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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 2h

Due to the laziness of reversed(), if we were to pass it lots of items (say 100,000 items) we won't end up copying the iterable that we gave it. Read more �‘‰ https://trey.io/ur7l4g #Python

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 4h

Not just on newer versions, but all supported versions since Python 2.7 and 3.5 were end-of-life'd in 2020.

If f-strings are valid Python syntax, dictionaries are ordered.

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 15h

I guess it's October because this office hour was scary... 👻

We discussed:

• Infinitely recursive data structures 🧟
• __new__ vs. metaclass's __call__ vs. class decorators vs. function with __mro_entries__ 👹
• ways to create a context manager 🔮
• pth files 🧌
• modifying sys.path in PYTHONSTARTUP 🦹🏻

Trey Hunner @trey.io · 17h

My #Python office hours start in less than 1 hour.

It's casual and you can participate as much or as little as you like.

Come as you are and hopefully you'll learn something by the end.

Python Morsels Office Hours

Join Trey for 13 weekly office hour sessions. Free for everyone!

pym.dev

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 1d

If you had the ability to run some Python code in every Python REPL launched on your machine what would it do? (Automagically available PyPI dependencies are allowed)

Asking for someone who just realized they are not yet heavily overusing their PYTHONSTARTUP file. (me)

All ideas welcome.

#Python

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 1d

You're welcome! Thanks for another great talk.

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 1d

A great talk by @attacus.net from this year's #PyConAU

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

"Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Reality" - Lilly Ryan (PyCon AU 2025)

YouTube video by PyCon AU

youtu.be

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 1d

You can now install 3.14.0 from uv or pyenv. If you have either on your machine, install #Python 3.14 and try it out!

Here are my favorite features, summarized in a 6 minute video/article.

Python 3.14's best new features

Python 3.14 includes syntax highlighting, improved error messages, enhanced support for cocurrency and parallelism, t-strings and more!

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 2d

When we use comprehensions our code looks like the data structure that we're trying to create. Read more �‘‰ https://trey.io/aeo9fg #Python

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 2d

Prefer to read instead of watch a video?

I just published an article version of that screencast also (with screenshots to show off the color 🎨):

pym.dev/python314/

Python 3.14's best new features

Python 3.14 includes syntax highlighting, improved error messages, enhanced support for cocurrency and parallelism, t-strings and more!

www.pythonmorsels.com

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 2d

Python 3.14 is now out! 🐍🥧🎉

My favorite new features include:

• All the color (REPL & PDB syntax highlighting, argparse help, unittest, etc.)
• pathlib's copy & move methods
• date.strptime
• uuid7
• argparse choice typo suggestions
• t-strings
• concurrent subinterpreters
• import tab completion

Python 3 14's best new features

YouTube video by Python Morsels

youtu.be

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 3d

Just watched the 2023 updated version of Everything is a Remix. Each version of this I've seen has been better than the last one.

www.everythingisaremix.info

Everything is a Remix

Watch the legendary series that reveals how creativity happens. Raise your creative game with tools, techniques and inspiration.

www.everythingisaremix.info

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 3d

Ah since you don't support HTTPS at all, I assume extensions that redirect to SSL versions of sites won't pose a problem. Smart. Thanks!

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 3d

Same number of characters as example.com, but more fun to type!

Example Domain

example.com

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 6d

List comprehensions create a new list, and since we've embedded a comprehension within a comprehension, this code creates a list-of-lists Read more �‘‰ https://trey.io/aeo9fg #Python

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 7d

My #Python office hours this week start in 20 minutes: pym.dev/office-hours...

Python Morsels Office Hours

Join Trey for 13 weekly office hour sessions. Free for everyone!

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 7d

Very curious to hear whether there's an answer to this one!

I have my own homegrown set of tools for patching stdin in various ways, patching sys.argv, importing a module is if __name__ was __main__, etc.

A single package that can do all that for me would be great.

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 7d

Is there an equivalent of playwright/selenium for CLI tool E2E testing?

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Rachell @rachellcalhoun.bsky.social · 7d

10 years ago I organized my, & the, 1st #DjangoGirls event in Seoul, South Korea: 70/425 applicants accepted, it was a huge success. And was the start of a wonderful decade that launched my #Django community involvement and career. 💻

I feel grateful, proud, and inspired to keep paying it forward.🧡

Screenshot "Rachell Calhoun, October 2, 2015. We kicked off today with installations, wine, photos, and laughs. Thanks to everyone that came out and see you tomorrow! (I'm the 'L'!!!!)." Below this message there are five people waving sparklers spelling out "Seoul" in the dark night outside on a roof.

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PyTexas Foundation @pytexas.org · 9d

Join us next Tuesday for our monthly 📆 meetup! This month we'll be joined by @webology.bsky.social as he shows us how he uses Claude Code 🧑‍💻 to increase his productivity in both his professional and open source projects! 🤩

We hope to see y'all there! Info in the comments

#PyTexas
#python
#Meetup

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 8d

The problem is that we're taking whatever list was passed into our class and we're storing it directly on our class instance. Read more �‘‰ https://trey.io/rbi1o4 #Python

Trey Hunner @trey.io · 8d

Who needs caffeine to wake up when you have adrenaline? 😳

Trey Hunner @trey.io · 8d

Teaching a workshop right now and my computer turned off mid-sentence.

It felt like it may have been overheating so I stuck it in the freezer for a minute and started it up again. 🥶

Never had that happen before.

It's seems to be working... so far? 😅

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 9d

This is an unfortunately annoying ongoing Bluesky-specific issue with the system I use for posting. I may end up reinventing my own wheel to fix it in a few months. 😬

Trey Hunner @trey.io · 9d

The strptime method is being added to the datetime module's date and time classes in Python 3.14 (I've wanted these for YEARS).

It takes someone to champion good ideas.

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