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Podcast interviews where I talk about Python's governance

10 Jun 2019 open source

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

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

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.