At the same time that bad-faith "pollers" are asking about #PyConUS masking, the attendee survey asks about it as well. But that survey only goes to attendees, meaning people put off by the requirement this year will not be asked. How do we get a complete view of the entire population of potential attendees?
@boxed I'm happy to have an honest discussion. Did you see the poll? It asked a question, then he started abusing people who voted one way. "You are blathering", "that is BS", etc. Then he deleted the poll because it wasn't going his way.
@stevesilberman I hope we can remember that the word autism is broad enough that it also covers people who need their parents to speak for them. This also seems like not so subtle misogyny: why isn't it an autism dad in the picture?
🐍🧪 Python 3.13.0 is due out in October 2024 and work is underway to implement experimental support for PEP 703 "Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython".
As the Steering Council noted in their acceptance of the PEP, to succeed it's important to have community support.
I wrote a little guide on how you can help test out the beta in your project, and help us find bugs in CPython:
@neutrinoceros@hugovk A lot of work has happened that isn't directly related to parallelism (new memory managers, changes to built-in data structures, etc), so testing is very important.
Remember that #Python dicts can have tuples as keys! Consider a dict with (x,y) keys instead of nested lists for a grid. It simplifies sparse grids, "resizes" are automatic, it doesn't matter where (0,0) is, and you can use negative positions:
@freeradical Complex numbers are hashable, and so can be used as dict keys. I never liked that technique though, because it doesn't generalize to more dimensions.
One of my favorite road signs in all of Missouri, seen heading west on Interstate 70 in St. Charles County.
I very seldom drive there, but when I do, I love to startle the rest of my family by saying "Look everyone, we're coming up to Bryan ..." then screaming "ROAD!" at the top of my lungs.
I'm not sure why they decided to make "ROAD" uppercase, but I am forever grateful.
@nedbat Here in #MadisonWI, we were very fortunate to have Sydney Runkle, leading contributor to @pydantic, give a talk at our most recent @madpy meetup. It was a great walk-through of how Pydantic works, and brought out a huge audience of people excited to discuss it
I mention it because she's moving to Boston next week 😢 Wisconsin's loss can be #BostonPython's gain. I highly recommend recruiting her for a talk!