brian #4: Share Python Scripts Like a Pro: uv and PEP 723 for Easy Deployment

• Dave Johnson
• Nice full tutorial discussing single file Python scripts using uv with external dependencies
• Starting with a script with dependencies.
• Using uv add --script [HTML_REMOVED] [HTML_REMOVED] to add a /// script block to the top
• Using uv run
• Adding #!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script shebang
• Even some Windows advice

Extras

Brian:

• April 1 pranks done well
  • BREAKING: Guido van Rossum Returns as Python’s BDFL
    • including
      • Brett Cannon noted as “Famous Python Quotationist”
      • Guido taking credit for “I came for the language but I stayed for the community”
        • which was from Brett
        • then Brett’s title of “Famous Python Quotationist” is crossed out.
      • Barry Warsaw asking Guido about releasing Python 2.8
        • Barry is the FLUFL, “Friendly Language Uncle For Life “
      • Mariatta can’t get Guido to respond in chat until she addresses him as “my lord”.
      • “… becoming one with whitespace.”
      • “Indentation is Enlightenment”
      • Upcoming new keyword: maybe
        • Like “if” but more Pythonic
        • as in Maybe: print("Python The Documentary - Coming This Summer!")
      • I’m really hoping there is a documentary
• April 1 pranks done poorly
  • Note: pytest-repeat works fine with Python 3.14, and never had any problems
  • If you have to explain the joke, maybe it’s not funny.
  • The explanation
    • pi, an irrational number, as in it cannot be expressed by a ratio of two integers, starts with 3.14159 and then keeps going, and never repeats.
    • Python 3.14 is in alpha and people could be testing with it for packages
    • Test & Code is doing a series on pytest plugins
    • pytest-repeat is a pytest plugin, and it happened to not have any tests for 3.14 yet.
  • Now the “joke”.
    • I pretended that I had tried pytest-repeat with Python 3.14 and it didn’t work.
    • Test & Code: Python 3.14 won't repeat with pytest-repeat
    • Thus, Python 3.14 won’t repeat.
    • Also I mentioned that there was no “rational” explanation.
    • And pi is an irrational number.

Michael:

• pysqlscribe v0.5.0 has the “parse create scripts” feature I suggested!
• Markdown follow up
  • Prettier to format Markdown via Hugo
  • Been using mdformat on some upcoming projects including the almost done Talk Python in Production book. Command I like is mdformat --number --wrap no ./
  • uv tool install --with is indeed the pipx inject equivalent, but requires multiple --with's:
    • pipx inject mdformat mdformat-gfm mdformat-frontmatter mdformat-footnote mdformat-gfm-alerts
    • uv tool install mdformat --with mdformat-gfm --with mdformat-frontmatter --with mdformat-footnote --with mdformat-gfm-alerts
• uv follow up
  • From James Falcon
  • As a fellow uv enthusiast, I was still holding out for a use case that uv hasn't solved. However, after last week's episode, you guys finally convinced me to switch over fully, so I figured I'd explain the use case and how I'm working around uv's limitations.
  • I maintain a python library supported across multiple python versions and occasionally need to deal with bugs specific to a python version. Because of that, I have multiple virtualenvs for one project. E.g., mylib38 (for python 3.8), mylib313 (for python 3.13), etc. I don't want a bunch of .venv directories littering my project dir.
  • For this, pyenv was fantastic. You could create the venv with pyenv virtualenv 3.13.2 mylib313, then either activate the venv with pyenv activate mylib313 and create a .python-version file containing mylib313 so I never had to manually activate the env I want to use by default on that project.
  • uv doesn't have a great solution for this use case, but I switched to a workflow that works well enough for me:
• Define my own central location for venvs. For me that's ~/v
• Create venvs with something like uv venv --python 3.13 ~/v/mylib313
• Add a simple function to my bashrc:
• `workon() { source ~/v/$1/bin/activate } \ so now I can run \workon mylib313orworkon mylib38when I need to work in a specific environment. uv's.python-version` support works much differently than pyenv's, and that lack of support is my biggest frustration with this approach, but I am willing to live without it.
• Do you Firefox but not Zen? You can now make pure Firefox more like Zen’s / Arc’s layout.

