What the PSF Conduct WG does
In the past week I had two people separately tell me what they thought the Python Software Foundation Conduct WG did and both were wrong (and incidentally in the same way). As such,
Python
The Python programming language
Don't return named tuples in new APIs
In my opinion, you should only introduce a named tuple to your code when you're updating a preexisting API that was already returning a tuple or you are wrapping a tuple
State of WASI support for CPython: March 2024
The biggest update since June 2023 is WASI is now a tier 2 platform for CPython! This means that the main branch of CPython should never be broken more than 24 hours for
An experimental pip subcommand for the Python Launcher for Unix
There are a couple of things I always want to be true when I install Python packages for a project:
1. I have a virtual environment
2. Pip is up-to-date
For virtual environments,
My proof-of-concept record type
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