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nedbat, 9 hours ago to random

Here's a PDF of the resulting #PyConUS printable schedule, tweaked to avoid the right-hand cutoff: https://static.nedbat.com/PyCon-US-2024.pdf
Four pages, print two-up to get two sheets.

https://mastodon.social/@hugovk/112422128910004621

Kirkman, 15 hours ago to Typography

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.

#typography #roadsigns #highway #travel #missouri

nedbat, 16 hours ago to random

I think I am unreasonably pained when I see an expert not able to communicate well with non-experts. Case in point:
N-E: "What's the difference between wifi and bluetooth?"
E: "Well, they use the same frequencies, but wifi is more powerful."

I don't think that gets at the N-E's perspective at all. :(

nedbat, 19 hours ago to python

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:

Adding more to the board in flexible ways. https://gist.github.com/nedbat/f22b03f70ceb9686881c4bcd442fad11

edrogers, 2 days ago to madisonwi

@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!

https://madpy.com/meetups/2024/5/9/20240509-mastering-pythonic-data-validation-and-transformation-with-pydantic/

nedbat, 5 days ago to random

People in this thread are suggesting other terms besides "slop", but slop works really well because of the parallel to the existing meaning: food that used to be fit for human consumption, but now is just leftover pieces mixed and mashed indiscriminately so that it's used to feed pigs.

https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/112406874796870923

nedbat, 7 days ago to python

You can use Unicode characters in #Python identifiers if they are classified as letter-like, but that doesn't mean that you should!

(Full rules at https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers)

nedbat, 8 days ago to random

Week after next is #PyCon, and we will of course be juggling there!

https://mstdn.social/@RobLudwick/112390675286786576

nedbat, 12 days ago to python

Another #Python sorting tidbit: the key= function can return a tuple. Tuples are sorted lexicographically: by first element and where firsts are equal, by second element, etc.

shac, 13 days ago to python

If #Mojo🔥 can fix #python’s stupid versioning problems then it wins by default.

nedbat, 13 days ago to python

A tidbit: with data in a #Python dict, you can use d.get as a function providing the same mapping. Here we sort the student names by their test scores:

nedbat, 14 days ago to random

I appreciate companies willing to host tech meetups, but do you understand these events are open to the public? "We need your final attendee list a week before the event" doesn't make sense in this context.

nedbat, 14 days ago to random

My test suite has just one dot on the last line. What would you do?

• Delete one test
• Change the width of the terminal
• Keep it as a visceral reminder of the uncomfortably chaotic nature of the universe
• Write more tests

ehmatthes, 15 days ago to random

Python people, do you make short-lived intermediate variables to make your return statements readable?

For example, which of these would you tend to prefer?

def get_project_name(output_str): """Get project name from output of

nedbat, 20 days ago to random

Always good to follow @hugovk 's lead on these things. I adjusted my workflows a little differently: https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/commit/41e01d3ef0f98ec256173fd1864488cc72ab6f73#diff-2dcad576de77b3d5156ec1976a4f88236339c48a6000beda4885b0fe8e3ba006L33-R74

https://mastodon.social/@hugovk/112320493602782374