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
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Next, GitHub will be removing support for Python 2.7 from actions/setup-python in under a month, on 19th June. 🪦
"Breaking changes
"Hello everyone. The Python 2.7.x will be removed from python-versions and it won't be possible to set up Python 2.7.x by setup-python.
"The motivation for the changes
"Python2.7 is not supported since January 1, 2020."
This is the one place where ChatGPT has seemed useful to me, by the way. When I try and use it for anything Python-related, it’s worse than useless because I know Python stuff way better than ChatGPT, and it’s faster for me to just do it myself anyway.
When I’m trying to get a handle on super basic questions, ChatGPT seems to be kind of OK at explaining things in such a way as to unblock me.
Not that I think that there’s something we or they could be doing a ton better. I’m sure there are reasons for why it’s all confusing and disorienting.
Spending time trying to contribute to open source Android applications really brings me a lot of empathy for new Python users.
I barely understand what I’m doing. The packaging ecosystem seems complicated and I don’t understand it. When I try and upgrade versions a bunch of stuff breaks. The documentation refers to a bunch of stuff I don’t understand, and seems relevant only to newer code bases.
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The votes have been counted, announcing the 2022 #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year 
Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Little egret (Egretta garzetta) and Gadwell duck (Mareca strepera) in Taudaha Lake, near Katmandu, Nepal.
Attribution: Prasan Shrestha / CC-BY-SA 4.0
3,600+ voters selected this picture first out of 1,102 featured pictures and 55 other finalists!
See the rest of the results: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2022/Results
Paul Ganssle
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Long shot, but anyone with Android / Android Auto experience know what’s going on here?
Long shot, but anyone with Android / Android Auto experience know what’s going on here?
Paul Ganssle
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I'm over the moon that the #Python helper function I write more than _any_ other, `chunks`, is coming to the stdlib in 3.12 as `itertools.batched(iterable, n)`! It takes a long iterable and yields chucks (or batches) of length `n`.
I think I've pasted the same Stackoverflow snippet into... 10 projects at this point? So this is huge for me.
https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/itertools.html#itertools.batched
Carter’s has this shirt for kids, but I can’t find an adult version anywhere. Trying to tell Amazon or a search engine that it’s important that the shirt have all three colors (much less in a specific order) seems impossible.
One day I hope ML technology advances to the point that I can describe a shirt and find out if someone is selling something like it.
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@mjgardner @icing actually, being liberal in accepting things is not a good idea either. If it violates the protocol, eject, close, kill, abort. At once. That leads to better code and protocols in the longer run.
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Do I know anyone who's worked on budgeting infrastructure projects (physical infrastructure like roads and buildings, not software) who would be open to chatting with me for a short time and answering some questions about terminology used in that context?
Paul Ganssle
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Today's my last day at Google 🥲
I'm taking some time off to focus on my family, personal health, and to work on my bots.
If anyone knows of a role that'll fit me, I'll appreciate the intro! 😊
It’s relatively easy to make a drop-in replacement for these, but also we’re deprecating them because they’re conceptually the wrong thing to do, so it’s best to migrate to using aware datetimes if possible: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2019/11/utcnow.html
datetime.utcnow and datetime.utcfromtimestamp will be deprecated in #python 3.12: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/103857
If you maintain a package, now is probably a good time to grep your source code for utcnow and utcfromtimestamp to get out ahead of the deprecation warnings. 📅🕐
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🇵🇸
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/to_be_wiped status=progress59001459200 bytes (59 GB, 55 GiB) copied, 904 s, 65.3 MB/s
65 MB/s, nice, nice. At this rate it’s only going to take…. 3 days to wipe this 16TB drive.
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You should absolutely include your tests in your coverage measurement.
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202008/you_should_include_your_tests_in_coverage.html
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
