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nilearn.bsky.social @nilearn.bsky.social · 5d

did you know that Nilearn optional supports the awesome rich library (h/t @willmcgugan.bsky.social) for prettier logging?

rich.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · 6d

We have a custom framework for testing. Very selenium like, but Textual specific I’m afraid.

textual.textualize.io/guide/testing/

Textual - Testing

Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.

textual.textualize.io

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · 11d

Well all Textual widgets are reusable. so it could be used outside of Toad. And I’d love for it to be used in other tools.

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · 12d

My BMI is now in the healthy range. This deserves a celebration. Cake for breakfast.

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 15d

Coming in Air 0.32, released hopefully tomorrow!

To make reading HTML output easier, we will have features for converting dense HTML to pretty printed HTML!

All credit goes to github.com/tallerasaf for the PR and
@willmcgugan.bsky.social for the rich library its built on.

What browsers see being output from Air, which is HTML with unnecessary whitespace stripped for speed and efficiency.

What developers can see if they so choose. Which is HTML formatted for clarity and highlighted for easier reading.

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · 16d

Put some final touches to Toad's permission request screen.

When the agent has an update, it pops this screen up. You can review the diffs in unified or split view, then decide if you want to accept or reject the changes.

Watch this space!

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · 21d

How’s that work. Do you literary diff the AST then translate that back to the source offsets?

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · 21d

That sounds challenging!

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · 25d

I have spent the last few days implementing a Diif viewer for Toad.

It supports unified and split view diffs, with line-level highlights.

Rather pleased with the results!

#Python #Textual

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · 28d

You can critique art in any way you like. None of his other works would make any sense whatsoever if you take them that literally.

Judges are not actually beating people with gavels. So your interpretation that he is blaming judges isn't even literal.

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · 28d

I feel that's a somewhat surface level appraisal. It could easily be interpreted as the law being used to beat down protestors. Not literal judges.

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Brett Cannon @snarky.ca · Sep 2

If you do decide to vote, please read the candidate details.

If you do read the details, do notice how one stands out.

If you do notice one standing out, do check out how that person is acting on discuss.python.org right now.

If you do all that, then please cast your vote.

Python Software Foundation @python.org · Sep 2

ATTN PSF Voting Members: The 2025 PSF Board election vote is open now until September 16th! If you affirmed your intention to vote in this year's election, or voted last year, you should have an email with voting instructions 🗳️ Learn more on our blog:

Python Software Foundation News

pyfound.blogspot.com

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · Sep 3

There was one nominee statement that gave me the willies.

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · Aug 29

There is a fair bit of overlap there. I suspect Toad will become even more Jupyter like as it progresses!

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · Aug 29

Last year I gave a talk at #PyCon Sweden about one of my pet-projects: rich-click.

The title was "Accidentally popular: Beautiful CLI interfaces with rich-click". I talked about the library, but also the #opensource journey, involving @willmcgugan.bsky.social, @tiangolo.com and Daniel Reeves 😊

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · Aug 29

a man wearing a hat and a tank top is standing in front of a body of water

ALT: a man wearing a hat and a tank top is standing in front of a body of water

media.tenor.com

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · Aug 28

a man in a suit and tie is holding an oscar statue and talking into a microphone .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding an oscar statue and talking into a microphone .

media.tenor.com

Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · Aug 28

I posted about Toad, my agentic coding interface for the terminal. Going to make this a regular-ish thing until the app is solid enough to share.

willmcgugan.github.io/toad-report-1/

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Brett Cannon @snarky.ca · Aug 26

The Python documentary by @cultrepo.bsky.social is going to be debuting live on YouTube on Thursday the 28th at 7pm CET/10am PT! www.youtube.com/@cultrepo

I'll share a link the day before to the doc that will have a countdown to the debut. I'm planning to be in the live chat during the debut.

CultRepo (formerly Honeypot)

🧠 Formerly Honeypot, now independently owned and led by the original team behind the viral tech documentaries 📽️ Documentaries and shorts about the human stories of open source and technology 🌟 Our mi...

www.youtube.com

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · Aug 26

Of course. That’s when I do my best work!

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · Aug 26

Screenshot of Toad, my agentic coding UI.

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Will McGugan @willmcgugan.bsky.social · Aug 25

I've been working on a new fuzzy search file picker for Toad (my terminal AI interface).

It is similar to the other terminal based agentic coding tools, but I want to address a few UX issues, and hopefully make it prettier in the process!

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Python Software Foundation @python.org · Aug 8

Please congratulate our newest PSF Fellow Members for Q2, 2025! Their continued contributions to the Python ecosystem are so very important to our community. #python

Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q2 2025! 🎉

The PSF is pleased to announce its second batch of PSF Fellows for 2025! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q2! The following people continue to do amazing things for the Python community:

pyfound.blogspot.com

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Python Bytes @pythonbytes.fm · Aug 6

Python Bytes 443: Patching Multiprocessing
pythonbytes.fm/episodes/sho... w/ @mkennedy.codes and @brianokken.bsky.social
#Python
- rumdl - markdown linting in Rust
- Coverage 7.10 and subprocess
- aioboto3
- Friends don't let friends create unnecessary Python classes
- PyPI phishing

Patching Multiprocessing

News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Aug 4th, 2025

pythonbytes.fm

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eastmad @eastmad.bsky.social · Aug 3

Not so easy talking about the UI of agentic CLIs running inside a terminal. h/t to @willmcgugan.bsky.social for talking about the issue.

thenewstack.io/user-interfa...

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