Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

People who cross-post between twitter and mastodon in the browser - what do you use?

I usually cross-post with Twidere from my phone, but if I'm posting from my computer, would be good to be able to cross-post easily.

This post brought to you by excessively deeply-scrubbed and yet still green fingers.

Employees at the company that makes some egg dying kits:

#1: Where should we source the dye?
#2: Maybe we can get surplus dye from those dye packs they use in banks to permanently stain theives?
#1: Won't that stain our customers' hands and clothes?
#2: And the eggs!

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?

Putting together some notes on subtests: anyone have some particularly good examples? Particularly if you use pytest-subtests.

#python

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P.S. The bug that that sometimes summons Lagothroptor the Forgotten has been recently fixed, so don't forget to upgrade!

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https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/easter.html

#easter #python #onlywaytobesure

Trying to write a subinterpreter-compatible, subclassable Python C extension type that stores data on the class itself.

Time to go outside to pick up my laundry...

Why was "coronavirus disease" shortened to "COVID" and not "CORVID"? I suspect the influence of Big Crow.

#wakeupsheeple

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.

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