Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

New short blog post on the PyPy blog, bit of a PSA: Repeated string concatenation is quadratic on PyPy (and sometimes on CPython)

https://www.pypy.org/posts/2023/01/string-concatenation-quadratic.html

#python #pypy

https://ctgraphy.tumblr.com/post/129031716304/why-you-should-photoshop-your-cosplay-pictures This detailed explanatory blog post is, for me, doing for photography a bit of what Greg Milner's excellent "Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music" https://www.wordyard.com/2010/08/04/perfecting-sound-forever-great-book-on-history-of-recording/ does for audio recording and playback. The author demonstrates and explains, about post-processing manipulation/retouching/editing involving correcting light and color:

"And so that’s what photoshop means 95% of the time. It’s correcting what the camera couldn’t do."

I'm translating an #svg figure for a #Wikipedia article. I have an alignment problem due to the #font being not available everywhere. Is there a way to right-align text boxes independently of the actual font being used? I want them to remain editable as text. I'm using #inkscape.

This is the file's page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HarmCausedByDrugsTable.svg#%7B%7Bint%3Afiledesc%7D%7D
In my browser (Chrome on Ubuntu), the text is misaligned (image 1). Image 2 is the screenshot of the relevant SVG code.

From what I can gather, text-anchor:end is indeed what we want to ensure right-alignment but it's not working. Any idea on how to make this work?

New post:

https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2022/speech-to-text-with-whisper-how-i-use-it-why/

I've started regularly using OpenAI's #Whisper to make transcripts and captions/subtitles, and am writing to share how, and why, and my reflections on the ethics of using it.

A lot of HOWTO in here, but the last section dives into @simon's #ML #machinelearning #AI vegan analogy in a way you might find interesting even if Whisper isn't your thing.

TIL: you can use `shell: python` in GitHub Actions to run #Python code directly
https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/blob/main/.github/workflows/check.yml#L77-L83

I’m happy to announce #Python attrs 22.2.0!

The headline feature is certainly the `alias` argument to fields that allows you to freely set the __init__ name for attributes (e.g. if you don't like attrs's behavior of stripping underscore).

But there's also a lot of under-the-hood improvements around performance and typing.

This is the last version to support Python 3.6. 🫡

https://github.com/python-attrs/attrs/releases/tag/22.2.0

Coverage.py 7.0 has shipped!

The feature change is `report --format`, but the version bumped because you might need to fix some settings.

Let me know if something is truly broken!
https://pypi.org/project/coverage/7.0.0

If anybody wants to contribute to an open source project with more almost 7 million downloads a month, have a look at https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/2753

#tox #opensource

Looks like #Coverage 7 for #python dropped and here's a pro tip:

If you had:

```
[tool.coverage.paths]
source = ["src", ".tox/*/site-packages"]
```

change the second line to:

```
source = ["src", ".tox/**/site-packages"]
```

(or even `source = ["src", ".tox/py*/**/site-packages"]`)

If nothing about this makes sense: https://hynek.me/articles/testing-packaging/