Joke: So here it will stay

• See the follow up thread too!
• Also: Guido as Lord Python via Nick Muoh

• mdformat
• pre-commit-uv
• PEP 758 and 781
• Serie: rich git commit graph in your terminal, like magic
• Extras
• Joke

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Brian #1: mdformat

• Suggested by Matthias Schöttle
• Last episode Michael covered blacken-docs, and I mentioned it’d be nice to have an autoformatter for text markdown.
• Matthias delivered with suggesting mdformat
• “Mdformat is an opinionated Markdown formatter that can be used to enforce a consistent style in Markdown files.”
• A python project that can be run on the command line.
• Uses a style guide I mostly agree with.
  • I’m not a huge fan of numbered list items all being “1.”, but that can be turned off with --number, so I’m happy.
  • Converts underlined headings to #, ##, etc. headings.
  • Lots of other sane conventions.
  • The numbering thing is also sane, I just think it also makes the raw markdown hard to read.
• Has a plugin system to format code blocks

Michael #2: pre-commit-uv

• via Ben Falk
• Use uv to create virtual environments and install packages for pre-commit.

Brian #3: PEP 758 and 781

• PEP 758 – Allow except and except* expressions without parentheses
  • accepted
• PEP 781 – Make TYPE_CHECKING a built-in constant
  • draft status
• Also, PEP Index by Category kinda rocks

Michael #4: Serie: rich git commit graph in your terminal, like magic

• While some users prefer to use Git via CLI, they often rely on a GUI or feature-rich TUI to view commit logs.
• Others may find git log --graph sufficient.
• Goals
  • Provide a rich git log --graph experience in the terminal.
  • Offer commit graph-centric browsing of Git repositories.

Extras

Michael:

• Sunsetting Search? (Startpage)
• Ruff in or out?

Joke: Wishing for wishes

• Why aren't you using uv?
• Python Developer Tooling Handbook
• Calling all doc writers: blacken-docs
• Reinventing notebooks as reusable Python programs
• Extras
• Joke

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Michael #1: Why aren't you using uv?

• Fun conversation on X by Armin Ronacher.
• Interesting quotes from the thread
  • I get it replaces pip/pyenv, but should I also use it instead of the built in 'python -m venv .venv'?
  • But I need python installed to make python programs?
  • Because it places the venv in the project folder and I can't run executables from there due to corporate policy. Many such cases. No idea why astral doesn't address this with more urgency.
    • Sounds like a bad corporate policy :)
  • i’m too lazy to switch from pyenv and pip
  • trust issues, what if they do a bait and switch …
  • Because everyone said that about poetry and I'm not sure I'm really ready to get hurt again.
  • Masochism
  • Many times I tried a lot of similar tools and always come back to pip and pip-tools. Them are just work, why should I spend my time for something "cool" that will bring more problems?
  • I tried this week but I was expecting a "uv install requests" instead of "uv add". Switched back to pipenv.
  • we partially use it. will transition when Dependabot support is available.
• I’ll leave it with → Jared Scheel: Seeing a whole lotta Stockholm Syndrome in the replies to this question.

Brian #2: Python Developer Tooling Handbook

• Tim Hopper
• “This is not a book about programming Python. Instead, the goal of this book is to help you understand the ecosystem of tools used to make Python development easier and more productive”
• Covers tools related to packaging, linting, formatting, and managing dependencies.

Michael #3: Calling all doc writers: blacken-docs

• Run black on python code blocks in documentation files
• You can also install blacken-docs as a pre-commit hook.
• It supports Markdown, reStructuredText, and LaTex files.
• Additionally, you can run it on Python files to reformat Markdown and reStructuredText within docstrings.

Brian #4: Reinventing notebooks as reusable Python programs

• marimo allows you to store notebooks as plaintext Python files
• properties
  • Git-friendly: small code change => small diff
  • easy for both humans and computers to read
  • importable as a Python module, without executing notebook cells
  • executable as a Python script
  • editable with a text editor
• Also, … testing with pytest
• “Because marimo notebooks are just Python files, they are interoperable with other tools for Python — including pytest. “
• “Testing cells. Any cell named as test_* is automatically discoverable and testable by pytest. The same goes for any cell that contains only test_ functions and Test classes.”
• “Importantly, because cells are wrapped in functions, running pytest test_notebook.py doesn’t execute the entire notebook — just its tests.”

