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
Brett Cannon
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