Brett Cannon    I maintain a GitHub Action called check for changed files. For the purpose of this blog post what the action does isn’t important, but the fact that I authored it originally in TypeScript is. See, one day I tried to update the NPM dependencies. Unfortunately, that update broke everything in a

Brett Cannon    After signing up for GitHub Sponsors, I had a nagging feeling that somehow asking for money from other people to support my open source work was inappropriate. But after much reflection, I realized that phrasing the use of GitHub Sponsors as a way to express patronage support and appreciation for

Brett Cannon    The biggest update since June is WASI is now a tier platform for CPython This means that the main branch of CPython should never be broken more than hours for WASI and that a release will be blocked if WASI support is broken. This only applies to

Brett Cannon    There are a couple of things I always want to be true when I install Python packages for a project:I have a virtual environmentPip is up to dateFor virtual environments, you would like them to be created as fast as possible and usually with the newest version of Python.

Brett Cannon    Back in June, I proposed a struct syntax for Python. I shared the post on Mastodon and got some feedback. Afterwards I thought about what I heard and talked it over with some folks. I’ve now coded up a proof of concept to share to get some more feedback from

Brett Cannon    Back in October, I released mousebender . . The biggest change was adding support for PEP which unless you’re running a package index you don’t need to know about it . The other small thing was adding ProjectFileDetails as a union of typed dicts to make

Brett Cannon    In the summer of , my partner was taking her machine learning course as part of UBC’s Key Capabilities in Data Science certificate. I was Andrea’s on call tutor for any Python questions, so while Andrea was listening to lectures I decided to do a small project

Brett Cannon    In my blog post explaining how virtual environments work, I announced my project called microvenv. At the time, my only goal was to create a package which could create virtual environments in a minimal, fast way. But since then, I have expanded the API of the package to provide some

Brett Cannon    I was talking with someone about how Andrea and I have been consciously taking less flights since the pandemic started in order to lower our carbon footprint Take the Jump suggests a flight under km every years, longer than that every years; heard about this from David Suzuki

Brett Cannon    Since people seemed to like my June post on the state of WASI support for CPython, I thought I would do one for another one of my other long gestating projects: coming up with a standardized lock file format for Python packaging. x F A ;When I say lock file

Brett Cannon    When my teammate Courtney evaluated various workflow tools for Python development to see how pip venv compared, she came back with a recommendation on using pip’s requirements files as a way to record what people installed and thus needed to run their code . As someone who prefers to

Brett Cannon    I wanted to give an update on where WASI support for CPython stood today and what I see happening in the future. x F A ;If you don’t know what WASI is or how CPython fits into it, please read my other blog post on WebAssembly platforms.TodayWASI is

Brett Cannon    Story timeWhen I go on vacation with a fellow Python developer, inevitably I will talk about Python. x F ; Back in September, Andrea and I drove the Cabot Trail with our friends Dusty and Jen, which led to a discussion about the match statement and how Dusty and I both

Brett Cannon    In episode of the Changelog podcast entitled, Git with your friends , they discussed various tools involving git disclaimer: I have been on the podcast multiple times and had dinner with the hosts of the podcast the last time they were in Vancouver . Two the projects they discussed

Brett Cannon    Over posts spanning well over years, this is the final post in my blog series on Python’s syntactic sugar. I had set out to find all of the Python . syntax that could be rewritten if you were to run a tool over a single