Python Bytes

Topics covered in this episode:

• * Hatch v1.8*
• svcs: A Flexible Service Locator for Python
• Steering Council 2024 Term Election Results
• Python protocols. When to use them in your projects to abstract and decoupling
• Extras
• Joke

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Michael #1: Hatch v1.8

• Hatch now manages installing Python for you.
• Hatch can build .app and .exe stand-alone binaries for you
• The macOS ones are signed (signed!)
• Discussion here

Brian #2: svcs : A Flexible Service Locator for Python

• Hynek
• A library to help structure and test Python web applications.
• “svcs (pronounced services) is a dependency container* for Python. It gives you a central place to register factories for types/interfaces and then imperatively acquire instances of those types with automatic cleanup* and **health checks.”
• “Benefits:
  • Eliminates tons of repetitive boilerplate code,
  • unifies acquisition* and cleanups of services,
  • provides full static type safety for them,
  • simplifies testing through loose coupling,
  • improves live introspection and monitoring* with **health checks.”
• Hynek has started a YouTube channel, and is starting with an explanation of svcs.
• Yes, Hynek, we want more videos. I like that it’s not a beginner level.
• My request for future videos: just past beginner, and also intermediate level.
• There are plenty of basics videos out there, not as many filling the gaps between beginner and production.

Michael #3: Steering Council 2024 Term Election Results

• The 2024 Term Python Steering Council is:
  • Pablo Galindo Salgado
  • Gregory P. Smith
  • Emily Morehouse
  • Barry Warsaw
  • Thomas Wouters
• Full results are available in PEP 8105 .
• How do you become a candidate?
  • Candidates must be nominated by a core team member. If the candidate is a core team member, they may nominate themselves.

Brian #4: Python protocols. When to use them in your projects to abstract and decoupling

• Carlos Vecina
• “Protocols are an alternative (or a complement) to inheritance, abstract classes and Mixins.”
• Understanding interactions between ABC, MixIns and Protocols in Python
• With examples

Extras

Brian:

• Donations. It’s a decent time of the year to donate to projects that help you
  • Python Software Foundation
  • Django Software Foundation
  • Python Bytes
  • Also, look for “Sponsor this project” links in GitHub for projects you depend on.

Michael:

• Mastodon guidelines (mine):
  • If you have a picture and description, I’ll probably follow you back
  • If you have posts that seem relevant +1
  • If you have a verified webpage +1
  • If your account is private, won’t. I don’t understand really since private group messages already exist and the profile itself is public.
• Speaking of Mastodon. I had a productive conversation with the PSF and others around masks and conferences.
• Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features
  • There was a comment in the above article to the effect of “Once you give your data to a third party (even trusted like Dropbox), you no longer control that data.” That sent me searching and thinking…
  • sync.com? proton drive (discount code)? nextcloud? filen.io? icedrive.net?
  • ownCloud’s recent CVE makes me a bit nervous of self-hosted options.
  • Either way, Cryptomator is very interesting.
• Beyond privacy, this got me thinking, just how many hours of dev time have been diverted to add mediocre-at-best AI features to everything?
• I’m doing a big digital decluttering and have lots to say on that soon.
• Not submitting my talks to PyCascades this year.
• But I did submit 3 talks to PyCon US. ????
• I will be giving the keynote at PyCon Philippines.

Joke: The dream is dead?