Extras

Brian:

• PyConUS announces Refund Policy for International Attendees
• New format now live for The Complete pytest Course Bundle and component courses
  • Each course now available separately also
    • pytest Primary Power is 13 lessons, 3.9 hours
    • Using pytest with Projects, 10 lessons, 3.4 hours
    • pytest Booster Rockets, 6 lessons, 1.3 hours of content
  • New format is easier to navigate
  • Better for people who like different speeds. I’m usually a 1.25x-1.5x speed person.
  • Now also with Congratulations! lessons (with fireworks) and printable certificates.

Michael:

• PyCon Taiwan is currently calling for proposals
• HN trends follow up via Shinjitsu

I'm sure some other Hacker News reader has already given you the feedback, but in the unlikely case that they haven't, You read those headlines in this segment exactly wrong.

“Ask HN: Who is hiring?" is a monthly post that asks employers to post about jobs they have available

“Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?” is a monthly topic where they ask people who are looking for jobs to post about themselves in the hope that their skillset it is a good match (and not an LLM generated resume)

So unfortunately your rosy analysis might need a less rosy interpretation.

Joke:

• Top 12 things likely to be overheard if you had a Klingon Programmer
  • From Holgi on Mastodon

• The weird quirk with rounding in Python
• Python interpreter adds tail calls
• Remove punctuation from a string with translate and maketrans
• Extra, extra, extra
• Extras
• Joke

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Brian #1: The weird quirk with rounding in Python

• Tom Nijhof-Verheesb
• With numbers ending in .5, Python always rounds to an even number.
  • round(0.5) → 0
  • round(1.5) → 2
  • etc
• This follows IEEE 754
• You can use decimal if you need a different behavior.

Michael #2: Python interpreter adds tail calls

• Ken Jin, a member of the project, has merged a new set of changes that have been benchmarked as improving performance by 10% for some architectures.
• "Speedup is roughly equal to 2 minor CPython releases worth of improvements. For example, CPython 3.12 roughly sped up by 5%.”

Brian #3: Remove punctuation from a string with translate and maketrans

• Rodrigo
• “Don't use the method replace to remove punctuation from a Python string. Instead, use the method translate.”

Michael #4: Extra, extra, extra

• Animation v Coding, hello world to transformers
• TypeScript rewritten in Go
• Firefox lies
• PyCon’s Startup Row
• Python in Production Book

Extras

Joke: Startrek Testing

• pysqlscribe
• A map of Python
• Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (February 2025)
• The features of Python's help() function
• Extras
• Joke

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Michael #1: pysqlscribe

• A Python library intended to make building SQL queries in your code a bit easier.
• A Query object can be constructed using the QueryRegistry's get_builder featuring a dialect (e.g; "mysql", "postgres", "oracle").

Brian #2: A map of Python

• Cool visualization of dependencies in PyPI packages
• Even cooler visualization (linked from main article)

Michael #3: Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (February 2025)

• Interesting supply and demand comparisons from at least on source.

Brian #4: The features of Python's help() function

• Trey Hunner
• Don’t forget how useful and cool help() is.

Extras

Michael:

• Granian works with FastAPI again

Joke: Computer engineer vs. Geologist

• My 2025 uv-based Python Project Layout for Production Apps
• aiolimiter
• A peek into a possible future of Python in the browser
• Reloadium
• Extras
• Joke

About the show

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• The Complete pytest Course
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Brian #1: My 2025 uv-based Python Project Layout for Production Apps

• Hynek Schlawack
• Discusses uv, a simple pyproject.toml, a simple project layout, and uv.lock as the modern way to ditch requirements.txt files
• This is the starting video in a series, but it’s already very worthwhile

Michael #2: aiolimiter

• An efficient implementation of a rate limiter for asyncio.
• This project implements the Leaky bucket algorithm, giving you precise control over the rate a code section can be entered.

Brian #3: A peek into a possible future of Python in the browser

• a.k.a “Secret SPy Stuff”
• Łukasz Langa
• A peek at SPy, a new language for Python on the web.

