Welcome to Pytest-BDD’s documentation! — Pytest-BDD 7.3.0 documentation
A BDD plugin for use with pytest.
Dispelling Information Asymmetry
Tim Peters' take on his suspension from CPython development.
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Instagram scaled from 0 to 14 million users in just over a year, from October 2010 to December 2011. They did this with only 3 engineers.
They did this by following 3 key principles and having a reliable tech stack.
A Complete Guide To Behavior-Driven Testing With Pytest BDD
A comprehensive guide to getting started with BDD testing with pytest.
LaunchFlow - Docs
Another IfC solution; native to Python.
Remove the "Authority" from Packaging - Packaging - Discussions on Python.org
Turns out the A in PyPA, meaning "authority", was originally intended as a joke. TIL.
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).
Three month suspension for a Core Developer
It's good to see that the Python community cares about its CoC.
Senior Software Engineer - D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.
Hey! You! Yes, you! Looking for a senior hacker role? Want to work for the second biggest creator of comics called DC¹? Fancy working in a team and environment that, in my experience, is the nicest group of folk I’ve worked with in the 35 years I’ve been banging on keyboards for money? Think you could cope working with me? (Okay, fine, forget that last part).
Perhaps know someone who might like that?
1: I think. Honestly, I’ve not actually fact-checked that.
Home - Lambda Forge
A tool for quickly building Lambda functions.
Python Software Foundation Code of Conduct - Python Software Foundation Policies
Just like it says on the tin:the code of conduct of the Python Foundation.
wyuenho/emacs-pet: Tracks down the correct Python tooling executables from your virtualenvs so you can glue the binaries to Emacs and delete code in init.el
What looks to be a module for Emacs that helps find the right venv for a project; I think. Saving this to look at at some point in the future.
How boto3 impacts the cold start times of your Lambda functions | tecRacer Amazon AWS Blog
An analysis of how boto3 affects the code start times of AWS Lamdas.
Wrong license · Issue #16 · mdmintz/pynose
This looks like a really great example of not now to handle the licnece of a fork, and also how not to handle the feedback you get when you make such a change.
PEP 2026 – Calendar versioning for Python | peps.python.org
A proposal to change the way that Python's version numbers work.
Boto3 1.34.129 documentation
"You use the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) to create, configure, and manage AWS services, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The SDK provides an object-oriented API as well as low-level access to AWS services."
hissp: It's Python with a Lissp.
Another Lisp in Python.
Statically Typed Functional Programming with Python 3.12
One person's adventutes in functional programmming in Python.
Homoiconic Python - MOHAMMED JAMAL
Those who don't learn Lisp are doomed to reinvent it. Actually, those who do learn list are also doomed to reinvent it too. Here someone sort of reinvents Lisp in Python.
How Python Asyncio Works: Recreating it from Scratch
An approach to explaining Python's asyncio by recreating it from scratch.
PEP 692 – Using TypedDict for more precise **kwargs typing | peps.python.org
PEP for TypeDict and kwargs typing.
pylyzer: A fast static code analyzer & language server for Python
A Python language server written in Rust.
Will's Tweet announcing that I was going to join Textualize
"In a fantasy tech startup, who would you hire?
For me it would be @davepdotorg and @mathsppblog
But it's no fantasy. Dave and Rodrigo will be starting at Textualize. They will be helping me build Textual. The TUI framework for #Python that will eat some of the browser's lunch."
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 Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))
This page has two purposes: to describe how to implement computer language interpreters in general, and in particular to build an interpreter for most of the Scheme dialect of Lisp using Python 3 as the implementation language. I call my language and interpreter Lispy (lis.py). Years ago, I showed how to write a semi-practical Scheme interpreter Java and in in Common Lisp). This time around the goal is to demonstrate, as concisely and simply as possible, what Alan Kay called "Maxwell's Equations of Software."
A Deep Dive into the SIGTTIN / SIGTTOU Terminal Access Control Mechanism in Linux
Useful deep dive into all the issues relating to job control and how it affects a running process.
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
Pydvice: An attempt at bringing (defadvice ...) from Elisp to Python
An implementation of Emacs Lisp's defadvice, for Python.
Sadly thr library itself is very old (14 years old at the time of recording this), and only for Python 2. There is, however, a PR in the repo that makes it work with Python 3.
How We Executed A Critical Supply Chain Attack On Pytorch
"Four months ago, Adnan Khan and I exploited a critical CI/CD vulnerability in PyTorch, one of the world’s leading ML platforms. Used by titans like Google, Meta, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin, PyTorch is a major target for hackers and nation-states alike.
Thankfully, we exploited this vulnerability before the bad guys.
Here is how we did it."