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Topics covered in this episode: Syntax Error #11: Debugging Python umami and umami-analytics pytest-suite-timeout Listmonk and (py) listmonk Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Brian #1: Syntax Error #11: Debugging Python Juhis Issue 11 of a fun debugging newsletter from Juhis Debugging advice mindeset take a break adopt a process talk to a duck tools & techniques print snoop debuggers Django debug toolbar & Kolo for VS Code Michael #2: umami and umami-analytics Umami makes it easy to collect, analyze, and understand your web data — while maintaining visitor privacy and data ownership.

Topics covered in this episode: Leaving the cloud PEP 723 - Inline script metadata Flet for Android harlequin: The SQL IDE for Your Terminal. Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Bright Data : pythonbytes.fm/brightdata Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Michael #1: Leaving the cloud Also see Five values guiding our cloud exit We value independence above all else. We serve the internet. We spend our money wisely. We lead the way. We seek adventure. And We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit Slice our new monster 192-thread Dell R7625s into isolated VMs Which added a combined 4,000 vCPUs with 7,680 GB of RAM and 384TB of NVMe storage to our server capacity They created Kamal — Deploy web apps anywhere A lot of these ideas have chan

Topics covered in this episode: Python 3.13 gets a JIT UniDep - Unified Conda and Pip Dependency Management Don’t Start Pull Requests from Your Main Branch instld: The simplest package management Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Brian #1: Python 3.13 gets a JIT Anthony Shaw Great article that walks through JIT concepts with a small example as if you were writing a parser in Python instead of C. Covers What is a JIT? What is a copy-and-patch JIT? and Why? How does the Python JIT work? Is it faster? This is a building block to future improvements Michael #2: UniDep - Unified Conda and Pip Dependency

Topics covered in this episode: * Hatch v1.8* svcs: A Flexible Service Locator for Python Steering Council 2024 Term Election Results Python protocols. When to use them in your projects to abstract and decoupling Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Michael #1: Hatch v1.8 Hatch now manages installing Python for you. Hatch can build .app and .exe stand-alone binaries for you The macOS ones are signed (signed!) Discussion here Brian #2: svcs : A Flexible Service Locator for Python Hynek A library to help structure and test Python web applications. “svcs (pronounced services) is a dependency container* f

Topics covered in this episode: A Python/Django Advent calendar Dropbase helps you build internal web apps with Python Real-world match/case Extra, extra, extra, so many extras! Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Brian #1: A Python/Django Advent calendar James Bennett’s take on an Advent Calendar “I’m going to try to publish one short blog post each day of Advent 2023, each covering a small but hopefully useful tip or bit of information for Python and/or Django developers” First post also discusses using enums A couple cool testing posts Don’t mock Python’s HTTPX I didn’t know HTTPX had built in trans

Topics covered in this episode: Fixit 2: Meta’s next-generation auto-fixing linter FastUI Mail list / newsletter conversation CLIs from type hints Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Michael #1: Fixit 2: Meta’s next-generation auto-fixing linter via Bart Kappenburg Fixit is dead! Long live Fixit 2 – the latest version of our open-source auto-fixing linter. Fixit provides a highly configurable linting framework with support for auto-fixes, custom “local” lint rules, and hierarchical configuration, built on LibCST. Fixit 2 is available today on PyPI. Created by Meta’s Python Language Foundation team — a hy

Topics covered in this episode: Habits of great software engineers Flask 3.0 Build Conway's Game of Life With Python polars business Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Scout APM Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Brian #1: Habits of great software engineers As we wind up the year, many people are thinking about goals for the new year. Here’s a decent list to think about Focusing beyond the code Efficiency / Antifragility Joy of tinkering Knowing the why Thinking in systems Tech detox The art of approximation Transferring Knowledge to Other Problems Making Hard Things Easy Playing the Long Game Developing a Code Nose Strong Opinions loosely held Michael #2: Flask 3.0 Deprecate the __version__ attribute. Use feature detection, or importlib.m

Topics covered in this episode: The many shapes and sizes of keyboards appeal - a CLI framework from Larry Hastings Graphinate: Data to Graphs A Disorganized List of Maintainer Tasks Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Scout APM Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Michael #1: The many shapes and sizes of keyboards Many keyboards discussed Focus on health and safety (as it should!) I swear by Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic (which wasn’t mentioned) More options still over at Wire Cutter Brian #2: appeal - a CLI framework from Larry Hastings “Give your program APPEAL!” Appeal is a command-line argument processing library for Python, like argparse, optparse, getopt, docopt, Typer, and click. But Appeal takes a refreshing new approach. Hello World example:

Topics covered in this episode: exclude_also with coverage.py Writeside * Extra, extra, extra* Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Scout APM Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Note: No episode next week. Michael will be at Microsoft Ignite in Seattle. Happy Birthday to us (7 years old today)! Brian #1: exclude_also with coverage.py Interesting exchange between Pamela Fox, Hugo van Kemenade, and myself where we all discover exclude_also, even though it’s been there since February This is cool because you can exclude common “should I cover this? It’s just for debugging.” kinda stuff, and other “I don’t wanna test that” places. To exclude code blocks, we can use *# pragma: no cover

Topics covered in this episode: PyCon 2024 is up? Ruff formatter is production ready gil--; Why is the Django Admin “Ugly”? Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Scout APM Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Michael #1: PyCon 2024 is up? May 15 - May 23, 2024 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Conference breakdown: Tutorials: May 15 - 16, 2024 Main Conference and Online: May 17 - 19, 2024 Job Fair: May 19, 2024 Sprints: May 20 - May 23, 2024 Tickets aren’t on sale yet Unfortunately, I’m not going (see health and safety guidelines) Attendance numbers over time on Wikipedia Brian #2: Ruff formatter is production ready We reported the alpha release in September It’s fast, 30x faster than Black Provides >99.9% compatibility with Black, with a list of known

