Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
My co-worker: Let me know if you have any questions.
Me: Oh, I have tons! First: would you rather be able to turn people into frogs, or frogs into people?
Paul Ganssle
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Heptapod 0.12.0 has been released earlier this week, featuring a huge #GitLab base version jump and more..
Putting together some notes on subtests: anyone have some particularly good examples? Particularly if you use pytest-subtests.
@AugierLe42e @toast @bitecode It's explained in great detail in that link.
I was not involved in PEP 517/518, but as a maintainer of setuptools trying to migrate people to setup.cfg, I am constantly annoyed by INI files.
There are tons of upsides to putting this entirely new thing (it doesn't replace anything that has ever existed in setup.cfg) in a TOML file. The only downside is "some people might need to add a new file to their projects or rename an existing file." That is not a high price to pay.
@AugierLe42e @bitecode So the suggestion is to invent a new format instead of using a popular, well designed one that solves some of the biggest pain points with the existing configuration?
@AugierLe42e @bitecode
pyproject.toml is not an alternative to setup.py.
There is an extensive discussion of why rejecting setup.cfg in PEP 518: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/#other-file-formats
From my experience writing INI files, they are surprisingly hard to use.
We know there's a lot of competition in this space, and appreciate your continued patronage of dateutil.easter.
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Trying to write a subinterpreter-compatible, subclassable Python C extension type that stores data on the class itself.
@skunksarebetter I randomly generate a short string, different every time I install a new OS.
@toast Indeed, smart enough to organize a world-wide conspiracy to reclaim the world's cities!
Why was "coronavirus disease" shortened to "COVID" and not "CORVID"? I suspect the influence of Big Crow.
unfiltered but probably okay
@offby1 Standard library always works well for me.
@bitecode That's "not even wrong". pyproject.toml and setup.cfg are complements, not competitors.
It's like saying, "You shouldn't use tires, you should use axles!" They serve entirely different purposes.
Paul Ganssle
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74/366 #366Challenge #xp
I read this book this morning. There are a few minor quibbles that I have with it, but otherwise there are a ton of great cases for open borders in here.
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...)
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
