Topics covered in this episode:

• Leaving the cloud
• PEP 723 - Inline script metadata
• Flet for Android
• harlequin: The SQL IDE for Your Terminal.
• Extras
• Joke

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Michael #1: Leaving the cloud

• Also see Five values guiding our cloud exit
  • We value independence above all else.
  • We serve the internet.
  • We spend our money wisely.
  • We lead the way.
  • We seek adventure.
• And We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit
• Slice our new monster 192-thread Dell R7625s into isolated VMs
• Which added a combined 4,000 vCPUs with 7,680 GB of RAM and 384TB of NVMe storage to our server capacity
• They created Kamal — Deploy web apps anywhere
• A lot of these ideas have changed how I run the infrastructure at Talk Python and for Python Bytes.

Brian #2: PEP 723 - Inline script metadata

• Author: Ofek Lev
• This PEP specifies a metadata format that can be embedded in single-file Python scripts to assist launchers, IDEs and other external tools which may need to interact with such scripts.
• Example:

      # /// script
      # requires-python = ">=3.11"
      # dependencies = [
      #   "requests<3",
      #   "rich",
      # ]
      # ///
  
      import requests
      from rich.pretty import pprint
  
      resp = requests.get("https://peps.python.org/api/peps.json")
      data = resp.json()
      pprint([(k, v["title"]) for k, v in data.items()][:10])
  
  

Michael #3: Flet for Android

• via Balázs
• Remember Flet?
• Here’s a code sample (scroll down a bit).
• It’s amazing but has been basically impossible to deploy.
• Now we have Android.
• Here’s a good YouTube video showing the build process for APKs.

Brian #4: harlequin: The SQL IDE for Your Terminal.

• Ted Conbeer & other contributors
• Works with DuckDB and SQLite
• Speaking of SQLite
  • Jeff Triplett and warnings of using Docker and SQLite in production
  • Anže’s post
  • and and article: Django, SQLite, and the Database is Locked Error

Extras

Brian:

• Recent Python People episodes
  • Will Vincent
  • Julian Sequeira
  • Pamela Fox

Michael:

• PageFind and how I’m using it
• When "Everything" Becomes Too Much: The npm Package Chaos of 2024
• Essay: Unsolicited Advice for Mozilla and Firefox
• SciPy 2024 is coming to Washington

Joke: Careful with that bike lock combination code