Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Wow, this is... not how to respond when someone points out that your benchmarks are misleading:

https://github.com/samuelcolvin/pydantic/pull/1568

I am happy to announce the 0.2.0 release of backports.zoneinfo — a backport of Python 3.9's `zoneinfo` module to Python 3.6+, including support for PyPy!

Now you have no excuses to start replacing your old time zone libraries with zoneinfo!

https://pypi.org/project/backports.zoneinfo/

#python

"This might be a contender for one of the most obscure bugs I've seen." -@jaraco, on a bug triggered under *very* specific conditions (including the user's last name...)

https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2129#issuecomment-635266616

One or more birds is loudly singing outside my window right now (01:37 local time).

Is this a sign of an impending earthquake, or did they just stumble on an old Pepsi warehouse or something?

Signal using spaced repetition to force you to remember the new mandatory PIN is basically just a website that disables copy-paste in disguise.

Oh wow, I didn't know that if you want to prevent os.walk from walking a specific subdirectory, you can modify the list of directory names it returns in place: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19859907

Not the most intuitive way to accomplish this, but definitely useful.

This Back to the Future Delorean is clearly depicting the scene in BTTF 1 where Doc and Marty are testing the time machine, but it's already been modified as a flying car! There isn't even a Mr. Fusion.

HAVE YOU NO REGARD FOR CANON, PLAYMOBIL?

Now that I have a nice microphone on a fancy boom arm, it is clearly time to start a podcast.

I'm thinking maybe a review podcast where I watch every episode of Tayo the Little Bus.

Anyone know how much data processing is done in the #entomology world? What, if anything, is the common software stack? How do entomologists use computers?

Just came across this article on realpython.org about working with datetimes.

Unusually for articles of this genre, I actually agree with most/all of the recommendations I read (doesn't hurt that they linked to 4 of my blog posts... 😛):

https://realpython.com/python-datetime/

Test & Code 111: Subtests in Python with unittest and pytest with @pganssle

https://t.co/5Dkus9CqRc

What are subtests?
Why you might want them?
What should you watch out for if you decide to use them? https://twitter.com/brianokken/status/1256638539246104576

Little known fact: before their company pivoted, the supercomputer in Westworld Season 3 was designed to generate new episodes of Gilmore Girls.

‍@brianokken on episode 102 of @testandcode: "Oh totally, I would not read something that had 'Enterprise' in the title."

Sick burn on @mhashemi 🔥

Most of you just know me as a fan of chiptune music, but did you know I also do #python programming?

I've just had my first PEP accepted to the Python language! PEP 615, to add IANA time zone support to the standard library:

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/thread/MDR2FL66R4T4VSLUI5XRFFUTKD43FMK4/

PEP 615: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0615/

Harumph. I'm supposed to be sad right now because so many of my friends are leaving #pycon, not sad because I haven't seen them in so long. This is the wrong kind of sad!

If anyone has opinions about ZoneInfo equality and hash behavior, now is the time to make your voice heard: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-615-support-for-the-iana-time-zone-database-in-the-standard-library/3468/60