Dispelling Information Asymmetry
Tim Peters' take on his suspension from CPython development.
Rye and uv: August is Harvest Season for Python Packaging
Blog post about the state of Python packaging in 2024, with a particular emphasis on how uv is going (and in part rye too).
Statically Typed Functional Programming with Python 3.12
One person's adventutes in functional programmming in Python.
A Retrospective on Requests
As per the title: a retrospective of requests.
Possibly killer quote: "After receiving our first security disclosure, I was told that Requests wasn't a serious project but instead one person's art project and thus we shouldn't fix the vulnerability. This was despite the project being touted as being used by multiple international government agencies, political campaigns, and boasting about it's #1 download spot on PyPI. So when I say it might be artful, I'm trying to take a neutral stance on what is art and what isn't art and whether the internals of Requests are actually beautiful art."
How to improve Python packaging, or why fourteen tools are at least twelve too many
"Join me on a journey through packaging in Python and elsewhere. We’ll start by describing the classic packaging stack (involving setuptools and friends), the scientific stack (with conda), and some of the modern/alternate tools, such as Pipenv, Poetry, Hatch, or PDM. We’ll also look at some examples of packaging and dependency-related workflows seen elsewhere (Node.js and .NET). We’ll also take a glimpse at a possible future (with a venv-less workflow with PDM), and see if the PyPA agrees with the vision and insights of eight thousand users."
Python Packaging, One Year Later: A Look Back at 2023 in Python Packaging
Annotating args and kwargs in Python
Useful blog post that goes over the best ways to type *args and **kwargs in Python.
Basic introduction to Pydantic
Nice little introduction to what Pydantic offers.
A year of building for the terminal on Hacker News
Textualize devlog blog post on Hacker News; of course with the usual collection of very Hacker News replies along the way.
Musings on Python Type Hints
As a huge fan of type hinting in Python, I feel this is a good article introducing the sorts of things you should think about, and the benefits you should derive from using type hints.