Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

I'm very happy to announce @savannah as the Release Manager for Python 3.16 and 3.17!
https://discuss.python.org/t/welcome-the-3-16-and-3-17-release-manager-savannah-bailey/100163
#Python #CPython #Python316 #Python317

The Toad is out of the bag! 🛍🐸

Announcing Toad - a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal

https://willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-toad/

#Python #AI

📣 Public Service Announcement to all our Spanish(-speaking) users 🇪🇸

Episodes from Radio Nacional de España cannot be downloaded. RNE decided to block our app specifically.

Journalist @james contacted the Director Radio of RTVE to ask for clarifications. In response, they have said they will 'review our case'. We are yet to receive a reply to the email we sent last week. Keep an eye out for updates on our social media.

Details 👇

https://podnews.net/article/rne-blocks-open-rss

#RNE #OpenPodcasting #PodNews #RTVE

We've got a good-first bug for new contributors to Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1658511

If you're interested in writing a little bit of C++/HTML/JS to make your first contribution, let me know! I'd be happy to guide you through the whole process over chat or video call.

Hey folks! Looking for leads on cheap places to stay in sept in Amsterdam, Berlin and Manchester. Thanks in advance!

Hugo van Kemenade (@hugovk) is a leading voice in the Python community. The projects he maintains are downloaded over 280 million times a month, including libraries used in NASA missions. The interview shows how Hugo's passion for contributions has developed into future-proofing the entire Python ecosystem.

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i’m looking for a word for “person stumbles into attractive nuisance and starts propagating it as the next best practice”

Here's a quick blog post with another recent example why you should run coverage on your tests:

https://hugovk.dev/blog/2025/run-coverage-on-tests/

#Python #tests #coverage

Days since running coverage on tests found a bug in the tests: 0

This time, a generator had already been exhausted, before we tried to iterate over it. The lack of coverage highlighted the problem.

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/8979#discussion_r2172250301

https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201106/running_coverage_on_your_tests.html

#Python #tests #coverage

Several deadlines are approaching for deprecated setuptools features

30th Aug
- bdist_wheel with universal=True

15th Oct
- Running `setup.py test`
- subclassing wheel.bdist_wheel

31st Oct
- Running `setup.py <anything>`
- setuptools.command.easy_install, setuptools.installer, fetch_build_eggs

For more info and migration guidence see
- https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html
- https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/modernize-setup-py-project/

Thanks to PyPA and everyone involved for their dedication and hard slog.

#Python

Are you in Boston and want to hang with #Python people? Boston Python's project & collaboration night is June 24th. It's an informal gathering to talk together, work together, learn from each other, network, whatever. Tell your friends :)

https://www.meetup.com/bostonpython/events/308465972/

The "faster CPython" team at Microsoft was recently dissolved. My position at Microsoft was eliminated. If anyone has a reason to be disappointed in this, it's me.

So it feels okay for me to ask you to refocus any disappointment you might have about Microsoft's decision. Let's be grateful for a big Python user actually laying down meaningful cash for 4 years in support of a volunteer-driven community project! Let's express our frustration instead in how that doesn't happen more often!