Michael #4: Reloadium

• Hot Reloading and Profiling for Python
• If you are a PyCharm user please check out Reloadium plugin
• See also: github.com/mikeckennedy/server-hot-reload

Extras

Brian:

• Making an alternate version of The Complete pytest Course

Michael:

• Book: Zero Day: A Jeff Aiken Novel
• Warp terminal on Windows is out.
• PyCon Ed Summit announced.

Joke: py programmer walks into a bar

• httpdbg
• PyPI Now Supports iOS and Android Wheels for Mobile Python Development
• Arcade Game Platform goes 3.0
• PEP 765 – Disallow return/break/continue that exit a finally block
• Extras
• Joke

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Michael #1: httpdbg

• A tool for Python developers to easily debug the HTTP(S) client requests in a Python program.
• To use it, execute your program using the pyhttpdbg command instead of python and that's it. Open a browser to http://localhost:4909 to view the requests

Brian #2: PyPI Now Supports iOS and Android Wheels for Mobile Python Development

• Sara Gooding
• “the Python Packaging Index (PyPI) has officially begun accepting and distributing pre-compiled binary packages, known as "wheels," for both iOS and Android platforms. “
• Next up, “cibuildwheel Updates Are in Progress to Simplify iOS and Android Wheel Creation”

Michael #3: Arcade Game Platform goes 3.0

• via Maic Siemering
• This is our first major release since 2022.
• It keeps the beginner-friendly API while adding power and efficiency.
• Arcade now supports both standard OpenGL and ShaderToy (www.shadertoy.com) a-shaders through a compatibility layer.
• Since 3.0 is a major release, the full list of changes is over in
• github.com/pythonarcade/arcade/blob/development/CHANGELOG.md

Brian #4: PEP 765 – Disallow return/break/continue that exit a finally block

• Accepted for Python 3.14
• I wouldn’t have thought to do this anyway, but it’s weird, so don’t.
• Will become a SyntaxWarning catchable by running with -We

Extras

Brian:

• Correction: Niki Tonsky was originator of “Pride Versioning”. Thanks Nikita
• Correction: Scheme is actually awesome. Brian is just a curmudgeon
• Also: pytest-rerunfailures is good for exposing flaky tests
• And apparently me being wrong was a great to get at least one person to blog more.
  • Cheers Filip Łajszczak

Michael:

• Tea pot follow up
  • While you're right that some software actually had this implemented, Python does not. It's not an officially accepted HTTP status code, it was proposed in a 'joke' RFC. I guess Python - even though its name comes from the funny TV series Monty Python - is not so funny. httpx, your (or at least -my-) favorite HTTP module for python, does have the I_AM_A_TEAPOT constant.
  • By the way, there are some HTTP status codes that changed their names in RFC 9110, for instance, http.HTTPStatus.UNPROCESSABLE_CONTENT (422, previously UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY)
• Pride follow up fosstodon.org/@kytta/114034442981727301
• Time to upgrade your mini?

Joke: How old is she?

• PEP 772 – Packaging governance process
• Official Django MongoDB Backend Now Available in Public Preview
• Developer Philosophy
• Python 3.13.2 released
• Extras
• Joke

About the show

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Brian #1: PEP 772 – Packaging governance process

• draft, created 21-Jan, by Barry Warsaw, Deb Nicholson, Pradyun Gedam
• “As Python packaging has matured, several interrelated problems with the current way of managing the technical development, decision making and processes have become apparent.”
• “This PEP proposes a Python Packaging Council with broad authority over packaging standards, tools, and implementations. Like the Python Steering Council, the Packaging Council seeks to exercise this authority as rarely as possible; instead, they use this power to establish standard processes.”
• PEP discusses
  • PyPA, Packaging-WG, Interoperability Standards, Python Steering Council, and Expectations of an elected Packaging Council
  • A specification with
    • Composition: 5 people
    • Mandate, Responsibilities, Delegations, Process, Terms, etc.

