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How to improve Python packaging, or why fourteen tools are at least twelve too many
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#programming#blog#pypa
·chriswarrick.com·
How to improve Python packaging, or why fourteen tools are at least twelve too many
Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition!
Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition!

It turns out that Unicode support in Terminals is a lot more difficult than it first appears. A quick overview of special support for Unicode characters in Terminals:

  • "Wide" or "Fullwidth" characters, particularly for East Asian languages and emojis, are codepoints that occupy two cells in a terminal instead of one.
  • "Zero" width combining characters used in languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, or Hindi do not occupy any cells themselves; instead, they modify the previous character.
  • "Zero Width Joiner" (ZWJ U+200D) reduces and combines many codepoints into a single emoji. This is similar to combining, but encoded in a completely different way.
  • "Variation Selector-16" (VS-16 U+FE0F) is a special character that, for specific "Narrow" emojis consuming one cell, causes them to become "Wide", consuming two cells.
#unicode#terminal#programming#python
·jeffquast.com·
Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition!
Context Free Art
Context Free Art
Context Free is a program that generates images from written instructions called a grammar. The program follows the instructions in a few seconds to create images that can contain millions of shapes.
#art#graphics#programming
·contextfreeart.org·
Context Free Art
Genetic Algorithms for Evolution of QWOP Gaits
Genetic Algorithms for Evolution of QWOP Gaits
QWOP is a browser-based, 2-dimensional flash game in which the player controls an Olympic sprinter competing in a simulated 100-meter race. The goal of the game is to advance the runner to the end of the 100-meter race as quickly as possible using the Q, W, O, and P keys, which control the muscles in the sprinters legs. Despite the game simple controls and straightforward goal, it is renowned for its difficulty and unintuitive gameplay. In this paper, we attempt to automatically discover effective QWOP gaits. We describe a programmatic interface developed to play the game, and we introduce several variants of a genetic algorithm tailored to solve this problem. We present experimental results on the effectiveness of various representations, initialization strategies, evolution paradigms, and parameter control mechanisms.
#game#gaming#programming#paper
·arxiv.org·
Genetic Algorithms for Evolution of QWOP Gaits
My User Experience Porting Off setup.py
My User Experience Porting Off setup.py
There seems to be a lot of confusion around setup.py and friends; and while I’ve seen pushback against this post (mostly sniffy gatekeeper stuff rather than helpful feedback), it’s a worthwhile read if only because the confusion is real.
#programming#python
·gregoryszorc.com·
My User Experience Porting Off setup.py
Why (Python) type hinting sucks
Why (Python) type hinting sucks
I don’t agree with the post - type hinting is awesome in my experience - but it’s a cleverly-crafted argument and there’s some interesting debate in the comments.
#python#programming
·reddit.com·
Why (Python) type hinting sucks