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Cult.Repo @cultrepo.bsky.social · Jul 21

Featuring: @mitsuhiko.at @pumpichank.bsky.social @snarky.ca
Drew Houston, Guido van Rossum, Benjamin Peterson, Jessica McKellar, Ken Manheimer, Lambert Meertens, @mariatta.ca @pauleveritt.org ...

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Talk Python Podcast @talkpython.fm · Jul 14

One of the funnest recent episodes is now out with @snarky.ca‬, @willingc.bsky.social, ‪‪@pauleveritt.org‬, @pumpichank.bsky.social, and @mkennedy.codes #python

#513: Stories from Python History

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Stories from Python History

Why do people list to this podcast? Sure, they're looking for technical explorations of new libraries and ideas. But often it's to hear the story behind them. If that speaks to you, then I have the pe...

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · Jul 9

I gotta say, ChatGPT and other LLMs are infinitely better at debugging esoteric computer problems than searching the web, forums, reddit, SO, etc. Case in point: Time Machine was erroring on a particular Dropbox file stored locally, and CGPT helped solve it. Plus it was actually kinda nice!

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Donghee Na @corona10.bsky.social · Jun 16

This announcement comes after several weeks of thoughtful discussion among the SC members. I’d also like to acknowledge and thank my fellow council members, @pumpichank.bsky.social, @gpshead.bsky.social, @pablogsal.com and @emilyemorehouse.bsky.social for their hard work throughout this process.

Donghee Na @corona10.bsky.social · Jun 15

The Python Steering Council is pleased to announce that the Free-Threading project is no longer considered experimental!

discuss.python.org/t/pep-779-cr...

PEP 779: Criteria for supported status for free-threaded Python

Hi Thomas, The Steering Council (SC) approves PEP 779, with the effect of removing the “experimental” tag from the free-threaded build of Python 3.14. Along with this, the SC considers the following...

discuss.python.org

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · Jun 16

While it took much deliberation, it’s decisions like this, and the process leading to it, that make serving on the SC so rewarding. Once again I’m honored to serve with these five fine folks.

Donghee Na @corona10.bsky.social · Jun 15

The Python Steering Council is pleased to announce that the Free-Threading project is no longer considered experimental!

discuss.python.org/t/pep-779-cr...

PEP 779: Criteria for supported status for free-threaded Python

Hi Thomas, The Steering Council (SC) approves PEP 779, with the effect of removing the “experimental” tag from the free-threaded build of Python 3.14. Along with this, the SC considers the following...

discuss.python.org

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · May 30

Uncanny valley x2. I've talked to several plumbers recently whose voicemail goes straight to an AI. They don't tell you they're an AI tho, so after a few Qs & As, I suspect "Dane" and "Madison" of being Not Human. Now I'm trying to trick them without outright accusing.

Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · May 29

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Zoom, Enhance: Asyncio's New Introspection Powers - Pablo Galindo Salgado & Yury Selivanov

YouTube video by PyCon US

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Tania Allard @ixek.bsky.social · May 27

This transition to a Public Benefit Corporation is a huge milestone for us ✨.
I am so excited about the future and the impact we will continue to have on the open source ecosystem.

Quansight @quansight.com · May 27

"Open source should be nurtured and elevated as a public good." - Travis Oliphant

That's why Quansight just became a Public Benefit Corporation, formalizing our commitment to sustainable OSS infrastructure that powers global innovation.

We're in this for the long haul. 🙌 bwnews.pr/3HdvSQ8

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Thomas Wouters @yhg1s.bsky.social · May 27

Use #Python at all? I would like to do a silly thing, which I hope will bring amusement to others as well as me (if it works out).

If you wouldn't mind, please fill out this form, and boost for reach:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Informal Pointless Python Survey

This is an informal, unscientific survey of (sort of) Python questions, with which I'd like to try to make something amusing, maybe something involving families feuding somehow. (I may have been inspi...

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · May 28

Catching up on the PyCon talks I missed. Some are just bananas. @pablogsal.com @lukasz.langa.pl @1st1.dev GvR

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Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk.dev · May 14

WEPs, DEPs, BIPs, DEPs, SKIPs, NEPs, FEPs, SLEPs, AIPs, PEEPs, CEPs, SPECs, TIPs, JEPs, CFEPs, APEs, IPEPs...

Many projects name proposals after PEPs rather than RFCs.

Where did PEPs come from? Here's @pumpichank.bsky.social on the origin!

hugovk.dev/blog/2025/pe...
#Python #PEP #RFC #history

PEPs & Co.

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Cult.Repo @cultrepo.bsky.social · May 18

The trailer for "Python, the Documentary" is here! 🔥🐍

From its humble beginnings in the Netherlands to powering AI at the world’s biggest companies - this is the story of Python.

🎥 The film premiers at @europython.eu in July and will follow on our YouTube channel.

Subscribe to stay updated!

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Cult.Repo @cultrepo.bsky.social · May 18

The full film will feature: @mitsuhiko.at, @pumpichank.bsky.social, @snarky.ca, Drew Houston, Guido van Rossum, Benjamin Peterson, Jessica McKellar, Ken Manheimer, Lambert Meertens, @mariatta.ca, @pauleveritt.org...

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Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · May 6

@thepsf.bsky.social Developers-in-Residence Program now has a landing page! 💜

Today we cover the language runtime and security work, maybe there's a gap in the #Python ecosystem your organization wants to see improved? Let's chat!

#security #opensource #oss

www.python.org/psf/develope...

PSF Developers in Residence

The official home of the Python Programming Language

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Brett Cannon @snarky.ca · May 6

The spec for pylock.toml is up!

packaging.python.org/en/latest/sp...

pylock.toml Specification - Python Packaging User GuideContentsMenuExpandLight modeDark modeAuto light/dark, in light modeAuto light/dark, in dark mode

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · Apr 25

This news just came across the Python forums, where he has much love and support. I haven't seen him in a long while but he was a fellow Release Manager back in the day, and wonderful character and early contributor in the Python world. Send him the best wishes from his Python friends.

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · Apr 9

Clearly I need to come up with *way* more terrible PEP ideas.

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · Apr 9

I was asking it for the git magic to split a directory out into a separate repo. The only thing missing from its response was a "Yo, bro" prefix.

Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · Apr 8

I love it when I ask ChatGPT to give me some commands to do a thing, and it responds with "Let me know if you want a script that can do that. I can hook you up".

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · Apr 1

Better than mine!

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · Apr 1

You never know! 😆

Thanks!

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Python Software Foundation @python.org · Apr 1

BREAKING! Guido van Rossum, the legendary creator of #Python, has officially reinstated himself as Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL).

Feat. Guido van Rossum, @pumpichank.bsky.social, @snarky.ca and @mariatta.ca‬

Stay tuned for the documentary coming this summer!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgxB...

BREAKING: Guido van Rossum Returns as Python's BDFL

YouTube video by Honeypot

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · Mar 11

I doubt Southwest Airlines is here, but I *used* to be a loyal customer. With the announced bag fees and previously announced assigned seat changes, as of today, I'm done. If you want to act like just another airline, that's how I'll treat you.

Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · Feb 28

Okay, before I freak out and delete Firefox everywhere, what's the deal with the new Mozilla terms of service, giving them blanket rights to use that information? Sure seems pretty broad, or at least extremely careless language, for a privacy focused organization.

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · Jan 29

Are you using git connection (pull) for Pages or wrangler to push to CF? Or something else?

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