Michael #2: Official Django MongoDB Backend Now Available in Public Preview

• Over the last few years, Django developers have increasingly used MongoDB, presenting an opportunity for an official MongoDB-built Python package to make integrating both technologies as painless as possible.
• Features
  • The ability to use Django models with confidence. Developers can use Django models to represent MongoDB documents, with support for Django forms, validations, and authentication.
  • Django admin support. The package allows users to fire up the Django admin page as they normally would, with full support for migrations and database schema history.
  • Native connecting from settings.py. Just as with any other database provider, developers can customize the database engine in settings.py to get MongoDB up and running.
  • MongoDB-specific querying optimizations. Field lookups have been replaced with aggregation calls (aggregation stages and aggregate operators), JOIN operations are represented through $lookup, and it’s possible to build indexes right from Python.
  • Limited advanced functionality. While still in development, the package already has support for time series, projections, and XOR operations.
  • Aggregation pipeline support. Raw querying allows aggregation pipeline operators. Since aggregation is a superset of what traditional MongoDB Query API methods provide, it gives developers more functionality.

Brian #3: Developer Philosophy

• by qntm
• Intended as “advice for junior developers about personal dev philosophy”, I think these are just great tips to keep in mind.
• The items
  • Avoid, at all costs, arriving at a scenario where the ground-up rewrite starts to look attractive
    • This is less about “don’t do rewrites”, but about noticing the warning signs ahead of time.
  • Aim to be 90% done in 50% of the available time
    • Great quote: “The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The last 10% of the job takes the other 90% of the time.”
  • Automate good practices
  • Think about pathological data
    • “Nobody cares about the golden path. Edge cases are our entire job.”
    • Brian’s note: But also think about the happy path. Documenting and testing what you think of as the happy path is a testing start and helps others understand your idea of how things are supposed to work.
  • There’s usually a simpler way to write it
  • Write code to be testable
  • It is insufficient for code to be provably correct; it should be obviously, visibly, trivially correct
    • Brian’s note: Even if it’s obviously, visibly, trivially correct, it will still break. So test it anyway.

Michael #4: Python 3.13.2 released

• Python 3.13’s second maintenance release.
• About 250 changes went into this update
• Also Python 3.12.9, Python 3.12’s ninth maintenance release already. Just 180 changes for 3.12, but it’s still worth upgrading.
• For us, it’s simply rebuilding our Docker base (i.e. —no-cache) with these lines:

  RUN curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
  RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache uv venv --python 3.13 /venv
  

Extras

Brian:

• Still thinking about pytest plugins a lot.
• The top pytest plugin list
  • Has been updated for Feb
  • Is starting to include things without “pytest” in the name, like Hypothesis and Syrupy.
    • Eventually I’ll have to add “looking at trove classifiers” as part of the search, but for now, let me know if you’re favorite is missing.
  • Includes T&C podcast episode links if I’ve covered it on the show.
    • There’s 2 so far

Michael:

• There's a new release of PyScript out. All the details are here: Highlight is new PyGame-CE support. Go play!
• PEP 2026 – Calendar versioning for Python rejected. :(
• PEP 759 – External Wheel Hosting withdrawn

Joke:

• Pride Versioning

• content-types package for better MIME types/Content-Type
• Wagtail 6.4
• Build It Yourself
• Build backend popularity over time
• Extras
• Joke

• In memoriam: Michael Foord 1974-2025
• Valkey (Redis Replacement)
• 30 best practices for software development and testing
• mimetype.io
• Extras
• Joke

• LLM Catcher
• On PyPI Quarantine process
• RESPX
• Unpacking kwargs with custom objects
• Extras
• Joke

• Terminals & Shells
• Winloop: An Alternative library for uvloop compatibility with windows
• Ruff & uv
• uv-secure
• Extras
• Joke

• dbos-transact-py
• Typed Python in 2024: Well adopted, yet usability challenges persist
• RightTyper
• Lazy self-installing Python scripts with uv
• Extras
• Joke

• New project to shorten django-admin to django because we are not monsters
• django-unicorn: The magical reactive component framework for Django
• Testing some tidbits
• The State of Python 2024 article
• Extras
• Joke

• jiter
• A new home for python-build-standalone
• moka-py
• uv: An In-Depth Guide
• Extras
• Joke

• Loop targets
• asyncstdlib
• Bagels: TUI Expense Tracker
• rloop: An AsyncIO event loop implemented in Rust
• Extras
• Joke

• Talk Python rewritten in Quart
• PyPI now supports digital attestations
• Django Rusty Templates
• PEP 639 is now supported by PYPI
• Extras
• Joke