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Quentin Pradet

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I like maintaining things: the Elasticsearch Python clients by day, urllib3 and trustme by night. I write about #Python, HTTP, async/await, open source and performance! he/him

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Jul 29

I wrote this to share everything I know about building great SDKs! open.substack.com/pub/pragmati...

Building great SDKs

A guide to creating SDKs that devs – and LLMs – will find a breeze to use, plus an overview of modern approaches for building and maintaining SDKs. By veteran SDK engineer, Quentin Pradet

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Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 9d

This post was 5 years in the making, @shazow.net and I made a bet about whether "six", the Python 2/3 compatibility shim, would still be a popular package in 2025:

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Winning a bet about “six”, the Python 2 compatibility shim

Exactly five years ago today Andrey Petrov and I made a bet about whether “six”, the compatibility shim for Python 2 and 3 APIs, would still be in the top 20 daily downloads on PyPI. I said it woul...

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · 16d

Couldn’t agree more! Also the Bluesky automation is fixed 🥳

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Sep 3

Example Discuss thread: discuss.python.org/t/fiscal-pro...

Fiscal projection: PSF will default by 2027 - 50% salary increases, salaries >170.000, multimillion pycon US losses, costly consultancy contracts

Unofficial financial projections based on public documents (tax forms) etc. Thread dedicated purely to fact finding and making financial projections. I suggest to focus only on facts in this thread. ...

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Sep 3

Hey Trey, did you notice your automated Bkuesky posts suffer from encoding issues?

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Cult.Repo @cultrepo.bsky.social · Aug 29

Our Python doc is officially out in the wild! 🐍

Thanks to everyone who joined the premiere 🙌 such a good vibe.

Here’s the link so you can watch it on repeat youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0

Python: The Documentary | An origin story

YouTube video by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot)

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Aug 16

Wow, that sounds nice! I immediately thought about Bluey.

Bluey screenshot where Bandit swings Bingo. The swing is hung on a tree.

Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Aug 12

Since PyCon Africa is affected by the PSF Grants pause, I am hopeful that donation tickets can make a difference.

Ngazetungue Muheue @muheuenga.bsky.social · Jul 29

🎟️ Donation Ticket Now Available!

Support PyCon Africa 2025 by purchasing a Donation Ticket, attend the conference and help us bring more developers from across Africa.
👉 za.pycon.org/tickets
@python.org @za.pycon.org

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Aug 11

Great post! Python supports else in loops, but only if there was no break! It’s terribly confusing: docs.python.org/3/tutorial/c...

4. More Control Flow Tools

As well as the while statement just introduced, Python uses a few more that we will encounter in this chapter. if Statements: Perhaps the most well-known statement type is the if statement. For exa...

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Aug 5

Disqus showing ads on my blog was the last straw for me. I thought about storing comments on GitHub with utterances/giscus, but ended up on Commento. They have a generous free tier, don't track their users, and are trusted by Mozilla. Switching took only 10 minutes!

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Commento

Add comments to your website with Commento. It's fast, modern, and privacy-focused.

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Aug 5

Looks like a much nicer solution than femtocell which is available commercially in France since 2009! korben.info/les-femtocel...

Les Femtocell de SFR mises à mal | Le site de Korben

SFR a mis sur le marché, en 2009, un appareil destiné aux personnes qui captent mal la 3G, de profiter d’un relais local qui fait transiter les ...

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Aug 3

Crafting Interpreters! craftinginterpreters.com

Crafting Interpreters

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Jul 29

You can only read the first two parts if you’re not a paid subscriber, but this companion piece is freely available on my blog: quentin.pradet.me/blog/how-ela...

How Elastisearch and OpenSearch built their SDKs

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Jul 29

I wrote this to share everything I know about building great SDKs! open.substack.com/pub/pragmati...

Building great SDKs

A guide to creating SDKs that devs – and LLMs – will find a breeze to use, plus an overview of modern approaches for building and maintaining SDKs. By veteran SDK engineer, Quentin Pradet

open.substack.com

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Jul 28

À La Réunion on l’appelle de plus en plus l’hexagone, et j’aime bien, c’est court, neutre et efficace.

Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Jul 26

This is a tragedy, but correlation is not causation. Kids roam less and less in the UK (say) despite pedestrian casualties being down.

Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Jul 21

Interesting, thanks! The exit code 120 comes from Python: bugs.python.org/msg284536

Message 284536 - Python tracker

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Jul 4

We care about deepening our understanding of the language, which makes the question and resulting answer indeed very interesting! Thank you

Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Jun 29

> As of August 2024, the new app has a 1.3 point review average on Google Play. In January 2025, Sonos announced the resignation of its CEO Patrick Spence over the app update debacle.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonos

Sonos - Wikipedia

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Jun 23

Wow the packaging tries hard to convey luxury. Also European biscuits is fun. In France where this comes from the packaging is much more… playful

A box of Petit écolier biscuits, as sold in France.

Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Jun 20

Ah, the joys of cross-border rail. Still, thank you for doing this.

Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Jun 18

When in the US I was localized in Hong Kong and now in Reunion Island I was localized in Japan for a few weeks. Got ads in Japanese and even YouTube blocked some videos. Super annoying.

Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Jun 17

J’ai mis du temps à comprendre que ce n’était pas mon téléphone qui avait caché la fin du texte 😅

Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Jun 16

The Python Elasticsearch client works too. I tested it back in December: discuss.elastic.co/t/dec-4th-20...

Dec 4th, 2024: [EN] Does the Elasticsearch Python client work with free-threading Python?

Cet article est disponible en français. In this post, we'll run some experiments to see if the Python Elasticsearch client is compatible with the new Python 3.13 free-threading builds, where the GIL ...

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Jun 16

Exciting! Free-Threading builds are here to stay. The adoption has been incredibly fast so far.

(urllib3 works with free-threading, but still need cryptography to add support before we can test it in CI.)

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...

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Quentin Pradet @quentin.pradet.me · Jun 13

Bluey is thoughtful too!