Topics covered in this episode: Django 5.0 beta 1 released git bash, terminals, and Windows Mastering Integration Testing with FastAPI Reuven Learner has been banned for trading in rare animals (Pythons and Pandas) Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Brian #1: Django 5.0 beta 1 released Django 5.0 release notes supports Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12 Facet filters in the admin Simplified templates for form field rendering Database-computed default values Database generated model field More options for declaring field choices More Django news Djangonaut Space now accepting applications for our next contribut

Topics covered in this episode: QuickMacHotKey Things I’ve learned about building CLI tools in Python Warp Terminal (referral code) Python 3.7 EOLed, but I hadn’t noticed Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training Python People Podcast Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Michael #1: QuickMacHotKey This is a set of minimal Python bindings for the undocumented macOS framework APIs that even the most modern, sandboxing-friendly shortcut-binding frameworks use under the hood for actually binding global hotkeys. Thinking of updating my urlify menubar app. Brian #2: Things I’ve learned about building CLI tools in Python Simon Willison A cool Cookiecutter starter project, if

Topics covered in this episode: Psycopg 3 dacite RIP: Fast, barebones pip implementation in Rust Flaky Tests follow up Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Brian #1: Psycopg 3 Psycopg folks recommend starting with 3 for new projects 2 is still actively maintained, but no new features are planned recommend staying with 2 for legacy projects Psycopg 3 project 2 vs 3 feature comparison A few Psycopg 3 highlights native asyncio support native support for more Python types (such as Enums) and PostgreSQL types (such as multirange) Default server-side parameters binding Allows binary parameters and query resu

Topics covered in this episode: 3.12 is out! Trouble with virtualenv caching, a tale of 3.12 update Python Developers Survey 2022 Results Scientific Python Library Development Guide Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Michael #1: 3.12 is out! What’s new PEP 695, type parameter syntax and the type statement PEP 692, using TypedDict to annotate **kwargs PEP 698, typing.override() decorator PEP 701, f-strings in the grammar PEP 684, a unique per-interpreter GIL PEP 669, low impact monitoring Improved ‘Did you mean …’ suggestions for NameError, ImportError, and SyntaxError exceptions PEP 688, using the buff

Topics covered in this episode: logmerger The third and final Python 3.12 RC is out now The Python dictionary dispatch pattern Visualizing the CPython Release Process Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training Python People Podcast Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Brian #1: logmerger Paul McGuire logmerger is a TUI for viewing a merged display of multiple log files, merged by timestamp. Built on textual Awesome flags: --output - to send the merged logs to stdout --start START and --end END start and end time to select time window for merging logs Caveats: new. no pip install yet. so clone the code or download perhaps I jumped the gun on covering this, but it’

Topics covered in this episode: OverflowAI Switching to Hatch Alpha release of the Ruff formatter What is wrong with TOML? Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training Python Testing with pytest, full course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Michael #1: OverflowAI Integration of generative AI into our public platform, Stack Overflow for Teams, and brand new product areas, like an IDE integration. Have a conversation about the search results and proposed answer with GenAI Coming with IDE integration too. Check out the video on their page for some more detail than the article. Brian #2: Switching to Hatch Oliver Andrich Hatch has some interesting features Template built

Topics covered in this episode: Heliclockter - Like datetime, but more timezone-aware Wagtail 5 Git log customization MiniJinja template engine Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training Python People Podcast Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Brian #1: Heliclockter - Like datetime, but more timezone-aware Suggested by Peter Nilsson The library exposes 3 classes: datetime_tz, a datetime ensured to be timezone-aware. datetime_local, a datetime ensured to be timezone-aware in the local timezone. datetime_utc, a datetime ensured to be timezone-aware in the UTC+0 timezone. Michael #2: Wagtail 5 Wagtail is the leading open-source Python CMS, based on Django. Anything you

Topics covered in this episode: mpire mopup - the macOS Python.org Updater Immortal Objects for Python Common Docstring Formats in Python Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Sentry: pythonbytes.fm/sentry Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Michael #1: mpire A Python package for easy multiprocessing, but faster than multiprocessing MPIRE is faster in most scenarios, packs more features, and is generally more user-friendly than the default multiprocessing package. Tons of features. Nice intro article with benchmarks. Brian #2: mopup - the macOS Python.org Updater Glyph Lefkowitz On a mac, install Python with the standard Python.org installer. Then, periodically, update with python3 -m mopup I just did it and went from Python 3.11.4 to 3.11.5 See als

Topics covered in this episode: Make Each Line Count, Keeping Things Simple in Python Parsel A Comprehensive Guide to Python Logging with Structlog Stamina Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Sentry: pythonbytes.fm/sentry Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Brian #1: Make Each Line Count, Keeping Things Simple in Python Bob Belderbos Some great tips to help you simplify your Python code to make it more understandable and maintainable. Michael #2: Parsel Parsel is a BSD-licensed Python library to extract data from HTML, JSON, and XML documents. Parsel lets you extract data from XML/HTML documents using XPath or CSS selectors. It supports: CSS and XPath expressions for HTML and XML documents JMESPath expressions for JSON documents Regular expression

Topics covered in this episode: Omnivore app Djangonaut.space Server-side hot reload Python in Excel Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training Python People Podcast Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Michael #1: Omnivore app Omnivore is the free, open source, read-it-later app for serious readers. Distraction free. Privacy focused. Open source. Designed for knowledge workers and lifelong learners. Save articles, newsletters, and documents and read them later — focused and distraction free. Add notes and highlights. Organize your reading list the way you want and sync it across all your devices. Syncs with popular Personal Knowledge Management systems including Logseq a