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Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken. The show is a short discussion on the headlines and noteworthy news in the Python, developer, and data science space.

#411 TLS Client: Hello <<guitar solo>>

November 25, 2024 00:40:03 39.89 MB Downloads: 0
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Michael #1: Talk Python rewritten in Quart

  • Rewrote all of talkpython.fm in Quart (10k lines of code total, 4k changed)
  • Considered
    • FastAPI
    • Litestar
    • Django
    • Hugo Static Site + Python
    • Flask
  • Discussed the multistage upgrade / conversion process
  • Automating tests for all 1,000 pages

Brian #2: PyPI now supports digital attestations

  • Dustin Ingram
  • “Attestations provide a verifiable link to an upstream source repository: By signing with the identity of the upstream source repository, such as in the case of an upload of a project built with GitHub Actions, PyPI's support for digital attestations defines a strong and verifiable association between a file on PyPI and the source repository, workflow, and even the commit hash that produced and uploaded the file. Additionally, publishing attestations to a transparency log helps mitigate against both compromise of PyPI and compromise of the projects themselves.”
  • For maintainers
    • If using GH Actions and Trusted Publishing
      • make sure you use pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish, version v1.11.0 or newer
      • that’s it
    • If not
  • See also

Michael #3: Django Rusty Templates

  • by Lily Foote
  • An experimental reimplementation of Django's templating language in Rust.
  • Goals
    • 100% compatibility of rendered output.
    • Error reporting that is at least as useful as Django's errors.
    • Improved performance over Django's pure Python implementation.

Brian #4: PEP 639 is now supported by PYPI

  • from Brett Cannon
  • PEP 639 – Improving License Clarity with Better Package Metadata
  • For project metadata, use these fields: license and license-files:

  • Examples license field

    [project]
license = "MIT"

[project]
license = "MIT AND (Apache-2.0 OR BSD-2-clause)"

[project]
license = "MIT OR GPL-2.0-or-later OR (FSFUL AND BSD-2-Clause)"

[project]
license = "LicenseRef-Proprietary"

  • Examples of license-files:

    [project]
  license-files = ["LICEN[CS]E*", "AUTHORS*"]

  [project]
  license-files = ["licenses/LICENSE.MIT", "licenses/LICENSE.CC0"]

  [project]
  license-files = ["LICENSE.txt", "licenses/*"]

  [project]
  license-files = []

Extras

Brian:

  • Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await - interesting read from Armin Ronacher about different language abstractions around concurrency.
  • PythonTest.com Discord community is now live
    • Launched last week, as of this morning we’ve got 89 members
    • Anyone already a pythontest community member has received an invite
    • Anyone can join through courses.pythontest.com
  • Everything at pythontest.com is 20% off through Dec with code turkeysale2024
  • “Python Testing with pytest” eBook 40% off through Dec 2, use code turkeysale2024

Michael:

  • Python 3.14.0a2 released
  • Starter packs:
    • Michael’s Python people: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/mkennedy.codes/3lbdnupl26e2x
    • Directory: https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all

Joke: curl - heavy metal style!