Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

OSS maintainers gotta hustle sometimes...

Is this a bad time to try to introduce my cool new greeting, the "eye five"?

Possibly naïve question, but with universities moving to online-only classes, what are they doing for "wet" lab classes?

Are they just postponed for a semester? (If such a thing happened in my senior year I think it would have seriously messed up my plans...)

I was vaguely hoping I could get the steering council to accept PEP 615 during a DST transition, but I dawdled too long and it won't be ready tonight.

England doesn't start DST until March 29th, Australia's DST ends April 5th, so I guess those are my new goals.

"Hi, I'm calling to report a leap day bug."
"Great! Where at?"
"Well..."
Comms guy: "Paul... The call, it's coming from *inside the Python documentation*"

https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#examples-of-usage-date

PEP 615: Support for the IANA Time Zone Database in the Standard Library

Now available for discussion!

You can read it here: https://t.co/n0eDfoOCnS
And you can comment and review it on the discourse thread: https://t.co/V3jvzkduL5

#python #timezones #datetime #iana https://twitter.com/pganssle/status/1232351405186396162

Here's a #lifehack for those of you who grind your teeth at night: if you can't find your mouth guard, go to sleep eating a lollipop! The stick will keep your teeth apart!

I haven't checked with a dentist but I'm 99% sure this is sound advice.

@toast That's a good principle, but two problems:

1. I think it's very common to do stuff like `from zoneinfo import ZoneFile`, so it should mostly stand on its own.
2. There are other plausible "files" to read from the /usr/share/zoneinfo - zonetab files, leap seconds files, etc. I won't be supporting any of those in the first release, but it still makes sense to make it clear that it's a time zone.

What is your preferred name for a time zone class that works with the /usr/share/zoneinfo files like America/New_York, etc generated from the IANA database (module name is zoneinfo)?

For the #python standard library.

#timezones #programming

Oh boy. Standard library time zone implementation is now passing a lot of tests. Still a bunch of TODO comments and tests to write but I think the API might be close to final.

Looks like it's time to start in on the documentation.😬

#python #timezones #documentation

Interesting little project: parver, for parsing and manipulating PEP 440 version numbers.

https://pypi.org/project/parver/
https://github.com/RazerM/parver

Could be useful if you have scripts to bump your project's version.

The 2020 Python Packaging Summit at #pycon2020 is official! It will be held on April 16th, 2020 at the conference venue.

To read the announcement, register to attend, and suggest topics see https://t.co/f4lQbUQ3qW https://twitter.com/ThePyPA/status/1230141558982311936

If the founding fathers had microcontrollers, I firmly believe they would use them to make chiptune music send tweet.

@alexbuzzbee My understanding is there's a "compile everything into a single file" mode, which is what I was referring to.

Though again I sorta think "Here is a wheel install it with pipx then you can run it" or "install this thing in a virtual env and run it" is not that big a deal.

@alexbuzzbee This is more or less how PyInstaller works, though I will say that you are probably way better off using normal packaging and having people either install your scripts with a system installer or pipx or something.