Podcast interviews where I talk about Python's governance Over the past two months I have given two podcast interviews where I talk about how we handled Guido's retirement, chose our new governance model, and what being on the inaugural steering council
The challenges in designing a library for PEP 425 (aka wheel tags) If you have ever looked at a project that has a lot of wheels (like numpy), you may have wondered what the part that comes after the project name and version mean. Well,
Deconstructing xkcd.com/1987/ On April 30, 2018, https://xkcd.com/1987/ got published. This wasn't the first time that Randall Munroe posted about Python (probably the most famous comic was his import antigravity one which became
An update on Python's governance This post is meant to act as a summary of the current state of Python's governance as of the end of 2018. If you want to see an alternative take on what I
Setting expectations for open source participation (If you would prefer to watch a 30 minute talk on this same content, you can watch my Python US 2018 keynote) Who am I? [1] To start, I want to provide my
An approach to lazy importing in Python 3.7 [Please note that the code in this blog post is now up on PyPI as part of the modutil library] One of the new features in Python 3.7 is PEP 562 which
What are the most popular Docker images for Python? There was a question at work about what the most popular Docker container image for running Python code was? I didn't have an answer, so I asked on Twitter to see if a
A tutorial on packaging up your Python code for PyPI On Wednesday, October 25th, I gave a workshop at PyLadies Vancouver on how to package up your code and put it up on PyPI. Since this workshop came about by request, I figured
How I manage package version numbers I recently helped someone release their first project on PyPI and I was asked why I did version numbers the way I did, so I figured I would share where my current thinking
Why Competitive Marketplaces Aren’t Always the Best Solution [This was meant to be a contribution to a book collecting chapters on various topics that would help "a programmer who has never been politically active, but is starting to wonder why
Becoming an OSS project maintainer is about trust To gain commit rights on CPython, a pre-existing core developer nominates your for commit rights to python-committers. That nominator lays out roughly why you should be given commit rights, and then promises to
Clarifying PEP 518 (a.k.a. pyproject.toml) I was reading the latest issue of Pycoder's Weekly and they mentioned Thomas Kluyver's pull request to implement PEP 518 in pip. The newsletter linked to the reddit thread announcing the landing of
Designing an async API, from sans-I/O on up While developing the CLA bot for CPython (aka, the Knights Who Say Ni), I decided to make it asynchronous, partially for performance reasons but also because I simply wanted to. 😁 The problem with
Customizing class creation in Python When one thinks of ways of customizing classes at creation time, people probably typically think of metaclasses and class decorators. Metaclasses are at typically viewed as the beginning of class creation while class
How to use your project & Travis to help test Python itself One of the hardest parts of doing a new release of CPython is getting people to test it before the final release goes out. While CPython has a test suite and we try
Don't just open the door, welcome people through it During his PyCon US 2015 keynote, Guido stated that we "[wanted] at least two femail core devs" by PyCon US 2016. Guido, Raymond Hettinger, and myself offered to help mentor women
My experience with type hints and mypy The CLA bot for the PSF is designed defensively because if the bot accidentally lets a pull request through from someone that has not signed the CLA that could lead to legal troubles.
Looking for commonality among HTTP request APIs It all started when ... While developing the CLA bot for Python I realized this might not be the last bot I or anyone else may have to write for helping with CPython's development
My impressions of Elm If you know me or have been reading this blog for a couple of years then chances are you know I'm a programming language nut. I not only believe that being a polyglot
Adding syntax highlighting to Ghost's default theme [This approach as subsequently started to fail for me, so I have switched to the technique outlined for using Prism; it's a bit manual to have to list every language you want highlighted,
Why I changed my blogging platform to Ghost(Pro) I seem to have committal issues when it comes to blogging platforms. I have gone from Blogger, to Svbtle, to Silvrback, and now to Ghost. I initially blogged on Blogger because I wanted
Why I took October off from OSS volunteering On October 1, 2016, I stopped volunteering for open source projects -- including Python -- for a month. While I still did open source work for Python as part of my job, I
What to look for in a new TV I'm kind of an A/V nerd. Now I'm not hardcore enough to have a vinyl collection or have an amp for my TV, but all my headphones cost over $100 and I
Introducing Which Film What I'm announcing Today I'm happy to announce the public unveiling of Which Film! I'll discuss how the site came about and what drives it, but I thought I would first explain what
Network protocols, sans I/O Back in February I started taking a serious look at asynchronous I/O thanks to async/await. One of the things that led to me to looking into this area was when I
