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The challenges in designing a library for PEP 425 (aka wheel tags)

01 Jun 2019 9 min read packaging

If you have ever looked at a project that has a lot of wheels [https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/] (like numpy [https://pypi.org/project/numpy/#files]), you may have wondered

Deconstructing xkcd.com/1987/

23 Mar 2019 5 min read Python

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

An update on Python's governance

31 Dec 2018 4 min read open source

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

Setting expectations for open source participation

06 Sep 2018 26 min read open source

(If you would prefer to watch a 30 minute talk on this same content, you can watch my Python US 2018 keynote [https://youtu.be/tzFWz5fiVKU?t=48m55s]) Who am I? [1] To

An approach to lazy importing in Python 3.7

16 Apr 2018 3 min read Python

[Please note that the code in this blog post is now up on PyPI as part of the modutil library [https://pypi.org/project/modutil/]] One of the new features in Python 3.